Interventions to Protect
James Street Baptist Church, 1882
Architect: James Connolly
ACO Hamilton joined community opposition to demolition of 80% of the church (described as a “minor variance”) to allow construction by Stanton Renaissance of a condo tower to be named “The Connolly.”
Demolition in 2014 left the tower and narthex still standing in a field of rubble. June 22, 2017 the project went into receivership. In 2018 it was taken over by Hue Developments of Vietnam, “one of Southeast Asia’s top developers.” McCallumSather architects of Hamilton will oversee preservation of the “collective cultural heritage of the building.”
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