James McCrery, assistant professor, architecture, and director, Classical Architecture and Urbanism, was quoted in an East Tennessee Catholic story about the diocese’s new cathedral, which he designed.
... To get there, Bishop Stika and Father David Boettner, a vicar general for the diocese and rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish, turned to Washington, D.C.-based architect James McCrery for the design. The church is being built in the cruciform style. Like many churches from previous eras, it is shaped to look like a cross when viewed from above.
“They wanted it to be traditional, no doubt about that. They wanted it to speak to the people of East Tennessee. They wanted it to be the example church for the entire diocese, and they wanted it to be a particularly beautiful, American, Catholic cathedral church,” Mr. McCrery said. ...
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