Our Lady of Loreto, shrouded and scaffolded but still standing
Temporary halt to demolition of historic Ocean Hill-Brownsville church
They’ve hung a funeral shroud on Our Lady of Loreto, but she’s not dead yet.
Catholic officials have obtained demolition permits for the historic century-old church at 126 Sackman St. in the Ocean Hill section of Brownsville.
And as an ominous prelude to tearing down the building, which is eligible for listing on the State and National Register of Historic Places, it has been ringed around with a fence and partly covered in scaffolding and construction netting.
The black netting surely looks like a shroud to members of the Brownsville Cultural Coalition, who have been campaigning to have Our Lady of Loreto landmarked and adaptively reused as a community cultural center.