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August 20, 2024

Winning Competition Entry for the Washington Monument by Robert Mills, 1846. Mills’s original proposal called for an obelisk anchored by a circular, Greek-inspired temple at the base. The base was never executed, and the proportions of the obelisk itself were changed when the structure was finally completed nearly four decades after this drawing was produced. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-03714.