Here are a few more pictures - an update on Sunday, February 21. We're just over a quarter of the way through the project - about six weeks in and perhaps fifteen weeks to go. The contractor anticipates that this phase, consisting of the entire upper floor of the parish house, will be finished toward the end of May. Today we see clear progress on the bathrooms. In the picture with a wall opening framed mostly by bricks, some sticking out of alignment, you are seeing the roughed in mens' and women's bathrooms through what will become their new doors. The old doors to the library are being replaced with openings in a slightly different spot, and enlarged to allow for wheelchair access to the restrooms.

One picture is of a new door opening into the Chapel Lounge. Gone will be the large windows into the hallway, each one replaced with a large door. So there will be a total of three entry doors into the chapel lounge from what will be our new hospitality space (where the old offices were). This will help a great deal with the bottleneck of people trying to get into the chapel lounge for receptions after events and worship services such as Easter Vigil. In the rear of this photo you can make out the two new openings which will become the doorways from the Chapel Lounge into the East Assembly Room, allowing us to open that area easily for large receptions.

One photo is taken from the little kitchen looking toward the new framed-in door to the coat room. If you look carefully through the framing at the upper right of the photo you can see the housing for a re-opened skylight. There used to be a skylight in the coat room, but it was closed several years ago. We will have a total of two skylights in the coat room are to add natural light to what has been quite a dark space.