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Episcopal cathedral sold Unnamed buyer to pay $1.275M for 38-year-old landmark (ECUSA)
kalamazoogazette ^ | April 30, 2007 | Tom Haroldson

Posted on 05/09/2007 10:04:20 AM PDT by PAR35

The Cathedral of Christ the King in Portage has been sold, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan were told Sunday.

But who has purchased the church for $1.275 million and what will be done with the familiar landmark building and its prime property remain unknown.

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The cathedral was built in 1969 for $2 million. The diocese began thinking about a sale in 2004 because of tight finances and a dwindling church maintenance fund.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: cathedral; ecusa; episcopal; portage
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal

... if Vegas ever decides to go for a “Martian Chronicles” theme.


21 posted on 05/09/2007 12:51:44 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

yeah ........ that.


22 posted on 05/09/2007 1:35:03 PM PDT by proud_2_B_texasgal (If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a)
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal

One word -—Why?


23 posted on 05/09/2007 2:12:23 PM PDT by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting Iran in Iraq, we can't pretend to win the war.)
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To: x_plus_one
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time (fueled by plenty of 60's acid).

There is nothing so dated as something that was once considered the wave of the future.

24 posted on 05/09/2007 2:29:44 PM PDT by Martin Tell ("It is the right, good old way you are in: keep in it.")
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To: Martin Tell; x_plus_one
There is nothing so dated as something that was once considered the wave of the future.

The chutzpah of these people who imagined that THEY knew better than a thousand years of church history. . . .

Why, indeed?

25 posted on 05/09/2007 4:49:25 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: PAR35

Looks like a cement factory. Or something out of Nazi Germany death camps.
No intention to glorify God.


26 posted on 05/09/2007 7:02:37 PM PDT by Bainbridge
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To: PAR35
It does like they have a full ring of REAL bells, though . . .

I hope somebody saves them, if they're any good.

Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers

27 posted on 05/09/2007 7:15:30 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: PAR35
I just realized that this cathedral and my dear second dog both are from Portage!

They may have the world's ugliest cathedral, but they have some very pretty dogs there!


At eight weeks, looking so cute it ought to be illegal.

28 posted on 05/09/2007 7:18:11 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

They are selling the organ separately. I’d bet they’ll look for a good offer on the bells as well. Given the current market for scrap, they might just sell them to a recycler.


29 posted on 05/09/2007 7:25:19 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dangus
I have had sympathy for the architecturally deficient Roman Catholic brethren, but we now see that bad architecture spans the denominations and faiths. I have seen some Baptist buildings that would make great Country Western performance venues, some Apostles of God sanctuarys that would make a Jimmy Swaggart weak in the knees and now this thing.

I love to see a the great architectural attempt, I love Thorne Crown for example, but some of what has come along in the last fifty years are just obnoxious.

30 posted on 05/09/2007 7:26:05 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: gridlock

We highjacked a thread into a discussion of ugly churches one night. That one won.


31 posted on 05/09/2007 7:28:21 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Never mind, it's a carillon.

I went to the website and found out what that strange round structure is out front.

Some members of the parish gave the cathedral some bas-reliefs (done in a 30s style but thankfully not the Socialist Realism of Rockwell Kent) from an old store that was wrecked out in downtown Portage. So they built that strange incinerator-looking thing to display them.

That's "Commerce" and "Agriculture" - on the other side are "Industry" and "Art" - looking like nothing so much as a 1930s version of Achilles (although he's holding a caduceus so he ought to be Hermes) and Marianne (the symbol of France - although she's holding a little Nike so she ought to be Athena). But the Nike, not the wreath she's holding, ought to have the wings. The symbolism is a terrible mish-mash.

On the website they have some folderol about the bas-reliefs representing the church's duty to serve all diverse people, but that sounds like "somebody we don't want to offend gave us these and we have NO idea what to do with them, or say about it."

Clearly these folks don't plan well in any respect.

32 posted on 05/09/2007 7:31:03 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: beelzepug
Or perhaps one der Fuehrer would be proud of

You insult Hitler. He actually would have made a fairly good architect - and the world might have been better off if he had gone into that line. But he wanted to be an artist.

33 posted on 05/09/2007 7:31:23 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: AnAmericanMother

Not all newer attempts that are outside the box turn out to miss the mark. Take a look at Thorne Crown outside Eureka Springs in northwest Arkansas at http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2764753780015621458nmqFkl


34 posted on 05/09/2007 7:35:56 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: PAR35
I have passed the word to our music director - our church needs a new organ.

The Aeolian-Skinners are out of fashion right now, if I recall what he told me in the music course he taught last semester . . . but I let him know anyway. Maybe we can get a deal.

35 posted on 05/09/2007 7:37:23 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: KC Burke

More shots of Thorn Crown at http://www.webshots.com/search?media=photo&query=Thorne+Crown+Arkansas&queryChannel=&sortBy=&source=search_menu


36 posted on 05/09/2007 7:38:38 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke

more http://www.thorncrown.com/Photogallery1/index.html


37 posted on 05/09/2007 7:41:28 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke
That actually looks backward to the old Stave Churches of Norway . . .

But it's got its insides showing.


38 posted on 05/09/2007 7:42:27 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Come on, the French couldn’t even get the towers to match on the first of your good examples. At least the Germans can make them look the same: http://www.koelner-dom.de/


39 posted on 05/09/2007 7:43:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Not always . . .

Close but no cigar (naturally it's the Bavarians).

My personal favorite for pure exuberance is Santiago de Compostela:

Daughter was there last summer and had a ball . . .

40 posted on 05/09/2007 7:51:01 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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