The Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston was designed by Patrick Keely for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, with his assistant John A. Dempwolf helping supervise construction. Groundbreaking was on April 29, 1866, and it was dedicated on December 8, 1875.
The style is Gothic Revival. The walls are Roxbury puddingstone and gray limestone, and brick from the Ursuline convent burned in the 1834 riots is set in the arch over the front door. It is 364 feet (111 m) long, 90 feet (27 m) wide at the transepts and 120 feet (37 m) high, covering 50,000 square feet. Two planned towers were never built.
The Hook & Hastings organ dates from 1875. A requiem mass for John F. Kennedy was held in 1964, and a 26 million dollar renovation ran from 2017 to 2019. Capacity is 1,700 in the infobox and 2,000 in the text. The article gives no hours.
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