NATION : National Cathedral Near Completion
Washington Cathedral, 82 years in the building and one of the glories of the capital’s skyline, moved a step nearer to completion today as the last load of limestone was delivered for the second-largest cathedral in the United States.
“I thought once I wasn’t going to be able to see it finished,” said Otto Epps, the project’s head laborer and a veteran of 37 years of work on the cathedral.
“This is a great day,” said the Rt. Rev. John T. Walker, Episcopal bishop of Washington who said a prayer of thanksgiving at a rain-dampened ceremony on the steps of the cathedral, known to tourists as National Cathedral.
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