Adaptive Reuse Profiles: Commercial / Offices
Property: St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Location: Newark,
New Jersey
Project: The
Priory Restaurant
Completion: 1988
Contact: Mnsignor
William Linder
Notes: The church was renovated for $2,000,000, ($120,000 for acquisition from archdiocese) and houses a complex of offices, a health spa, atrium, sandwich shop, and health care center. It was undertaken by The New Community Corporation, a large nonprofit housing corporation. The building was renovated with federal money and a mortgage backed by excess capitol of the New Community's other holdings. The restaurant alone cost $1 million to renovate.
Property: St. Pauls Church
Location: Cincinnati,
Ohio
Project: St.
Paul's Church Mart
Completion: c.
1981
Contact: I.
T. Verdin Co.
Notes: St. Pauls Church Mart in the Pendleton area of Cincinnati was built to be the nation's first showroom for top-of-the-line church products. It serves as a showroom for individuals, pastors, architects, designers, and church committee members can get a hands on trial in the display area. They vend pews, alter brasses, signs, organs, vestments, tapestries, choir robes, steeples, electric fixtures, lighting, flooring, sound, and security systems, clocks, bells and even stained glass.
Property: Community Baptist Church
Location: Canton,
Connecticut
Project: Mallory
Antique shop
Completion: 1987
Contact: Brooke
and J. Wickliffe Mallory of Avon, CT
Notes: Built in 1790, the 2584 square foot church was purchased from the congregation for $80,000. It was moved to the rear of the lot on busy route 44, and a small parking lot put in front. New mechanical systems were put in throughout. Cost $100,000 to move, and an unknown sum to renovate.
Property: St. Patrick Church of St. Charles
Location: St. Charles,
Illinois
Project: The
Old Church Inn
Completion: 1972
Contact: The
Old Church Inn,18
North 4th Street,St.
Charles, IL ( ) 584-7341
Notes: The church was dedicated in 1851, and used actively until 1912, laying fallow until 1950 when it was converted into a school, but this endeavor did not last long, and it was long vacant prior to the 1972 renovation. The reuse was done by Terry and Laurette Grove of Geneva. The rectory became "The Parsonage Shops", and the church became a restaurant.