Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Struetures Long In Building. [ARTICLE]

Struetures Long In Building.

The cathedral of St. Peter In Cologne was 632 years In building, rt was begun In 1248 and was pronounced completed In 1880. The great cathedral of Milan was begun In 1386 and was not completed until 1805—419 years later. Rostermel Castle, In Cornwall, took ninety years to build, and one-third of that time was employed in excavating for the foundations. The late Lord Bute was engaged for over twenty years in building his great palace in the Isle of Bute, (and his successor Is still at work on it. The palace 6f the Dukes of Atholl in Scotland has been building since 1830, and the work is still going on.