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October 31, 2007

Holy Rosary's "new" dome...

Our Lady of the Rosary church on Esplanade Avenue finished re-coppering the dome on the top of the church this month. I remembered having taken a photo in 2004 of the church when the dome was green:

and here's one of the church with its new copper:

clicky for a larger image

I always have mixed emotions when a building gets its exterior copper "cleaned up." There's the part of me that loves seeing the new-ness of it, imagining what the building was like when it was first constructed. Still, when something you've seen as green all your life is all of a sudden much darker, it's an odd sensation.

Posted by YatPundit at October 31, 2007 8:55 AM

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