I love cornerstones on churches. I HATE when the original organizers' identities are sandblasted away like at this church, Trinity Baptist on Sidney. This botched attempt at covering up the name of the original church looks a little like White-Out.My message to the current churches is this: look, church people, you may own the building now but you cannot change who laid the cornerstone.
This church looks like it used to be a German church- maybe Lutheran or maybe German Evangelical (some of which are now Evangelical Lutheran and others are part of the UCC. I know about this because the guy who built this house was German Evangelical "Evangelische Kirche" in German).
If you are keeping track, I am collecting pictures of cornerstones, bad mansards and Lustrons.
I agree with you. Leave the corner stone alone. But, we do seem to think we can rewrite history even when it is carved in stone. Oh well, sad.
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