Press Releases

Crews salvage Windows to History

By Terry Wilson – Chicago, IL

Tribune Staff Writer

Inside the hull of a North Side church that looked as if it had been ground zero for a fairly large bomb, a small crew of workers chiseled stone Saturday to remove and save valuable stained-glass windows.

Working in Buena Memorial Presbyterian Church, 4301 N. Sheridan Rd., the workers [...]

New life is found for Catholic church artifacts

By Craig Smith, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, December 5, 2011

As a seminarian, the Rev. Joseph McCaffrey knelt before a tabernacle in the chapel at Mercy Hospital, where his mother was being treated for a brain tumor, and prayed for her recovery.

Later, when he was named pastor of Ss. John and Paul Church in Marshall, he noticed [...]

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 a recent one-week span, the NADC member completed three salvage operations in Chicago on structures built in the early part of the century.

King Richard’s took advantage of an unseasonably warm spring week to mobilize its [...]