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Back in the day, it was oftendifficult for Partners to provide hard,tangible evidence of our impact onindividual congregations andcommunities. From our founding in1989, we knew Partners servedeffectively as a national advocate andinformation center for congregationswith older buildings, but site-specificresults were elusive.

Things changed dramatically several years agowhen Partners introduced New Dollars/New Partners,which has had a demonstrable impact on hundredsof congregations in cities ranging from SanFrancisco on the West Coast, to Cincinnati andMinneapolis in the Midwest, to Atlanta and Bostonin the East. Furthermore, a formal evaluation of theprogram showed that New Dollars providescongregational leaders with important skills forcommunity-wide capital fundraising, and two-thirdsof participating congregations have developed newor deeper partnerships with communityorganizations within a few short months.

The tangibility of Partners’ impact is strongerthan ever, now that we are establishing two regionalcenters of activity—Philadelphia and Fort Worth. We are serving each city/region via a comprehensiveprogram offering training, repair planning grants,capital grants and other services. Each program isfocusing on congregations that are integral to thegrowth and development of key neighborhoods ortowns in the region.

The Philadelphia Fund was launched just threemonths ago (see article on page 6), and the FortWorth office will be officially launched this fall (seepage 6). They are receiving significant funding fromrespected, knowledgeable donors who have donetheir homework regarding the power and reach ofPartners’ programs.

A word should be said here about the key roleplayed by our Board of Directors and regionaladvisory boards in building and sustaining ourprograms. They have helped to vouch for Partnerswith potential funders, have opened doors toindividual donors, and have guided and vetted ourprograms from conception to implementation. Theyhave gone above and beyond what many boards dofor their organizations, and deserve our heartfeltgratitude.

Sacred Places • Summer 2006

Contents4 Update on Partners

New Dollars/New Partners CoachesStaff NewsIn MemoriamAnnouncing the new Fort Worth OfficeLaunch of Philadelphia Regional Fund

7 FeatureSacred Landscape:

Gardens and Parks Welcome the Community into Older Religious Properties

13 News ClearinghouseHow the Other Half Worships

14 Funding BriefHistoric Boston’s Steeples Project Lights up the Skyline

16 Professional Alliance SpotlightMonument Conservation Collaborative:

Preserving the Substance and Significance of Gravestones

18 Professional Alliance Directory

About Partners

Partners for Sacred Places is the only national, non-sectarian,nonprofit organization dedicated to the sound stewardship and activecommunity use of America’s older religious properties. Founded in1989 by religious, historic preservation and philanthropic leaders,Partners provides assistance to the people who care for sacred placesand promotes a greater understanding of how these places sustaincommunities.

PARTNERS’ PROGRAMS AND SERVICES INCLUDE:

❖ Training. New Dollars/New Partners for Your Sacred Place is anintensive program that gives congregations with older buildingsthe skills and resources to broaden their base of support.

❖ Workshops and Conferences. Partners’ staff speaks on a variety oftopics at national and regional conferences throughout the country.

❖ Publications. Some of Partners’ books include:• Your Sacred Place Is a Community Asset: A Tool Kit to Attract

New Resources and Partners• The Complete Guide to Capital Campaigns for Historic Churches

and Synagogues❖ Information Clearinghouse. This web-based resource provides

information related to the care and use of older sacred places.(www.sacredplaces.org/information_clearinghouse.html)

❖ Advocacy Initiatives. Partners works with civic leaders, funders andpolicymakers, urging them to adopt policies and practices thatprovide new resources to older religious properties.

from theExecutive Director

COVER PHOTO OF ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN WINSTON-SALEM, NC,BY DAVID ROLFE

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As Partners continues to expand NewDollars/New Partners for Your Sacred Place, ournational training program that teachescongregations with older buildings how tobroaden their base of support, we recentlyintroduced a coaching component to helpcongregations sustain momentum betweentraining sessions. Volunteer coaches helpcongregational teams organize their work,troubleshoot problems, monitor their progressand hold each other accountable for completingprogram tasks.

New Dollars coaches work with a congregationone to two days a month for a year. They attendthe four New Dollars training modules; meet withthe training team to help them identifycongregational gifts and those in thesurrounding community; and follow up by phoneto keep the team on track with tasks. Coachescan be staff or board members of the sponsoringorganization, lay leaders from area congregationsor seminary students.

Partners developed the coach model inresponse to feedback from New Dollarsparticipants who told us they needed additionalencouragement between training sessions. Lastyear, Partners piloted a coach program inPhiladelphia using students from the Universityof Pennsylvania. During the pilot, we learnedthat a coach doesn’t need to be an expert in thefield but rather a cheerleader or nudge to helpthe congregation stay focused on the process.Based on the success of the Philadelphia pilot,the coach model is taking off across the country.In Minnesota and Michigan, New Dollars coachesare drawing inspiration from their volunteer role.

James A. Turner, a window restorationspecialist and long-time grassroots organizer,coaches two congregations in Detroit’s urban corewho are part of 13 interdenominationalcongregations from across the state participatingin Michigan’s first New Dollars training. Turner isa board member of the Michigan HistoricPreservation Network, the sponsoringorganization. Both congregations have significantsocial justice histories, and Turner sees his role ashelping them identify the rich gifts they offer tothe community. “What is so exciting for me isrecognizing that every church has a story to tell,”Turner says. “So often, people work at what theydo and don’t get to sit back and recognize theirvalue to the community. New Dollars gives themthe tools to put that into words.”

In Minneapolis, The Rev. David Wangaard isalso feeling energized by his role as a New Dollarscoach. “I’m learning things I didn’t know, likehow to write a case statement,” says Rev.Wangaard, the Bishop’s Associate for Urban andMulticultural Ministries for the Minneapolis AreaSynod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ofAmerica, the sponsoring organization for theMinneapolis New Dollars training. One of themajor issues facing the urban churches he workswith is maintaining the physical structure of abuilding that is often too large for their smallcongregation. “These congregations do a hugeamount of community ministry so their buildingsare always full but they struggle to keep thebuildings up. What I like about New Dollars isthat it helps them to see their buildings as assetsrather than liabilities.”

Wangaard’s enthusiasm is contagious. Whenhe told his friend Kurt Meyer, a professionalfundraiser, about New Dollars, Meyersimmediately volunteered to be a coach. “I’m amember of a suburban congregation with a greatdeal of capacity,” Meyer explains. Volunteering asa coach allows him to give back. “I have theopportunity to work with the finest people in thecongregation who inspire me.”

To inquire about becoming a New Dollarscoach, contact Sarah Peveler, Director ofTraining, at 215/567-3234. ext 14, [email protected].

Staff NewsPartners welcomes Rana Guidimal McNamara

to the Development Department. Rana, Directorof Membership and Annual Giving, has been adevelopment professional for the past eighteenyears, mostly with Friends schools. Her mostrecent position was as director of developmentfor an elementary Quaker school.

Partners also welcomes James Nader, a Texasarchitect, civic and faith leader, as the ExecutiveDeveloper of the newly opened Partners regionaloffice in Fort Worth.

Partners says farewell to Office ManagerVivian Lovingood and Development DirectorDan Tomko.

Update on Partners

Partners for Sacred Places1700 Sansom Street 10th FloorPhiladelphia, PA [email protected]/567-3234

BOARD OF DIRECTORSThe Rev. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M.Chair

The Rev. Dennis A. AndersenDouglas B. BauerCharles B. CasperLouis R. CohenWilliam F. DelvacMary Werner DeNadai, FAIAPaul W. EdmondsonThe Rev. Dr. Thomas FrankPhilip B. HallenWalter J. HandelmanMary Jo KirkThe Rev. R. Scott SheldonMonica Taylor

FOUNDING CO-DIRECTORSDiane CohenA. Robert Jaeger

STAFFA. Robert Jaeger,

Executive DirectorDiane Cohen,

Senior Director ofInstitutional Planning andDevelopment

Erin Coryell, Director,Philadelphia Regional Fund

Tuomi Joshua Forrest,Associate Director

Marie Malloy, Director of Operations

Rana Guidimal McNamara, Director of Membership andAnnual Giving

James Nader, Executive Developer, Texas Regional Office

Jane Pap, Development Associate forFoundation Relations

Sarah F. Peveler, Director of Training

Elizabeth Terry, Senior Project Manager

INTERNMolly Lester

SACRED PLACES PRODUCTIONMartha McDonald, EditorJulia Prymak, Designer

(Pryme Design)

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In Memoriam

It with great sadness the wemark the recent passing of TomPhelan (1925–2006), a foundingBoard member of Partners andone of the nation’s strongestadvocates for finding new waysto help congregations care fortheir historic sacred places. At atime when few religious leadersof any faith were willing to be

outspoken, Tom led the way in encouraging Partners to thinkboldly. He was a driving force behind our founding, and formany years both before and after, he was mentor, sage andgood counsel. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest, he livedmuch of his life in the City of Troy, New York, a beloved leaderat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he served as long-time dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,and resident chaplain. Many of Partners’ old friends willremember Tom from our national Sacred Trusts conferencesand other workshops where he was often featured as a keynotespeaker. Perhaps his favorite topic was addressing the issue ofmaking sensitive liturgical changes to historic church interiors.We were always happy to offer him a bully pulpit. Tomprovided intellectual breadth, vigor and energy to manyorganizations, Partners among them, and we are grateful forthat legacy.

Update on Partners

Many thanks to the followingarchitects and conservators who donated

their time in 2006 to New Dollars/New Partners:

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND andCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETYChuck MillerDoty & Miller Architectswww.dotyandmiller.com

CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE OF THEUNITED METHODIST CHURCH ANDTARRANT BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONMichael Hoffer and Larry FoxworthHahnfeld Hoffer Stanfordwww.hahnfeld.com

EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUTBob MocanskySchoenhardt ArchitectsTarriffville, CTwww.schoenhardt.com

LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOISLesley GilmoreGilmore Franzen Architects, Inc.Oak Park, IL

MICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNETWORKIlene R. TylerQuinn Evans Architectswww.quinnevans.com

PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL FUND FORSACRED PLACESClive CoppingDPK&A Architects, LLPwww.dpka.com

PRESBYTERIES OF HUDSON RIVER (NY)AND PALISADES (NJ)Stephen Tilly and Bob GabalskiSteven Tilly Architectwww.stillyarchitect.com

New Dollars/New Partners ProgramsCurrent Programs

Location Sponsor

Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

Chicago Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois

Cleveland Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and Cleveland Restoration Society

Connecticut Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut

Fort Worth Central Texas Conference of theUnited Methodist Church and Tarrant Baptist Association

Michigan Michigan Historic Preservation Network

Minneapolis Minneapolis Area Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

New Jersey Presbytery of New Brunswick

New Jersey and New York Palisades and Hudson River Presbyteries

North Carolina Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina

Philadelphia Philadelphia Regional Fund for Sacred Places

Partners Opens Regional Office in Fort Worth, TX

Partners for Sacred Places recently opened a regional officein Fort Worth, TX. The new office brings Partners’ uniqueblend of historic preservation and community building to theNorth Central Texas region. The project was started with a $1 million grant from the Dick Bundy Donor Advised Fundthrough the Greater Wichita Falls Community Foundation.

“Partners has reached a level of maturity, knowledge andcapacity where we feel we can extend our impact by working inlocal regions, hands-on and up close,” explains PartnersExecutive Director Robert Jaeger. “We want to apply what weknow, and we want to learn more from local experience.”

A team of local religious, community, historic and designorganizations worked to bring Partners to Fort Worth, led bylocal architect, civic and faith leader James Nader. Fort Worthboasts a strong faith community, a long tradition of buildingon history and culture, an active philanthropic and civiccommunity, and ongoing efforts in community and economicdevelopment-making it the perfect place for Partners’ regionaloffice. The office will be operated by a small staff, an AdvisoryBoard of community leaders and a roster of dedicated expertsin construction, stewardship and community ministry, allmanaged and supported by the national organization.

Initially, Partners will concentrate its efforts in Fort Worthcommunities but will expand these efforts regionally in two orthree years. Over the next five years, Partner will make asignificant impact on congregation renewal, including: 200 congregations receiving capacity-building support; 60 that will complete New Dollars training; 47 that will receivetraining and technical assistance matching grants totaling over$200,000; and 32 that will receive seed construction grantstotaling over $300,000.

For more information on the Fort Worth regional office,contact James Nader, Executive Developer, at 817/965-5072 or at [email protected].

Civic Leaders Launch PhiladelphiaRegional Fund for Sacred Places

On May 19th, 2006, Partners officially launched itsPhiladelphia Regional Fund forSacred Places at a high-energyevent hosted by Shiloh BaptistChurch in South Philadelphia.The event included the formalannouncement of the 2006grant recipients, music courtesyof Shiloh, and remarks byleaders from the public andprivate sectors who helpedraise $1.2 million to match achallenge grant from theWilliam Penn Foundation.

Major support for meetingthe William Penn challengecame from the PennsylvaniaHistorical and MuseumCommission, thePennsylvania Department ofCommunity and EconomicDevelopment, and from a variety of private foundations andindividual donors.

Grants totaling $750,000 were awarded to: ❖ Chestnut Hill Baptist Church (Chestnut Hill), Philadelphia❖ Church of the Holy Trinity, West Chester❖ Emanuel Lutheran Church (Queen Village), Philadelphia❖ Episcopal Church of the Trinity, Coatesville❖ First African Baptist Church (Southwest Center City),

Philadelphia❖ Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church (Northern

Liberties), Philadelphia❖ Overbrook Presbyterian Church (Overbrook Farms),

Philadelphia❖ Polite Temple Baptist Church (Germantown), Philadelphia❖ St. Andrew and St. Monica Episcopal (Powelton Village),

Philadelphia❖ St. Francis de Sales Church (University City/Spruce Hill),

Philadelphia❖ St. John’s Episcopal Church, Norristown❖ St. Mary’s Episcopal, Hamilton Village (University City),

Philadelphia

Members from all grantee congregations, along withPartners’ Board of Directors, the Fund Advisory Committeeand many other supporters were in attendance, making for adiverse and joyful event.

The Fund provides technical assistance, New Dollars/NewPartners training, workshops and capital grants to historichouses of worship in the city of Philadelphia and inPennsylvania’s Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomerycounties. Partners will continue to grow the Fund’s resources,and plans to award 8–12 grants annually in the range of$25,000–$100,000 each.

For more information on the Fund, please contact ErinCoryell, Director, Philadelphia Regional Fund [email protected].

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The Rev. Richard McKeon,priest-in-charge at ZionEpiscopal Church, officiatesat the dedication of thechurch’s memorial gardenfor a congregant lost to theSeptember 11th tragedy.

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When the Rev. Dr. C. Lynn Bailey became pastor of St. Johannes Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC in 1995, he inherited a “church that was locked away with a metal fenceand a gate that was chained shut,” Rev. Bailey recalls. “Wewanted to open it to the community and put beauty there, tosend a visible sign of welcome to the community.” So Rev.Bailey and his wife Martha began work on a trinity of gardensfor spiritual nourishment, which, over the past ten years,reconnected the church with the surrounding neighborhood.

Across the country, a growing number of churches,synagogues and meetinghouses with older properties are usingtheir outside space to welcome the community and strengthenthe social fabric. “Religious institutions are involved in thecultivation of hope in individuals and in communities. A keyway to develop hope is through nature,” says the Rev. ThomasPike, rector of Calvary and St. George’s Episcopal Church inNew York City and founding board chair of Partners for SacredPlaces. “Most sacred sites were not built to the property line sothey have green spaces around them,” he says. “More churchesare using these spaces as a gift to the community, like abouquet of flowers that provides visual impact for passersby.”

Randy Young of Young Goldstein Architects, Inc., an Atlantafirm specializing in religious and church-oriented projects,sees a similar trend: “Churches are paying more attention totheir grounds and using them for outdoor activities,” he says.“Creating attractive gardens or labyrinths helps to broaden thereach of the church into the community by opening the doorsof its property, not just its building.”

A Reconciliation GardenIt didn’t take long for the Rev. and Mrs. Martha Bailey to

discover there was “an antagonistic relationship with the

neighbors, because the church property looked so bad,”Martha Bailey recalls. Mending fences with residents of theupscale, historic Ansonborough district of downtownCharleston would take time and patience. Martha spent a yearclearing away trash from Hurricane Hugo in a walled-ingarden. In place of the trash, Martha created The Garden ofBeatitudes, a soothing garden with a pond and walkways builtfrom old Charleston bricks they cleared from the hurricanerubble. The congregation began holding service in thegarden one day a week. Curious children started to stop by.And slowly, neighborhood families began coming by to enjoythe garden.

In September 2002, neighbors and parishioners dedicated ameditation garden at the edge of the property in memory ofthe victims of the September 11th tragedy. In December 2005,the Catholic Bishop of Charleston dedicated a Mary Garden atSt. Johannes, which features a fountain and flowers symbolic ofthe Virgin Mary, such as maidenhair ferns, foxgloves, roses andiris. “Lutherans don’t usually have Mary gardens,” Rev. Baileysays, “but we are an ecumenical place in the heart of the city.Our focus is on welcoming everyone.” In that spirit, St.Johannes also keeps its door open all day. “Neighbors tell usthat for years they wanted to see inside the church and it wasalways locked, now they can visit anytime.” Martha says. Notonly are neighbors visiting the gardens and making donationsto St. Johannes, the congregation has doubled since theBailey’s arrived ten years ago.

Creating Memorial Gardens that Welcome the Community When the Brotherhood Synagogue on Gramercy Park in

Manhattan moved into a former Quaker meetinghouse (c. 1859) in the late 1970’s, the congregation made a


conscious decision to site their memorial walloutside, in a public space. “We wanted to create awelcoming space that a non-Jewish person wouldfeel comfortable visiting, out in a garden ratherthan inside a synagogue,” says Phillip Rothman,the synagogue’s Executive Director. “And wewanted to respect the building’s past use as aQuaker meetinghouse by not putting up a lot ofplaques in the building.”

The centerpiece of their Garden ofRemembrance is a long limestone wall of names.Half of the wall features more than 1,300 names ofdeceased loved ones and the other half features300 names of individuals lost in the Holocaust.“Many members had grandparents who died inthe Holocaust and they didn’t even know if theywere buried. This became their final restingplace,” Rothman says. Neighbors and synagoguemembers can purchase a space for the names ofloved ones, for whom prayers are offered eachyear on the anniversary of their death. Thesynagogue recently created a Biblical Garden thatfeatures plants from the Old Testament, such as athorn bush—the “burning bush” of Moses and theexodus from Egypt story.

“The reason for a sacred space is to bewelcoming and the outside needs tocommunicate welcome as much as the insidedoes,” says the Rev. Richard McKeon, priest-in-charge at Zion Episcopal Church in Dobbs Ferry,NY, which recently dedicated a memorial gardenon its property to a congregant lost in theSeptember 11th attack on the World TradeCenter. “A memorial garden provides a place for

meditation andprayer—it’s the perfectmatch of purpose andform,” he says.

Zion EpiscopalChurch sits on twoacres of property in this19th-century HudsonRiver village. “It’s theonly green space indowntown Dobbs Ferryso we wanted to make itavailable to the public,”Rev. McKeon explains.The church exploredcreating a publicsculpture garden butfound the cost tooprohibitive. When acongregant asked Rev.McKeon to hold amemorial service for hispartner, MichaelLePore, who died in theSeptember 11thtragedy, Rev. McKeonsuggested creating amemorial garden inLePore’s honor. The

idea struck a chord with villagers who contributedgenerously to the garden. Landscape architect andZion member Elizabeth Martin designed a 1/4-acregarden with a low, curving stone wall that carrieswater into a reflecting pool. Dogwoods andJapanese maples encircle the garden, which wasdesigned to be low-maintenance. Since dedicatingthe memorial garden in September 2005, thechurch received two more memorial contributionsfor its outside space—a rose arbor and outsidealtar. “It’s a lovely way to use memorialcontributions that allows us to give somethingback to the community,” Rev. McKeon says.

Making a Picture Gallery for the Neighborhoodto Enjoy

Partners founder Tom Pike encouragescongregations to find creative ways to make theirproperty visually appealing even when it isn’tpossible to make it open to the public every day,(which involves added cost and potential liability.)He suggests the church light its stained glasswindows from the inside each night. “Setting thetimer to go on for an hour or so each eveningcreates a kind of picture gallery for thecommunity,” Rev. Pike says. He also encouragescongregations to light their steeples and domes sothe community can enjoy the architecturalfeatures of the building. (See article on HistoricBoston’s steeple lighting project on page 14.)

Creating “Outdoor Rooms” for MinistrySt. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem,

NC, is in the final stages of a comprehensive

First Presbyterian Church ofChicago operates threecommunity gardens and agreenhouse whereneighbors learn to growtheir own produce.

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from the street. “Part of a church’s presence inthe community is its building,” Salimbene says. “It has to be visible.”

The Sunday before the trees were cut down,the rector, choir and 50 congregants walked fromtree to tree sprinkling each with holy water andincense, and blessing it. Sunday school childrendrew pictures and notes saying goodbye andpinned them to the trees. The church distributeda flyer to neighbors explaining why the trees hadto come down and inviting them to the liturgy so“we didn’t get any angry phone calls fromneighbors,” Salimbene says. When new trees wereplanted a year later, St. John’s held a similarceremony welcoming the new trees.

Thanks to the underground drainage system, thechurch basement (which for many years was moldyand underutilized) is now regularly used byparishioners and community groups. A brick patiowith stone benches and a canopy of new maple treesinstalled in front of the church where the bluespruce stood provides the congregation with its firstlevel terrain for outside gatherings on the hillyproperty. “The project helped us reconnect with thecommunity,” Salimbene says. “Now the church ismore visible and the grounds are more inviting.”

Turning a Neglected Lot into a City Park When St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in

downtown Atlanta was built in 1906, theneighborhood surrounding it was residential. Inthe 1930’s, the neighborhood turned commercialand St. Luke’s became a commuter church. Withthe construction of an interstate highway, sunken25 feet below street level in the 1960s, theneighborhood became a no-man’s land, saysRandy Young, president of Young GoldsteinArchitects, Inc., and president of the Board ofTrustees of The Park at St. Luke’s, Inc., the non-profit entity that manages the park.

In the late 1980’s, parishioners soughtpermission from the Atlanta Department ofTransportation (DOT) to create a park in a 1.35-acre triangle of trash-strewn land betweenthe highway gulch and the church property. TheDOT granted St. Luke’s a long-term lease todevelop and maintain the land, and the churchtransformed it with grass, trees and shrubs, parkbenches and brick pathways. A few Sundays eachsummer, St. Luke’s holds Mass-on-the-Grass in thepark, which culminates in a picnic.

St. Luke’s has a history of communityoutreach, establishing one of the first communitykitchens in Atlanta and a job-training programthat was so successful it became a separate non-profit entity—The Atlanta Enterprise Center. St.Luke’s current ministry for the neighborhood’slarge homeless population includes a soupkitchen, a health clinic, post office andcounseling services. As a result of this prominentministry, the majority of people currently usingthe park are homeless. “We created the park as agift to the city,” Young says. “We wanted it to be

landscape master plan for its 5-acre property that includes a series of “outdoor rooms,” saysCatherine Hendren, Chair of the church’slandscape committee and its St. FrancisFellowship, an “earth ministry” committee thatwas formed to address global environmentalissues but soon shifted its focus to developing thechurch grounds as “a model for caring forcreation right here at home,” Hendren explains.When St. Paul’s began planning a $15 millionconstruction project to renovate its educationbuilding and add a new fellowship hall five yearsago, the St. Francis Fellowship made a compellingcase to include a comprehensive landscape plan.“We wanted to extend the ministry of the churchinto the community by creating inviting places tosit, congregate and exercise,” Hendren says. St.Paul’s hired Raleigh landscape architecture firmLittle & Little to design the master plan.

A key focus of the landscape plan wasrenovations to a sunken, multi-level “cloister”enclosed on three sides by the church andeducation building which was only accessiblefrom the church. Everyone in the parish had astory of being locked in the cloister at one timeor another, Hendren recalls, so making itaccessible from the outside was critical. A stonestaircase provides access to the cloister for thefirst time from the church’s exterior and joins allfour levels. New features include a baby’s gardenwith a rubber surface for crawling and an eight-inch grassy “hill” for toddlers to climb.

Before developing the plan, the church sought input from its 2,500 parishioners and over 100 residents from the historic West Endneighborhood, asking what they would most liketo see changed. An overwhelming majoritywanted St. Paul’s to change its parking lot—oneand a half acres of barren asphalt that dumped atorrent of water into the road during heavy rains.Little & Little designed a three-level terracedparking lot with extensive drainage system that islandscaped with rock walls, climbing vines, shrubsand trees.

Farewell Liturgy to the TreesWhen St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jamaica

Plain, MA, had to remove several prominent treeson its property as part of an undergrounddrainage and landscape renovation project fouryears ago, the congregation held a “Liturgy ofFarewell to Our Trees” and invited neighbors tojoin them. The trees were damaged by diseaseand hurricanes but there was much resistancefrom the congregation and neighbors to cuttingthem down, recalls Franklyn Salimbene, whochaired the Capital Planning Committee andcoordinated the landscape project. “A large bluespruce in front of the church was a play tree forthe Sunday school children—and many adultsremembered playing on it as children,” he says.However, the spruce and other trees had grownso tall that in summer the church was not visible

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available to everyone. While we didn’t create thepark for the homeless, we’ve accepted that theyare the main group using it.”

Striking a Balance Between Public and PrivateUse of Outside Space

Creating a welcoming place for the homelesshas not been without its challenges. In 2000, withpermission from DOT, the park board installed agate around the park and hired a part-time securityguard to discourage people from damaging thepark. “There was a great debate about the fence,”Young recalls. “The homeless are so often spokenof in a negative way and we wanted to make themfeel welcome but we also needed to control access.We have found that with some degree of securityand upkeep on our part, the homeless who use thepark respect it pretty well.”

Edward Daugherty, a landscape architect inAtlanta since 1952, has helped many congregationswith older properties strike a balance betweenpublic and private use of their outside space,including his own church, All Saints Episcopal.Built in 1904 on a small swath of land in what isnow the heart of midtown Atlanta, All Saints slowlyacquired 85 to 90 percent of an entire city blockthrough donations, Daugherty says. Like manyolder religious properties, the campus was notplanned, so the end result was an open square witha building on each corner, including a day carecenter and an inpatient rehab program. In the1970’s the church installed a 120-foot long archingwalkway made of cortense steel with a clear plastic

roof that links the north and south ends of theproperty and created several access points wherethe public can enter the gardens and cemetery inthe center of the campus. The archway wasdesigned to look like a “space diagram of a gothiccloister, intentionally ephemeral, to invite thepublic inside,” Daugherty says.

Some guests overstay their welcome, however.“In recent years, because people were using it as aurinal and an overnight camping space, we hadto put in discreet gates,” Daugherty explains.“Like All Saints, we’ve had to find a balancebetween opening the grounds during the daywith the necessity of closing them at night,”Daugherty says

Transforming Vacant Lots into Community Gardens

In the Woodlawn section of Chicago’s SouthSide, First Presbyterian Church of Chicagooperates three community gardens and agreenhouse that bring together the diverseresidents of this transitional neighborhood whichis emerging from 40 years of neglect. Once athriving shopping district, Woodlawn suffered aneconomic collapse in the late 1950s. Riots andarson in the 1960s and 1970s left 65 percent ofthe properties in the neighborhood burned outand vacant, recalls long time pastor Rev. GeraldWise. The population shrank by two thirds. Tohelp remaining residents, First Presbyteriancreated one of the first Head Start programs inthe country and reached out to Woodlawn

Martha Bailey enjoys aquiet moment in St.Johannes Lutheran Church’sMary Garden, one of atrinity of gardens forspiritual nourishment.

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residents with hot meals and food distribution. In the late1980s, the church began purchasing parcels of vacant landsurrounding its property through tax sales.

Partnering with the Center for NeighborhoodTechnologies, the church turned the vacant lots intocommunity gardens and a greenhouse to teach localresidents how to grow their own produce. The first garden,God’s Little Acre, is tended by senior citizens who harvesteverything from corn and squash to tobacco, cotton andpeanuts. Another garden, developed on the site of an oldEpiscopal church, is tended by nearby University of Chicagostudents, community residents and children from the HeadStart program. A third garden, overseen by a CommunitySupported Agriculture (CSA) learning center, growsvegetables that are distributed to neighborhood families.The gardens bustle with activity: CSA recently sponsored aconference on alternative energy sources there and studentsregularly hold fairs and art shows at the gardens.

“The gardens provide a non-threatening way to bringpeople in the community together,” Rev. Wise says. “On anygiven day you can see a great mix of people getting theirhands dirty together—people raised as share croppers inAlabama, students from the university, and the new influx ofAfrican American professionals who are part of thegentrification of the area.” Most gardeners are not membersof First Presbyterian. In the 1950’s the church had 3,000members. Now 200 people call the massive 1929 Gothicrevival church home. “We are growing again and thegardens have something to do with that,” Rev. Wise says.

Hints for Developing a LandscapePlan for Your Sacred Space❖ Involve the community and current users of your

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❖ Work with a professional landscape architect to designyour landscape plan.

❖ Consider practical issues such as maintenance,security, liability and the full range of potential usersof the space while developing the landscape plan.

❖ Use the landscape development as an opportunity toencourage multi-generational use of your space.

❖ Incorporate your congregation’s theological beliefs orfaith perspective into the landscape plan.

❖ Partner with local organizations such as horticulturalsocieties, community-supported agriculture groups,and government agencies such as parks, recreationand transportation departments.

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Book Review: How the Other Half Worships

In this sequel to his 1995 book, The New American Ghetto,Camilio Jose Vergara echoes the title of Jacob Riis’ pioneeringwork of photojournalism about New York City tenement lifein the late 1890’s, How the Other Half Lives. Vergara’s book, likeRiis’, will help Americans view and understand lives of whichmost of us know little.

In his introduction Vergara writes: “I was able to show howordinary structures assume, modify, and shed a religiouscharacter, how traditional churches—if they fail to adapt tonew congregations—are demolished, and how new buildingsare designed and built from the ground up as churches.”

Vergara’s gorgeous coffee table book is an examination ofinner city houses of worship and how they reflect thecongregants’ belief systems, religious practices, andconnections to their cultural roots. Rich with vibrant colorphotographs and stimulating text, How the Other Half Worshipsconstantly impresses readers with the resilience with whichpeople, transplanted to low-income urban centers from ruralAmerica and other countries, transform those neighborhoodsto reflect their culture and religious practices.

Available through Rutgers University Press(www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu), How the Other Half Worships willbe a welcome addition to the library of those interested in theintersection of architecture, culture, community and religion.

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Funding Brief

In the late 1980s, some of Boston’smost historically and architecturallysignificant houses of worship wereslipping into decline. A combination ofaging buildings, deferred maintenanceand changing demographics threatenedthe physical structure of these religiousproperties and jeopardized the socialservice programs housed there, many ofwhich provided a lifeline to surroundingneighborhoods. To stem the tide ofdecline, Historic Boston Incorporated(HBI), a non-profit that puts people andresources together to preserveendangered historic sites in Boston,created the Steeples Project. The projectprovides matching grants of up to$50,000 to Boston’s historic churchesand synagogues for technical assistance,major repairs and exterior lighting.

HBI’s Steeples Project was part of anational movement in the mid-1980s toearly 1990s, in which several local historicpreservation groups began providingtechnical assistance, training, seed grantsand capital grants to historic religiousproperties. What sets HBI apart fromother groups in this movement is its focuson lighting steeples, towers and domes toemphasize the importance of sacredplaces in the urban skyline. HBI brokeredan innovative community partnershipwith Boston’s Public Works Department,Street Lighting Division, to enable sacredplaces to draw power for exterior lightingprojects from the city lighting grid. “Thisis a miniscule cost to the city but it lifts a

great financial burden from thechurches, temples and synagogues,” saysJillian Adams, Project Manager for theSteeples Project. When the street lightscome on, so do the spotlights on thesteeples, towers and domes. In anotherexample of forward thinking, HBI wasthe first organization outside ofPhiladelphia to sponsor Partners’ New Dollars/New Partners for Your SacredSpace training for congregations.

With supervision from HBI staff andtrained preservation specialists, SteeplesProject grants fund comprehensivebuilding conditions surveys; major repairsto building envelopes; and professionallighting designers to develop and installexterior lighting schemes. The projectalso teaches congregations about long-term planning for building maintenanceand fundraising. Congregations canqualify for grants if they are:architecturally and historically significant,with steeples, towers or domes that arevisual landmarks; endangered due tomanagement, financial or demographicchallenges; and provide human servicesthat improve the quality of life intransitional Boston neighborhoods.

Since the Steeples Project started in1993, HBI has raised over $1.4 millionfrom 15 charitable organizations, nearlyall local to Boston. One of the greatestchallenges HBI faces is making the caseto funders for continued support. Bybuilding on the strengths of the project,paying close attention to feedback from

Editor’s Note: Sacred Places focuses ourFunding Brief this issue on a non-profitorganization that makes grants to historicreligious properties because its approach toraising continued support from foundationscan serve as a model for other communities.

Eliot Congregational Church, Roxbury,MA, developed this dramatic exteriorlighting scheme through a matchinggrant from HBI’s Steeples Project.

HistoricBoston’s SteeplesProject

Lights upthe Skyline


grant makers and keeping an eye on newfunding possibilities, HBI has successfullyfunded the project for 13 years.

Making the Case for Urban Religious Properties as Community Service Anchors

In developing its case for the SteeplesProject, HBI tied the buildings’ repairneeds to the critical role they played inthe community—housing social serviceprograms that strengthen and sustainstruggling inner-city neighborhoods.HBI drew on the research andpublication of its “Religious PropertyCasebook” (1991), which highlighted 40 endangered religious properties withhistoric and community significance, todemonstrate a critical need for theproject. Recognizing that some fundersare interested in restoring the outside ofhistorically significant buildings whileothers are interested in increasing thecapacity of congregations to providesocial services, HBI tailors eachapproach accordingly.

Connecting the Dots Between Peopleand Potential Funders

Since the early years of the project,HBI has followed what ExecutiveDirector Eric Breitkreutz calls the “sixdegrees of separation model. In thefundraising game it’s all who you know,”Breitkreutz says. “We have worked hardto find the connections between our

board members and foundations.” Asprojects funded through the SteeplesProject reach completion, HBI usestestimonials by dynamic religiousleaders expressing how HBI helpedthem save their church, often takingpotential funders on site visits to thesecongregations. HBI also conducts aformal evaluation of the project everytwo to three years and incorporatesthese findings into their fundraisingcase. Such evaluations allow HBI todemonstrate the effectiveness of theproject and get quotes that can be usedin future grant proposals.

Highlighting the Strengths of the Project

By paying close attention to feedbackfrom grant makers over the years, HBIhas learned which aspects of its projectare most attractive to funders andhighlights them in their case statement.“One of the strongest pitches we make isthat every dollar we take in goes directlyto the historic property,” Breitkreutz

explains. “HBI doesn’t take anyoverhead—that positions us very stronglywith funders so we put that in bold lettersin all our proposals.” Another strengththat HBI highlights for funders is thematching element—each congregation isrequired to match Steeple Project grantsdollar for dollar, so funders’ money isleveraged with other private and public

funds. For example, HBI has helpedgrantees successfully apply for more than $1 million in funds from theMassachusetts Historical Commission’sMassachusetts Preservation Projects Fund(MPPF) grants over the past 13 years.

Another element of the project thatfunders find attractive is the intensivetechnical assistance HBI staff provide toeach congregation. This hands-onproject oversight guarantees that theprojects succeed and that the money iswell managed. “We spell out the numberof staff hours (200 per project) that weprovide to each congregation in thebudgets we submit to funders so theycan see the resources we add to theircontribution,” Adams explains. “Wemake it clear to funders that the grantaward is just the first step,” she adds. “Wework with these congregations for years-changing the culture of the institution tomake building maintenance a priority.”

HBI Steeples Project grantee Second Church of Christ, Scientist in Roxbury, MA, gets a roof inspection.

HBI’s Keys to Success ❖ Tied the building repair needs to the

critical public value of the socialservices housed in religious properties

❖ Connected the dots between friendsof the organization and potentialfunders

❖ Used testimonials from dynamicreligious leaders who benefited fromthe project

❖ Evaluated and documented thesuccess of the project and includedthat in grant proposals

❖ Used feedback from grant makers tofurther refine its case

❖ Calculated staff hours contributed tothe project through technicalassistance and project oversight andincluded those amount as in-kindcontributions in proposal budgets

Nestled in the heart of historic Kingston, NY, Old DutchChurch serves a congregation that has worshipped here since1659, when the Dutch colonized the Hudson River Valley.While the current bluestone church was built in 1852 (thefourth church to be erected on nearly the same site), thecemetery surrounding the church is one of the oldest in theregion, with graves dating back to the 17th century, includingearly Dutch gravestones carved with images of skulls andcrossbones. The cemetery contains the graves of over 72 patriots from the Revolutionary War.

By the late 1990s, time and environmental elements hadtaken their toll on the ancient burial ground. Highconcentrations of acid rain from concrete factories along theHudson River deteriorated the gravestones. Pollutants andalgae stained the graves to the point where their inscriptionswere unreadable. Many grave markers were fractured. Othershad fallen down. To restore the cemetery and preserve it forfuture generations, Old Dutch Church called on the experts atMonument Conservation Collaborative (MCC), a Connecticut-based partnership whose diverse talents address the academic,artistic, scientific, mechanical and practical aspects of stonemonument conservation.

Founded 11 years ago by conservator and marblerestoration specialist Irving Slavid, MCC provides masterplans, makes recommendations for stone conservation,executes treatments and provides specialized courses andtraining. MCC’s goal is to preserve both the physicalsubstance and historic/artistic significance of monuments andgravestones, and to retard continued environmental decay.“Because of the close proximity of the visitor to the artifactand the high level of scrutiny given to the inscriptions,cemetery conservation practices demand closer tolerances ofcolor and texture than are typical in building preservation,”Slavid explains. To address this, Slavid’s team includes astonemason specializing in preservation and restoration and achemist who specializes in the analysis and preservation oftraditional construction materials.

MCC began work at Old Dutch Church cemetery in 1999.They photographed each grave marker, deciphered the worntranscriptions and created a complete map of the cemeteryand its holdings. They then developed a restoration plan.Between 2000 and 2003, MCC painstakingly repaired andconserved 149 gravestones. They re-set fallen grave markers,repaired fractured stones and cleaned and chemically treated

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Monument Conservation Collaborative:Preserving the Substance andSignificance of Gravestones

“Before” and “after” Monument Conservation Collaborative restored grave stones at Old Dutch Church inKingston, NY.

marble stones suffering from “sugaring”—when environmentalchemicals cause the marble to crumble away like sugar.

The majority of grave markers in the cemetery are carvedfrom local sandstone, which, because of its high clay content,shrinks and swells with the weather causing the stones to splitor “delaminate.” About 100 years ago, stewards of the cemeterytried to stem this deterioration by encasing the sides and topsof many gravestones in ornate copper caps. Because thecopper casings extended into the ground, they trappedmoisture and further damaged the stones. MCC carefullyremoved the copper caps; cleaned the gravestones of loosedebris, stains and biological growth; applied chemicalconsolidates to strengthen the stone; and filled cracks with afluid grout that allows the stone to continue to “breathe.”Once the stones were stabilized, MCC trimmed the bottom offthe copper caps to allow for the release of ground moistureand reattached them to the stones. By carefully digging aroundthe base of severely delaminated stones, MCC retrieved shardsof their stone faces and restored them so their inscriptionscould be read once again.

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