Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0382Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the roof of a cathedral as seen from behind a collection of trees. Above the image "40" is printed, below the image "32253 The National Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington, D. C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, MOUNT ST. ALBAN, WASHINGTON, D. C.
On oe fhte cardial features of L'Enfant's original plan for the Federal City, embodied to the desire of Gneral Washington, was a great "church for National purposes." During the first century of the city's existence no step was taken toward carrying out this design. In 1896, however, land for the site of a cathedral "for all people" was purchased at Mount St. Alban, about a mile W. of Rock Creek Park, by the Episcopal Church, the only cathedral building body with a Bishop of Washington. The dedication of the site occurred in 1898, the address being made by President McKinley and the first foundation stone was laid in 1907 in the presence of President Roosevelt. Conceived in the 14th century English Gothic sytle of architecture and designed to become the fourth cathedral in size in the world it has grwon slowly, since it is being built through popular subscriptions. Its total cost is expected to approximate $10,000,000. The Apse, at which we are now looking from the S., containing the "decorated Gothic" Bethlehum Chapel, is finished. The foundations are all laid and work is being prosecuted on the Choir and the Crossing. In te vault beneath the chapel, as a part of what will eventually become the American Westminer Abbey, are already buried the remains of President Wilson, Admiral dewwy, and several other distinguished persons. Mount St. Alban is the highest ground in the city, rising 400 ft. above the Potomac. From its crest, the Cathedral towers and walls, surrounded by beautiful gardens and lesser buildings devoted to ecclesiastical and educational purposes, will dominate the whole panorama of Washington, "a great monument to the glory of God," as eneral Pershing has written of it "and a visible evidence in the capital of the Republic of the fiath of the people in their religious institutions."Collection
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