3D print the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle
A free, printable model of St. Matthew's Cathedral in downtown Washington, D.C., with the streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 61 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 17 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
61 m of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, 17 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Dome and cupola
The dome, its cupola and the cross on top are the smallest parts of the silhouette. Print friendly adapts them at a small scale; Full detail keeps them for a larger print or a finer nozzle.
- Layers for the dome
Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curve of the dome and the roofline crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle
St. Matthew's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Washington, in downtown Washington, D.C. The archbishop's seat stands at 1725 Rhode Island Avenue NW; Connecticut Avenue and 17th Street frame the block, and the White House lies seven blocks south and two east. The building and its rectory joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and the cathedral is often shortened to St. Matthew's.
The parish began with a church at 15th and H Streets, dedicated there on November 1, 1840, while still unfinished. By 1890 it was no longer adequate, so Monsignor Thomas Sim Lee bought land on Rhode Island Avenue in 1892. He chose Christopher Grant LaFarge as architect; the parish approved the plans in 1893, laid the cornerstone that year, and held the first Mass on June 2, 1895. The dome followed in 1913, the year of the dedication.
The plan is a Latin cross, 47 m by 41 m (155 ft by 136 ft), with seating for about 1,200. Red brick forms the walls, with sandstone and terra cotta trim, and the design mixes Romanesque Revival forms with Byzantine elements. Above the nave the octagonal dome climbs 58 m (190 ft), and a cupola and crucifix raise the total to 61 m (200 ft). Marble and semiprecious stones line the interior, where an 11 m (35 ft) mosaic of the saint sits behind the main altar.
About this model
The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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