Washington National Cathedral

===Architects===
[[File:Washington National Cathedral ironwork.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.5|Detail of cast bronze gate]]
The cathedral's master plan was designed by [[George Frederick Bodley]] (founder of [[Watts & Co.]]), a highly regarded British Gothic Revival architect of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, and was influenced by Canterbury. Landscape architect [[Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.]] contributed a landscaping plan for the cathedral close and [[Nellie B. Allen]] designed a knot garden for the Bishop's Garden. After Bodley died in 1907, his partner [[Henry Vaughan (Architect)|Henry Vaughan]] revised the original design, but work stopped during [[World War I]] and Vaughan died in 1917.

When work resumed after [[World War I|the war]], the chapter hired Boston architecture firm Frohman, Robb and Little to execute the building. [[Philip Hubert Frohman]], who had designed his first fully functional home at age&nbsp;14 and received his architectural degree at age&nbsp;16, and his partners worked to perfect Bodley's vision, adding the carillon section of the central tower, enlarging the west [[façade]], and making numerous smaller changes. [[Ralph Adams Cram]] was hired to supervise Frohman, because of his experience with the [[Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York|Cathedral of St.&nbsp;John the Divine]], [[New York City|New York]], but Cram insisted on so many major changes to the original design that Frohman convinced the cathedral chapter to fire him. By Frohman's death in 1972, the final plans had been completed and the building was finished accordingly.