Press Releases
New 3.5 Foot Monstrance from KR Arrives in its New Home.
Project #: P-2033
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina
Project Type: Altar ware, Monstrance
Date: January 2023
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King Richard’s Liturgical Design & Contracting, is brought in to manage the restoration and removal of a 19th century reredos which includes six tons of marble and mosaics for Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Ayer Mansion in Boston.
Project #: P-2031
Location: Boston, MA
Project Type: Removal, Reredos
Date: November 2021
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Statue from KR travels to Convocation in Charlotte, NC.
Project #: P-2023
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Project Type: Statuary
[...]The Citizen’s Voice – Scranton, PA
Relics from shuttered churches get new life BY JACOB SEIBEL, STAFF WRITER Published: March 8, 2015 A third-generation parishioner stood [...]
Winfield parish rescues church’s old frames for a picture-perfect ending
Winfield parish rescues church’s old frames for a picture-perfect ending Fourteen historic frames have been returned to St. John the [...]
Berkshire religious items find a new home
December 16, 2010 Â JoAnn at the altar in Mississippi JoAnn Hauge of Lanesboro was excited when she opened the [...]
King Richard’s Adds Well-Respected Liturgical Designer to Staff
King Richard’s Adds Well-Respected Liturgical Designer to Staff Atlanta, October 18th, 2010 Los Angeles based liturgical designer and consultant Rhett [...]
King Richard’s Religious Artifacts Retrieval and Restoration: Antique Religious Items
By Shawn Tribe Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 It’s always with bitter-sweetness that one sees sites such as these; bitter because [...]
The Most Beautiful Adoration Chapel In America?
By Larry and Mary Sue Eck Photos by Denis Kubat The pictures, good as they are, don’t do it justice. [...]
Baltic, Connecticut Church Gets a Major Altar-ation
By Ted Mann The Day of New London Sprague — Frank Caron stood near the sanctuary of Saint Mary of [...]
St. Anne stained glass to be sold off
St. Anne stained glass to be sold off By Shawn Boburg LAWRENCE – Even before yesterday, the interior of the [...]
Far away, treasures of faith resurrected
Far away, treasures of faith resurrected By Dennis Shaughnessey LOWELL – A glimpse through the glass doors at the Sacred [...]
St. Stephen church to be razed
St. Stephen church to be razed Former parish site will serve spiritual, educational and social needs of neighborhood SOUTH BEND [...]
Trucks haul off church memories
Trucks haul off church memories By Steve Barnes WATERVLIET — As twilight settled on Saturday night, workers from an Atlanta [...]
Historic bells to ring in new church
Historic bells to ring in new church By Joanne Glamm A crane lifts more than a ton of century-old metal [...]
A Generous Gift
A Generous Gift Submitted by Fr. Eugene Harrison Fr. Richard Thibodeau, pastor of St. Alphonsus Parish, was pleased to receive [...]
Saint Aloysius Parish…reborn!
Saint Aloysius Parish…reborn! By Hugh McNichol Part of Gray’s Ferry in Dixie! Growing up in Gray’s Ferry had its great [...]
‘A dream come true’
‘A dream come true’ By Gretchen R. Crowe Day turned into night as parishioners of St. Theresa Parish in Ashburn [...]
Window to the soul
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Rescuing, Restoring, Recirculating
Resucing, Restoring, Recirculating ATLANTA – Rick Lair is a man on a mission. He drives 100,000 miles a year, buying, [...]
St. Benedict’s Gives Church Fresh Anniversary Look
St. Benedict’s Gives Church Fresh Anniversary Look By Stephen O’Kane JOHNS CREEK – It was only four months ago that [...]
Saints of the Americas Celebrated in Peoria
Saints of the Americas Celebrated in Peoria By Jack Wintz, O. F. M. About a year ago, Sacred Heart Church [...]
A church is reborn in Peoria
A church is reborn in Peoria By Toni Cashnelli The view from the choir loft at the renovated Sacred Heart [...]
New baptismal font dedicated at St. Mary’s Assumption
New baptismal font dedicated at St. Mary’s Assumption By Beth Donze On Dec. 2, Redemptorist Father Richard Thibodeau, pastor of [...]
Artifacts from St. John Cantius in Northampton serving new purpo
Artifacts from St. John Cantius in Northampton serving new purposes By Chad Cain NORTHAMPTON – St. John Cantius parish may [...]
Glorious renewal of God’s house
Glorious renewal of God’s house By Ann Carey After decades of sparseness, new church construction and renovations reconnect with symbols [...]
Disposing of Catholic Sacred Articles on Ebay
Dispoing of Catholic Sacred Articles on Ebay By Hugh McNichol As a Catholic Church, we need to be quite sensitive [...]
Annunciation Parish transforms school into church
Annunciation Parish transforms school into church By Terry Dickson KILN – From the outside, Annunciation School resembles your typical school [...]
St. Joseph in Charleston prepares for renovation of Pews
St. Joseph in Charleston Prepares for Renovation of Pews By Amy Wise Taylor – The Catholic Miscellany Charleston – St. [...]
Diocesan feast day chosen
Diocesan feast day chosen By Dan McWilliams Visitors to the Chancery office in Knoxville now have a tangible reminder of [...]
Building a church … lets buy back our Catholic heritage!
Building a church … lets buy back our Catholic heritage! A marble Angel of the Lord (1 of 2 angels)salvaged [...]
Catholic treasures … returned to Catholic Churches!
Catholic treasures … returned to Catholic Churches! As a Catholic Church, we need to be quite sensitive about the disposition [...]
New altar arrives from overseas
New altar arrives from overseas By Jerry Buxton Sewerd — The waiting was over at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. Father Rene [...]
Stained glass
Stained glass “a way of sharing the faith” By Leslie Renken No one knows who made the first stained glass [...]
Recycled church artifacts become financial blessing
Recycled church artifacts become financial blessing By Richard Robbins Looking for a new processional cross for the chapel at the [...]
All Souls Dedicates New Church
All Souls Dedicates New Church By Betty Ann Weber Sanford’s All Souls Church was 121 years in the making. On [...]
When Churches Close
When Churches Close By Joseph Pronechan ALPHARETTA, Ga. — When some churches were closed and their interiors sold, confessionals with [...]
As City Parishes Close, Their Artifacts Find new Life in the Sub
As City Parishes Close, Their Artifacts Find New Life in the Suburbs By Michael Alison Chandler For the first 20 [...]
Parishioner fundraisers help pay for upgrades, renovations
Claire Pilon – Canada Parishioners of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Chelmsford gathered on the weekend to celebrate the [...]
Need a griffin?
By Mary Daniels As an environmental contractor who does asbestos and lead paint removal for demolition cmopanies, Rick Lair came [...]
Niche Market Success
Brookhaven BuzzAtlanta, GA Tim Kelly Rick Lair, owner of King Richard’s Religious Artifacts, is a man on a mission. He [...]
Church artifacts migrate
Church artifacts migrate By The Washington Times Sunday – June 11,2006 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The altar was old. It [...]
Glorious Renewal of God’s House
Glorious renewal of God’s House After decades of sparseness, new church construction and renovations reconnect with symbols and styles of [...]
Crews salvage Windows to History
By Terry Wilson – Chicago, IL Tribune Staff Writer Inside the hull of a North Side church that looked as [...]
Saving Another Historic Theater
King Richard’s, LTD., a Chicago-based architectural salvage firm, continues its efforts to rescue valuable artifacts from the wrecking ball. In [...]
New life is found for Catholic church artifacts
By Craig Smith, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEWMonday, December 5, 2011 As a seminarian, the Rev. Joseph McCaffrey knelt before a tabernacle in [...]