Washington Dulles International Airport of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X". The location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today. The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17, As originally opened, the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C, 1R/19L, and 12/30). Its original name, Dulles International Airport, was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport. The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish-American architect
Avery Dulles the United States. Dulles prepared his written remarks to the pope prior to the visit. Dulles died on December 12, 2008 at Fordham University in the Bronx, where he had lived for many years. His remains were buried in the Jesuit cemetery in Auriesville, New York. Cardinal Dulles wrote 25 books and hundreds of articles and essays. A "catalogue raisonné" including his many translations, forewords, introductions, reviews and letters to the editor, was published by Fordham University Press in 2012 under the title "The Legacy of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: His Words and His Witness". Avery Dulles Avery Robert Dulles,