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Cathedral of St. John the Divine

St. John the Divine.

Large stone arch supported by falsework at the construction site of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street with wood-encased stone columns in foreground.

IMAGE DATE1904
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine ca. 1904

In competition among most of the leading architects of the day, the magnificent Romanesque Revival scheme of Heins and La Farge was selected for construction of an American cathedral. Only the choir and apse and a rough masonry shell at the crossing were completed when Ralph Adams Cram gained control of the design for the rest of the building, which then was carried out in French Gothic Style.

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