In a ceremony Tuesday morning on the steps of the 200-year-old Baltimore Basilica, construction manager Ellington Churchill, of Henry H. Lewis Contracting, officially turned the keys to America?s first Catholic cathedral back over to Monsignor James Hobbs and church officials.

The intensive restoration work, budgeted at $32 million, drew national attention the last two years but is now complete.

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