supplies guides to public and private school children as well as to adult
groups. This department also presents a semiweekly series of motion pic-
tures of New York; midweek illustrated lectures primarily designed for
schoolteachers; Saturday afternoon gallery tours for adults and story hours
for children; and Sunday afternoon lectures by guest speakers. Member-
ship in the junior museum club is open to any child in New York. A course
is offered in museum educational methods in co-operation with the Board
of Higher Education, and lecturers are supplied to schools, women's clubs,
and other organizations. Schools may avail themselves of series of portable
history sets, comprised of cardboard models illustrating various phases in
New York history.

Cathedral of St. John The Divine

Cathedral Parkway (110th St.) to 113th St., Amsterdam Ave. to Morningside
Drive; main entrance on Amsterdam Ave. and 112th St. IRT Broadway-7th Ave.
subway to Cathedral Parkway (110th St.); or 8th Ave. (Independent) Washington
Heights or Grand Concourse subway (local) to Cathedral Parkway (110th St.);
or 9th Ave. el to 110th St.; or 5th Ave. bus No. 4 to Amsterdam Ave. and noth
St. Guide service: Sunday after 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. services.

St. John's has been rising, stone on stone, for almost half a century—
a pure masonry structure. Dominating Morningside Heights plateau the
cathedral appears to grow out of the masses of jagged gneiss of which
Manhattan Island is made. Out from the cliff emerge the seven clustered
apsidal chapels, crowned with peaked verdigris roofs, that emphasize the
vertical motif of the whole cathedral. From the apex of the roof a figure
of Gabriel with his trumpet salutes the East. Eventually when the cathe-
dral assumes its final form, the crossing tower will dominate the whole
mass.

The church grounds comprise eleven and a half acres. South of the
cathedral are the synod house, St. Faith's House, the bishop's house, the
deanery and the choir school, and the old synod house. These French and
English Gothic buildings and the cathedral form a harmonious group.

The ambitious plans proposed by the Right Reverend Horatio Potter in
1872 to erect the largest church in America, began to be realized in 1892
when his nephew and successor, Bishop Henry Codman Potter, purchased
the present site—part of the battlefield of Harlem Heights. The corner-
stone was laid on St. John's Day, December 27, 1892.

More than twenty million dollars has been expended in the construe-