The beautiful new oak floor is now stained and finished.

The new oak floor is installed, stained, and finished; the front door has been repaired; the sound system is being updated; the pavers for the the front walkway have been laid. During the coming week the final work getting ready for the city building inspection will be completed. The end of the building project is getting close.

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Installing a floor is like assembling a huge jigsaw puzzle. Here the installer has rows of floorboards sized and ready to nail in.

Floor installation began Tuesday, February 23 and was substantially complete by the end of the day on Thursday. The floor material is rift sawn, white oak. Producing a highly regular, vertical grain pattern with no knots or blemishes, the rift cut is similar to quartersawn. (Quartersawn oak is also used in the organ case.)

The picture above shows the floor as it is being installed. The next tasks include staining the wood in a shade consistent with the pews, posts, and other wood elements in the nave. The floor should be completely finished by the end of the first week of March.

The new floor in the "parclose" chapel in the renovated south transept includes steps into the chancel.

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Let there be light!

February 3, 2010

There’s light in the nave and lots of progress to see. The pendant lights, seen above, have been cleaned and are brighter in every way. Atop the pendants, “the hats” turned out to be red under 50 years of dirt. Inside the pendants, a new configuration of bulbs will shine light both up and down [...]

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God in the Details

January 22, 2010

The adage about finding God in the details will be a major part of the story of the renovation of St. Peter’s Church. Around every corner of the renovated nave and soon-to-be-installed organ will be another small and beautiful detail to behold.
The lancet windows in the former narthex will be just such a detail. For [...]

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January Update

January 22, 2010

Since the holidays have been over, a lot of progress has been made on the work inside the Church. As this picture shows, with Project Manager Mike Davis and Treasurer Dave Lavoie in the foreground, the rose window’s protective covering has been removed and the large scaffolding sitting in the “narthex” space has been disassembled. [...]

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Group from St. Peter’s attends Open House for Opus 136

November 15, 2009

A group of hardy travelers followed the remnants of Hurricane Ida up the East Coast for a whirlwind trip to the workshops at C. B. Fisk in Gloucester, Mass. This past weekend was Fisk’s Open House, an event held in honor of each instrument they build and the clients who commissioned it. So, Opus 136 [...]

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Traffic Stops on Seventh Street

October 25, 2009

Saturday morning was a busy one while the building contractor and mechanical contractor literally stopped traffic for the delivery of the church’s new chiller. Not too different from a home system, the chiller is used to produce chilled water that passes through a condensing system in order to make cold air for the air conditioning.
To [...]

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Highly visible progress on both Church and Organ

September 14, 2009

After a summer of mostly detail work in the renovation of the church and building of a new organ, these two photos show some exciting (and visible) progress.
At the C. B. Fisk Workshops in Gloucester, Mass., Nami Hamada has been principally responsible for the building of the keyboard, shown mostly completed here. More clearly seen [...]

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Fisk Tour Showcases All Aspects of Opus 136 Under Development

July 22, 2009

Vestry Member Maria Long and Building Committee Member Rob Smith took time out from their summer vacation in Maine to visit the workshops of the C. B. Fisk Company where St. Peter’s new organ, Fisk Opus 136, is being built. Outside of Boston, in Gloucester, Mass., Fisk’s facility encompasses all aspects of the organ building [...]

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Conversion of the Transept Begins

July 16, 2009

With the pipe organ and choir seating moving to the rear of the nave, that space will be available for seating. First, with the removal of the organ console and choir risers, that area is being provisioned to mirror the transept seating that’s adjacent to the existing chancel. Likewise, with the removal of the organ [...]

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