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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1466685" data-attributes="member: 1246">Dec. 6, 1884On this day in 1884, in <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/washington-dc" target="_blank">Washington, D.C.</a>, workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city&#039;s namesake and the nation&#039;s first president, <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/george-washington" target="_blank">George Washington</a>.&nbsp; As early as 1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George Washington, the great <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution" target="_blank">Revolutionary War</a> general, should be placed near the site of the new Congressional building, wherever it might be. After then-President Washington asked him to lay out a new federal capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L&#039;Enfant left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping National Mall (near the monument&#039;s present location).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1466685, member: 1246"] Dec. 6, 1884 On this day in 1884, in [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/washington-dc']Washington, D.C.[/URL], workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/george-washington']George Washington[/URL]. As early as 1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George Washington, the great [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution']Revolutionary War[/URL] general, should be placed near the site of the new Congressional building, wherever it might be. After then-President Washington asked him to lay out a new federal capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L'Enfant left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping National Mall (near the monument's present location). [/QUOTE]

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