Archinect - News 2024-12-22T04:37:53-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/120896185/turns-out-the-washington-monument-is-shorter-than-we-thought Turns out the Washington Monument is shorter than we thought Alexander Walter 2015-02-16T15:06:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4e/4eqv14rqggxusrkf.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Using new international measurement standards and technology not available in the past, NOAA&rsquo;s National Geodetic Survey has calculated the official architectural height of the Washington Monument to be 554 feet 7 11/32 inches [...]. Although the newly established architectural height differs from the historical height of 555 feet 5&#8539; inches, neither the starting point nor the so-called &ldquo;standard deviation&rdquo; used for the original 1884 measurement is known [...].</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>