✦Sanctuary
Keep the sanctuary intact as the building’s main room, with possibilities such as worship, music, reflection, readings, small gatherings, and other respectful uses.
Talk with us →Preserve the sanctuary. Keep it useful.
Pigtown Sanctuary Project is a family-led effort to preserve the 1857 church at 527 Scott Street. The sanctuary stays the main space. Ideas for the rest of the building include family stewardship, workshops, music, learning, and limited community use—all subject to the building’s condition, the budget, and required approvals.
The idea
The sanctuary is the point.
This is not a flip or a generic conversion. The goal is to care for the building, keep its historic character, and find practical uses that help support it.
Explore the vision →Possible uses
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⌂Family & workshops
Explore limited family living space where legally permitted, together with work areas for stained glass, lamp repair, welding, theater construction, and other hands-on projects.
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♪Arts & community
Consider music, art, learning, and neighborhood activity that fits the building, respects nearby residents, and receives the necessary approvals.
Talk with us →Principles
Preserve what matters. Be honest about what is possible.
The project begins with the sanctuary, the historic exterior, and the building’s place in Pigtown. Final plans will depend on inspections, title, financing, building code, and use approvals. For now, this site describes a vision—not a finished development plan.
People
The family behind the project
Pryce, Jeremy, and Noah bring complementary experience in preservation, caretaking, music, art, fabrication, education, and project planning.
Pryce
Pryce A. Mandel is an attorney, technology instructor, educator, and theater designer and technician. His work brings together research, teaching, lighting, sound, design, and hands-on production.
He has spent more than a decade restoring an 1862 house. That experience—and his belief that art and practical work are powerful ways to learn—guides his approach to the sanctuary.
Jeremy
Jeremy brings a practical focus on caretaking, repairs, and the daily work of keeping an old building useful.
He also brings music to the project. Possible plans include family or parsonage space and respectful rehearsal or performance in the sanctuary, where the building and required approvals allow.
Noah
Noah combines art, welding, fabrication, and repair with an MBA-trained eye for budgets, operations, and risk.
He is helping explore workshop and live-work possibilities that can support the building without pushing the sanctuary out of the center of the plan. Those ideas remain subject to the building’s condition and required approvals.
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Help preserve
the sanctuary
If you have photographs, neighborhood stories, contractor or preservation referrals, or practical advice, we would like to hear from you.
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pigtownsanctuary@gmail.com
Contact
Send a message
Have a local story, preservation lead, professional referral, or serious project question? Send us a message.
This site describes an early preservation plan. Any final use of the building will depend on title, survey, inspection, financing, code, zoning, occupancy, and other required approvals.