Much of the marble for this structure came from Texas, Maryland, a town composed almost entirely of new Irish immigrants. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this structure, whose planned surrounding colonnade was scrapped due to lousy fundraising. Robert Mills designed this structure as well as an earlier structure with the same name in downtown Baltimore.
ANSWER: the Washington Monument
[10h] Description acceptable. During the construction of the Washington Monument, this politically-sensitive object was stolen from the lapidarium in the dead of night. Rumors have it that it was dumped into the Potomac or ground up and used in the monument’s mortar.
ANSWER: the Pope’s stone [accept anything describing a stone donated by the Pope or Pius IX; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] The Pope’s Stone was stolen by members of this minor political party active during the 1850s. A few feet of inferior quality stone that had to be replaced in the final build was contributed by this nativist, anti-Catholic party.
ANSWER: Know-Nothing Party [or Know-Nothings; or Native American Party]
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