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This church was in Ballard: Grace Gospel Church. Although the church been used since the time it was built in 1906, the current congregation chose to sell the building due to the fact that the “church body had gotten smaller, the repairs to [the] older building were costly and our resources were slim,” states Pastor Sharon, on the church’s website. She went on to say,”We could no longer ignore the situation we were in and after many congregational meetings we entered into a sales agreement to sell our beloved building.”
Although submitted as a potential nominee for historic building designation, the building was not deemed historically significant by the Department of Neighborhoods according to the Land Use Bulletin Decision on the City of Seattle’s website. Earthwise also searched the Washington State Digital Archives in vain for any historic photos of the church (and we may have also gotten a bit distracted by all of the FREE, downloadable, high quality historic photos of Seattle, Tacoma and all over Washington State that are available online here).
Prior to demolition, Earthwise crews have been salvaging materials from this church. We managed to save many original elements of the building, including: maghogany church pews, opaque ‘pinwheel’ glass church windows, entry and interior doors with hardware, and what is likely to be the original lighted cross emblem, which would have been used on the exterior of the church but removed and placed in attic storage at some point in time. These items will live on in our community through reuse.
For more information on the move of the congregation of Grace Gospel Church, visit the website. These items were salvaged by Earthwise in Seattle; questions about these items? Feel free to contact the Seattle location by phone (206) 624-4510 or email at seattle@ewsalvage.com. This article was written by Kadence Englehardt, Earthwise Salvage.