The idea for a sacred home for all Americans in the nation’s capital is as old as the country itself.
Pierre L’Enfant’s original design for the new capital city included a “great church for national purposes,”
an idea that sat idle until a congressional charter authorized a cathedral dedicated to religion, education and charity, in 1893.
Construction began in 1907, when President Theodore Roosevelt helped lay the foundation stone.
Through world wars, the Great Depression and immense social change,
construction ended exactly 83 years after it began, when President George H.W. Bush oversaw the laying of the final stone atop the towers, in 1990.

This is as close as we got to the Cathedral as my grandson was more interested in the playground.
I would love to go back and tour the inside...maybe when he is a little older!
As you can see we had very gray weather for our visit this time.