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Re: Old St Stephen's Catholic Church
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: September 16, 2012 11:39PM
Mornac Wrote:
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> More than you can possibly know daveg. I watched
> the parish church that I grew up in being
> destroyed piece by piece like so many other
> Catholic churches in the city that suffered from
> the mass wreck-ovation of the 1960’s and 70’s.
> I’ve been very pleased to tell my kids that
> they’d be experiencing something the polar
> opposite of what I had to go through: The
> restoration of architecture to its intended form.
> Here are a few photos of what our church looked
> like before the interior resorstion began. The
> inlaid floor is the only thing that isn’t
> original. We had to replace the asbestos floor
> back in the 90’s but a lot of thought went into
> it and in fact the floor design won an award.
> There will probably be some “finished product”
> photos in the future (early next year?). I’ll
> link to ‘em when they show up. Here's a video
> about how we managed to turned things around. It
> contains some footage of the interior as well as
> exterior.
Well the work has been slow but steady. Things should be wrapping up before Christmas (I hope). [url=http://www.cantius.org/go/news/detail/restoration_of_st_john_cantius/]Here's a few photos of the progress.[/url]
Of course after that there's still [url=http://www.cantius.org/go/music/organ_fundraising_project/photos]the organ we bought from St. James Methodist in Hyde Park[/url] which has to be installed. It's currently in Canada getting a full makeover from it's manufacturer. I'm told that it won't be fully installed and "recital ready" until late next year.
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> More than you can possibly know daveg. I watched
> the parish church that I grew up in being
> destroyed piece by piece like so many other
> Catholic churches in the city that suffered from
> the mass wreck-ovation of the 1960’s and 70’s.
> I’ve been very pleased to tell my kids that
> they’d be experiencing something the polar
> opposite of what I had to go through: The
> restoration of architecture to its intended form.
> Here are a few photos of what our church looked
> like before the interior resorstion began. The
> inlaid floor is the only thing that isn’t
> original. We had to replace the asbestos floor
> back in the 90’s but a lot of thought went into
> it and in fact the floor design won an award.
> There will probably be some “finished product”
> photos in the future (early next year?). I’ll
> link to ‘em when they show up. Here's a video
> about how we managed to turned things around. It
> contains some footage of the interior as well as
> exterior.
Well the work has been slow but steady. Things should be wrapping up before Christmas (I hope). [url=http://www.cantius.org/go/news/detail/restoration_of_st_john_cantius/]Here's a few photos of the progress.[/url]
Of course after that there's still [url=http://www.cantius.org/go/music/organ_fundraising_project/photos]the organ we bought from St. James Methodist in Hyde Park[/url] which has to be installed. It's currently in Canada getting a full makeover from it's manufacturer. I'm told that it won't be fully installed and "recital ready" until late next year.
Re: Old St Stephen's Catholic Church
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: October 20, 2014 02:49AM
At Mass this morning, the priest mentioned that St. John's was part of the Open House Chicago tour and that they had over 500 visitors yesterday. It then occurred to me that I never came back to this thread with photos of our restoration (which more or less finished last year). There's plenty of photos of both the interior and exterior on the [url=http://www.cantius.org/home]parish website.[/url] For some nice shots of the re-painted vaults, see the photos from Pentecost Sunday.
Re: Old St Stephen's Catholic Church
Posted by:
Eric F
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Date: January 08, 2015 02:41PM
Old Stephen's also had a little menagerie at one time. Very beautiful little church, which I've only seen in pictures, one of the many we've lost. I was a member of St John Cantius in the late 90's and still get back a few times a year. Sadly, at present, the distance doesn't fit in with my schedule.
Re: Old St Stephen's Catholic Church
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: January 25, 2015 05:59PM
Mornac Wrote:
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> At Mass this morning, the priest mentioned that
> St. John's was part of the Open House Chicago tour
> and that they had over 500 visitors yesterday. It
> then occurred to me that I never came back to this
> thread with photos of our restoration (which more
> or less finished last year). There's plenty of
> photos of both the interior and exterior on the
> parish website. For some nice shots of the
> re-painted vaults, see the photos from Pentecost
> Sunday.
Wow! I just found this [url=http://www.viderexto.com/historchicago/234.html]recent addition[/url] to our parish website. You can do a virtual tour of the entire nave and even walk up to the altar and over to the side altars. From wherever you're standing you can grab and pull the screen to look up to the vaults, down to the floor, and 180 degrees around you. If you can't actually go there, this is the best way to see how well our restoration went.
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> At Mass this morning, the priest mentioned that
> St. John's was part of the Open House Chicago tour
> and that they had over 500 visitors yesterday. It
> then occurred to me that I never came back to this
> thread with photos of our restoration (which more
> or less finished last year). There's plenty of
> photos of both the interior and exterior on the
> parish website. For some nice shots of the
> re-painted vaults, see the photos from Pentecost
> Sunday.
Wow! I just found this [url=http://www.viderexto.com/historchicago/234.html]recent addition[/url] to our parish website. You can do a virtual tour of the entire nave and even walk up to the altar and over to the side altars. From wherever you're standing you can grab and pull the screen to look up to the vaults, down to the floor, and 180 degrees around you. If you can't actually go there, this is the best way to see how well our restoration went.
