From Cleveland-The historic Emmanuel Episcopal Church, at East 86th and Euclid no longer exists, dismantled, piece by piece. It stood there for a century and was beyond repair.
Finished in 1902, Emmanuel Episcopal was built during a time when millionaires lived on Euclid Avenue and was once a place of worship for hundreds of Clevelanders.
But how the church started isn't as interesting as how it ended.
Too historic to bulldoze, but too far gone to save, it's was taken down stone by stone, and preserved.
Small hand tools and saw blades carefully cut the stone façade, wood work and religious pieces inside.
"There's a great deal of handcarved wood work. There's beautiful buttresses that will be salvaged and saved and used somewhere else down the line in Cleveland," says Mallory Haas, a historic archeologist with Cleveland State University.
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http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/features/2014/01/10/emmanuel-episcopal-church/4409573/
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