Category: Building & Grounds

  • November 4 Organ progress.

    Progress is slow but steady.  We won’t have the organ for quite a while.   The console and bench.     Above, the beginning of the wind chest.   Detail of top Miter.

  • Pictures of organ console, pedal board..

    Below see completed pedal board and  lower console ready to be finished.  Upper console  in process of being constructed.   Lower console, built, ready for finish.

  • Progress on painting/ repairs

    As he paints, Roy Riley has repaired what is rotten. Here’s a bit of the base of one of the columns.  The trim around the base of the facade is now replaced and it’s looking almost finished.  Half  the windows are done.  He takes the sash home to work on in the shop.  Soon all…

  • Painting interupted by cold.

    The church front  has been scraped, primed, and received one coat of finish paint.  Another coat of finish will be applied when the temperature is warmer.

  • 1910 Moving Scars

    When the church was scraped the seam where the church was cut in 1910  to be moved became prominent. It looks as if they cut off the columns at the top to move it also. Some rotten wood was removed for repair revealing that the columns are purely decorative, not actually weight bearing at all.

  • November 5, 2010

    Our organ project is next in line for Stephen and Carol Russell. We stopped for a quick look at  Russell Organ Company on November 5 . There was a drawer with pieces cut out for some of our pipes. A few of our pipes have been rolled. Pipes are made of several different materials. This…

  • Window repair, Nov. 2010

  • Scraping the church.

  • Front porch repair on Sanctuary

    Last week the column with a gap on the front porch was repaired. Check out the columns  next Sunday. Also, the leak in the flashing where the link joins the sanctuary was repaired.  You can see new shingles from the Ed. building.