Citizen And Musican Save Landmark Church

Musican/Artist Ani DiFranco and manager Scot Fisher return to where their hearts and roots are to save a landmark.

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July 30, 2003, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Facing the wrecking ball a local citizen and artist of Buffalo, NY fulfill a dream of saving a landmark. " We sat recently in the church's horseshoe-shaped balcony, overlooking what's soon to be a concert hall. Outside, workers in hard hats climbed scaffolds running 75 feet up the Medina sandstone steeple. The place that seven years ago had a date with the bulldozers is, thanks to Fisher and DiFranco, being revived as a performance space, record company headquarters and new home for Hallwalls arts center.Call it a resurrection."

Thanks to Kevin Sarkisian

Read the full story: A million buys a church and more

Monday, July 28, 2003 in The Buffalo News

History / Preservation New York

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