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Article: Getting Over This City
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 8, 1988
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JUST HOW high can you go in Washington? I've been riding a lot
of elevators lately to find out. The obvious answer, the Washington
Monument, is wrong, because the National Cathedral, by virtue of
being built on a hill (Mount Saint Albans is higher.
Despite the Cathedral's panoramic splendor, I remain partial to
the Monument. I'm not sure why. One friend insists it's because
there's a strong family resemblance - beanpole must be in the genes.
I think it's because the Monument is deliberately tall, unlike the
Cathedral, which is incidentally tall on its way to becoming gorgeous
and sacred.
Besides, the Monument's observation deck is almost five times as
tall as the Cathedral's - 500 feet ...