In 1953, following a 22-year effort to erect a memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral, the United Daughters of the Confederacy finished the job. The ...
Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, ...