Five Years of Glory
The Washington Monument, perhaps the most recognized of the monuments in the capital city, was for five years the tallest building in the world. The feat followed more than 20 years of ignominy when the monument stood as a half finished stump. Mark Twain remarked in 1867 that it looked like a broken chimney. Pigs wallowed at its base as cows and sheep gnawed its grounds. Work resumed on Washington's monument in 1878 and the capstone set in late 1884. In 1889, the monument lost its place as the tallest in the world to the Eiffel Tower.
The stone tower is still the tallest structure in Washington, but neither the monument nor the Capitol building limits the height of the city's buildings.
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