Church makes way for housing development on Madison WI east side (September construction site visit

 

8 months later, the property has been fenced-in.   That's all.

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Rendering:  Madison Plan Commission

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Wisocnsin State Journal, 8/12/2022

After drilling a hole in the top, Meyer used a power nibbler to peel off the top of the sealed box, which contained no stock certificates or mummies, as one onlooker suggested. There was a 1967 church directory, a yellowed page from the Aug. 24, 1968, Cap Times, a 60th-anniversary souvenir booklet, a mimeographed newsletter, and certificates of blessing for the church.

Original 1/21/2022 post starts here

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Wisconsin State Journal, 1/20/2022

fter its congregation merged with a church at another site, a developer is proposing to demolish Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on the East Side for an estimated $8 million, three-story housing project with underground parking. 

The congregation, which had struggled to make ends meet over the past decade and even sold its organ to cover debts, had an “intimate and honest conversation” in December 2016 about what it meant to be a church that centered on fellowship, being in community and living together in faith, but not the need to stay in the building at 2165 Linden Ave., Pastor Pat Siegler said.

 

Next in line?  These are the last 2 houses on the block.