Washington National Cathedral

This guide to Washington National Cathedral asks who really won when the cathedral invited kids worldwide to design its new gargoyles in 1984, a contest that drew fourteen hundred drawings from sixteen countries and one entry of a certain movie villain. You'll hear about twelve-year-old Alison Garner's grand-prize creature and thirteen-year-old Chris Rader's runner-up design, and how the cathedral's sculptor in residence worked from film stills to carve it. It follows the decades of stone-carving here since Theodore Roosevelt laid the foundation stone in 1907.