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The Building
Project
In 2005, Trinity Church completed nearly all of a $53 million preservation and
expansion effort, guided by preservation architects from Goody Clancy, to protect
the building's priceless art and architecture for generations to come. The
project encompasses the following: - Cleaning the murals and the surrounding
decoration by John La Farge inside the Central Tower, restoring their rich colors
to their original brilliance.
- Repairing the roof, wood trim, and stonework
on the Central Tower, making it again watertight.
- Creating a new heating
and cooling system by turning to an environmentally-sensitive, high-tech solution
and installing six geothermal wells to circulate water through a closed loop that
reaches 1,500 feet into the granite below Boston's Back Bay where temperatures
hover around 55 degrees.
- Excavating more than 13,000 square feet of new
space underneath the building complex (dubbed "the undercroft") and
commissioning contemporary art glass to grace the new area.
- Restoring
ten stained glass windows in urgent need of attention.
- Repairing two
Aeolian-Skinner organs.
- Completely renovating the adjacent Parish House,
which is used for classes, meetings, and rehearsals.
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