The photograph has been labelled to indicate which buildings were erected during Shahan's rectorship. However, the Salve Regina office building erected in 1920 is out of the frame. Note that the crypt level of the National Shrine is incomplete.

Aerial photo of Catholic University campus, ca. 1931.

Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) at the foundation stone laying ceremony for the National Shrine on September 23, 1920.

Center spread of September 23 1920 program

Unidentified laborers posing on the active construction site of the crypt church on November 10, 1923. In the background sits McMahon Hall.

Pulleys, ladders, debris, and unidentified laborers at the construction site o the crypt church on September 12, 1923.

Group of unidentified laborers posing in front of crypt level on September 12, 1923.

The small article published in the June 1919 issue of Salve Regina announcing that an architect for the National Shrine had been chosen.

1931 guide book with floor plan, history, and photographs of the crypt level.

Unidentified laborer posing with the foundation stone in situ, during the construction of the crypt church. Note that the date inscribed in Latin on the stone follows the Roman calendar; it reads “eight days prior to the first of October,” which…