Six-figure shortfall halts restoration work at historic Assumption church
It’s been five years since it reopened — and 10 years since it first shut down due to millions in dollars in repairs.
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It’s been five years since it reopened — and 10 years since it first shut down due to millions in dollars in repairs.
The latest phase in the restoration of historic Our Lady of the Assumption Church here includes the dismantling of the 104-year-old pipe organ. WINDSO...
The historic pipe organ at Assumption Church hadn't been cleaned in about 50 years, but all that's changing thanks to some renovations that need to happen to the church's ceiling. Jim Doddington is with Doddington and Doddington Pipe Organs Incorporated, which is working on the instrument, and Ron Dossenbach is the organ consultant on the project.
A pair of retired organists in Chatham-Kent have been restoring an antique pipe organ they rescued from a church in Blenheim.
Binkley United Church in Hamilton is closing and hopes its search to find a new home for the pipe organ that's been producing "gorgeous" sounds there for decades will end on a high note. It's willing to give it away at no cost to the right congregation, which would have to pay its own moving costs.