Information about the Washington Monument

The Washington monument is 555 feet and 5 1/8 inches tall,and weighs 100,000 tons.While under construction in 1854 the Washington National Monument Society ran out of money after completing only one/third of the monument.When the government took over and  finished the last two/thirds of the monument in 1884 they used marble from a different quarry causing the bottom one/third to differ in color from the top two/thirds