April 1926 Issue [Article] Impatience on a monument Download PDF Adjust Share Sundry observations upon Washington's exotic obelisk by H.G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 19th century Design and construction History Memorials Washington (D.C.) Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) More from H.G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight Jeffersonian simplicity Under the cast-iron dome A study in Congressional Rococo The cut of the jib Adjust Share