The building work group met on the evening of May 13 with all but one member present. There was a very lively discussion of how renovation of the Parish Hall could affect the work of Downtown Outreach.
One option is the creation of a multi-purpose room on the lower level below the Parish Hall. This room could be used for meetings, choir rehearsal, education, child care, a bride's room and a dining room for Downtown Outreach's Saturday hot lunch program.
There are a lot of questions about what would be required in order to make it possible to serve lunch on the lower level, with the kitchen upstairs. A preliminary floor plan and rendering have been created by Julie Arntson, an associate of Susan Richards Johnson & Associates, architects for the renovation project. Those will accompany an upcoming post on this blog. Discussion of all aspects of the Parish Hall renovation will continue. The meeting last night identified a nubmer of issues requiring additional research and observation.
The original drawings of the church building and Parish Hall created in 1886 by architect William Halsey Wood have been discovered and the Building Work Group enjoyed seeing them at the meeting. Some pictures of those drawings accompany this posting.
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