The Monument is a column rising from the center of
Mount Vernon Place. It has a statue of
George Washington at the top. For a few dollars, you can climb to the top and see most of
Baltimore.
One time, I was taking this girl from
DC around
Baltimore when we happened to pass by the Monument. She burst out laughing and said something like "I thought *ours* was
phallic". The one in
DC is indeed
phallic, but the one in
Baltimore is shaped *exactly* like a
penis.
Father Of Our Country, indeed.