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Sale of All Saints Church, Highland Park: Availability of furnishings and supplies
Background: In September 2007 the members of All Saints Church, Highland Park had their last worship service after having voted to close. The 224th Diocesan Convention declared All Saints Church extinct.
A proposal from Greenfaith and the Reformed Church of Highland Park Affordable Housing Corporation to purchase the church property and develop it as housing for homeless veterans and offices for Greenfaith was endorsed by Bishop Councell and Diocesan Council, and the Trustees of Church Property entered into a contract of sale on June 30, 2008. On April 27, 2009 the Zoning Board of Highland Park may vote the final approval for this project, which will hopefully clear the way for settlement soon thereafter.
If this sale does close, most of the furnishing and supplies in the church building will not be needed by the new owner, and are not part of the sale. Below is a description of those items. For the moment, I will take “indications of interest” for any items, and after a firm settlement date and financing has been confirmed, I will announce one or more days when the items can be picked up.
Where I list measurements, they are approximate, my best guess. I took many pictures and the ones I include below should give you a visual of some of the key items. The number of the picture of an item appears next to the listing in parenthesis. Click the number to see the photo.
1. Main Altar: 8.5 feet wide, 30 inches deep (0244, 0245)
2. Two “three seat” stalls – 7 feet wide (0232): requested
3. Credence stand
4. Kneeler (0233): requested
5. Chair with kneeler, red leather cover on seat and back
6. Four dark wood choir pews (8.5 inches wide) and two front boards
7. 30 pews (10.5 inches wide) and two front boards (0236, 0237): some requested
8. Austin Organ Company 1928 two manual pipe organ with 6 pedals, 11 swell and 9 great stops (0238, 0240, 0241, 0242): requested
9. Painting of All Saints Church by B. Schmidt: requested
10. 4 maple wood “flower” stands. 16 inches square, 2 feet high: requested
11. White baptismal font with wooden cover and cross: possibly requested
12. Small altar — 4 feet wide, 1 foot deep — altar and tabernacle requested separately
13. Drop leaf table and glass cover
14. Table and cross
15. Side Altar on wheels, 5 feet wide, 30 inches deep (0235): requested
16. Wooden reading lectern
17. Two hymn boards
18. Seven-drawer sacristy dresser for Altar hangings 5.5’ wide, 30” deep
19. Small “dresser” with wall mount mirror. (0230)
20. 35 blue stackable plastic with metal tubing chairs: requested
21. Eight meeting room wooden arm chairs
22. Two oval dining tables (not matching)
23. 10 wooden tables, folding legs, each 8 feet long: requested
24. Two high back wooden chairs (different heights) (0231)
25. One wooden rocking chair with cushions
26. Hotpoint refrigerator
27. A few dark wood assorted stands.
28. Two upright vacuum cleaners: 1 taken, 1 requested
29. Two Processional Crosses (not matching): 1 taken, 1 requested
Below is a list of items that have been brought to Diocesan House and are available now:
30. 35 Red 1940 full Harmony Hymnals (very good condition)
31. 30 red 1979 Books of Common Prayer (good and very good condition): all taken
32. 49 blue 1982 Hymnals (good condition): all taken
33. Two blue Books of Common Prayer
34. One Lectern NRSV 3-year Prayer Book lectionary
35. One Large Print Book of Common Prayer, 3-hole punched (8.5 x 11)
36. 5 assorted purple cassocks, 1 red cassock, 1 black cassock – black cassock taken
37. Two black cassocks, each with purple or red piping and buttons
38. One black cope
39. Three white (overhead, chasuble style) cassocks
40. Three white surplices (different lengths): 1 taken
41. Two purple hoods
42. One purple “overlay,” perhaps to go over plain choir alb.
Items 30 through 42 are available for the taking now, not dependent upon the sale of the building. Items 1 through 29 will be available once I can confirm that they will not be needed for the sale of the building. I hope to have that confirmation some time in May.
Please pardon my limited, and possibly boorish, description of some of the ecclesiastical furnishings and vestments. I’m not good at the “names” of all this stuff. The vestments are all in need of washing or dry cleaning. If you think they can be used again, take any of them.
Please let me know of your interest in any of these items. Feel free to examine the items at Diocesan House, and let me know if you want to take them.
Thanks for your help.
Lee Powers
Canon to the Ordinary
609-394-5281, ext 21.
lpowers@newjersey.anglican.org