What happens when Crossroads renovates a Catholic church from 1873? Look inside: PHOTOS
Aug 24, 2016, 1:34pm EDT
Updated Aug 24, 2016, 1:44pm EDT
Andy Brownfield
Crossroads Church began hosting services in Bogart's uptown space in 2014, but now it has a more traditional – but very non-traditional – home to reach out to University of Cincinnati students.
Crossroads, which is based in Oakley with five other campuses across Greater Cincinnati, purchased the Old St. George church on Calhoun Street in March 2015. The church is now wrapping up a $13 million renovation of the building and began hosting services there on Aug. 21. Click through the photos below for a look inside.
Crossroads replaced all of the mechanical, plumbing, electrical and HVAC throughout the building and added a state-of-the-art audio and visual system, but the church tried to preserve the building's historic character, Sue Landgrebe, Crossroads' building operations director, told me.
The stained glass windows in the main sanctuary and the leaded glass in the friary were all stabilized and preserved. The vaulted ceilings of the sanctuary were also stabilized and cleaned but not repainted in order to let the history of the building show through.
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Picture slideshow at link.