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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

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To: AnAmericanMother

Sainte Chapelle’s small cathedral of light was Fay Jones inspiration for his masterpiece. he called it Ozark Gothic. For Saint Chappelle:http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Cathedrals/Paris/Sainte-Chapelle.shtml


41 posted on 05/09/2007 7:51:44 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
our church needs a new organ.

We are in the final stages of installing a new organ. It was about a 5 year project, start to finish. Ours is supposed to be very similar to this one in Houston:
http://www.stmartinsepiscopal.org/schoenstein.htm

These folks seem to deal in used organs:
http://www.organclearinghouse.com/services.php

42 posted on 05/09/2007 7:58:10 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: KC Burke
I can see the nod to the unusual exterior proportions - the tall rectangle -

But I can't see the connection with the interior at all -

It was the descending, interlocking interior beams that made me think of the stave churches. That's how they're built.

43 posted on 05/09/2007 7:59:59 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother
I think it is the airey, awash in natural light, interior.

I have a friend that is a Mexican Architect from central Mexico who was educated in the US in the sixties. He had heard of Thorncrown but never seen more than a small snapshot. We were driving through that area on a leasurly business trip and I took him by there. We arrived on a misty morning without anyone but us around and walked through the mountain mists and into the chapel alone in silence.

We sat in a pew for about five minutes without a word exchanged. He turned to me and whispered: wow!!!

44 posted on 05/09/2007 8:07:24 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Jones wanted it built without disturbing the site. The property Owner had built it as personal gift to the area community and almost couldn’t get it finished. Jones desinged it so the trusses could be built on the flagstone floor and raised in place and all the members and glass plates could be hand carried to the site.

Construction photos
http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/FayJones/projectgallery.asp?project=THO1980&image=THO1980%5B10%5Dweb.jpg&caption=Looking%20up%20at%20Thorncrown%20from%20exterior&photographer=Fay%20Jones%20Studio


45 posted on 05/09/2007 8:13:11 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal

I think I have see it. Right by the Interstate, right? UGHlee!


46 posted on 05/09/2007 8:18:40 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: PAR35
The world's ugliest Cathedral...

Oh I'm not so sure, I think there may be a tie for that title.


47 posted on 05/09/2007 9:16:10 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: dangus
The Taj Mahony just looks like a misplaced factory prison.
48 posted on 05/09/2007 9:18:16 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
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To: proud_2_B_texasgal
Right up there with this hideous cathedral in Burlington, Vermont.


49 posted on 05/09/2007 9:21:50 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Is that Cathedral called Glory to Cement Block?


50 posted on 05/10/2007 1:20:40 AM PDT by neb52
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To: AnAmericanMother

You would think they could find a saint or Bible scene to convey the same message.


51 posted on 05/10/2007 4:40:38 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: KC Burke

It’s a beautiful work. But it’s as far from “brutalist” modern as anything could possibly be.


52 posted on 05/10/2007 6:12:00 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: murphE

No doubt the new Catholic Cathedral in Los Angeles doesn’t look like a church, but the one in Portage is in a class by itself. In additon to being ugly, it was non-functional. (It originally contained the bishop’s offices, but they moved out to more suitable space several years ago. )


53 posted on 05/10/2007 7:31:09 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Our former ECUSA parish had a Schoenstein.

It was a nice organ, but the "worship space" was built in the 60s, just like the Ugliest Cathedral in the World . . . so the acoustics naturally are hideous. Even a gaggle of acoustic engineers couldn't do much with it.

54 posted on 05/10/2007 2:32:16 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

We remodeled a 50’s era space. The problem is that the music folks were in charge. Great acoustics now for music, but the room is too live for the sermons. So now they are spending another bundle of money to try to fix that problem.


55 posted on 05/10/2007 8:41:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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