Check out this cool proposed design to finish the Washington Monument. Construction didn’t restart on the unfinished monument until 1879 after Congress appropriated another $200,000 to complete it.
Below is one of the proposals on the finished design, from 1877, done by Henry R. Searle.
![Proposed design for the completion of the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/12/31446u.jpg)
Source: Library of Congress