Chapter Room Restoration Phase 1 Completed

Thank you very much to everyone who showed up to the House for the work weekend. Phase 1 is complete. The chapter room has been deconstructed. The benches and ceremonial fixtures have been set aside for renovation later and the bench platforms have been ripped up and discarded. It is quite the site seeing the room completely bare and empty.

Phase 2 will begin as soon as possible and includes fixing the current water situation near the alter, waterproofing the entire room and formally decommissioning the “fire escape”. We opened that door today for what must have been the first time in over 30 years. Our goal is to have phase 2 completed by the end of this Spring so we can move on to restoring the fixtures and rebuilding the room.

The next work weekend is tentatively scheduled for May. We already have a list of projects that need to be addressed assuming all goes according to schedule. If anything, today we proved that with just 10 to 15 volunteers we can get a lot accomplished in under 6 hours.