. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Old Cathedral, Second and Walnut, Still Standing. 102 SAIXr LOUIS will be the new Cathedral, to be erected on LindellBoulevard, Newstead and Maryland Avenues,when finished to represent one of the most mag-nificent of modern American Cathedrals. Someidea of its magnitude may be obtained from a com-parison of some of its dimensions with the great\A^estminster, London. The greatest length ofhundred and sixty feet—thethree hundred and eighty;AVestminster one hundredSaint Louis Cathedral twothe clear open Auditoriumthousand feet—Saint Louis Cathed
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Old Cathedral, Second and Walnut, Still Standing. 102 SAIXr LOUIS will be the new Cathedral, to be erected on LindellBoulevard, Newstead and Maryland Avenues,when finished to represent one of the most mag-nificent of modern American Cathedrals. Someidea of its magnitude may be obtained from a com-parison of some of its dimensions with the great\A^estminster, London. The greatest length ofhundred and sixty feet—thethree hundred and eighty;AVestminster one hundredSaint Louis Cathedral twothe clear open Auditoriumthousand feet—Saint Louis Cathedral fifteen thou-sand three hundred feet, in all its proportions be-ing larger than W^estminster, with an ultimateseating capacity of between four thousand and fourthousand five hundred people. AVestminster is threeSaint Louis Cathedral,the greatest width ofand seventeen feet— hundred and twelve; Westminster, twelve. Cathedral, East Elevation. ^fXr LOCUS 103 The corner stone, of ])olished Alissouri laid ()ctober i8, 1908, two hours and fifteenminutes being- required for the parade of fortythousand Catholics to pass the reviewing- stand,being the largest demonstration of the kind in thehistory of the Catholic church of the \\^est. The plan of the building is a beautiful de-velopment with broad large nave and circulartransepts, continuous ambulatories encircling theentire structure, both in main and clere story, andconnecting, in a convenient manner, each andevery feature of the building without entering orcrossing the nave, transepts, sanctuary or ^hile the building is original in composition andpossesses an individuality all its own, which willmake it known and spoken of as The Cathedralof Saint Louis, in the details and character ofthe exterior, it is of a pure type of Romanesque,the motifs having been studied from the most ex-alted examples of the style as found in the gr
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