Stay in a reworked church with stained glass home windows, hovering ceilings for $275K: Cool Areas

Inbuilt 1896, with the cornerstone laid on Dec. 23, this former Methodist Episcopal church offered a spot of religious consolation for generations of residents within the Sherman’s Valley group of Blain, Perry County.

On a sunny day, the whole inside of the house is illuminated in lovely colours because the solar works its means throughout the sky, shining by means of the stained glass on each wall of the house.

Over the previous a number of years, the householders have rigorously restored the inside into a snug, traditionally correct dwelling house.

One of the simplest ways to explain it’s as if a brand new dwelling was constructed inside the unique 2,429-square-foot construction.

The roof was changed in 2016, and new electrical, plumbing, hvac, and septic have been put in.

The basement has been wired, insulated, waterproofed and painted.

Though the unique steeple over the bell tower was eliminated in some unspecified time in the future, the bell remains to be in place with a functioning rope that goes up into the entrance entry vestibule ceiling, and which nonetheless rings the bell when pulled.

The house owners saved the unique hovering wooden ceilings and headboard paneling, had all 26 authentic stained glass home windows reglazed, and even have authentic furnishings from the church.

A few of the furnishings and different gadgets embrace the communion desk, pulpit, piano, hymn boards, providing plates and books from the group library that was primarily based within the church.

As is frequent in some church buildings, every stained glass window has a bit of glass on the backside with the title of a church member or group (such because the Women Support Society and the Sabbath College) that donated for the acquisition of the window.

Some home windows are in remembrance, comparable to a window within the toilet that’s in reminiscence of Katie B. Boyer, a parishioner’s daughter who died Jan. 22, 1895, at age 14.

The house owners have researched all the stained glass home windows which are named after parishioners, and positioned a framed photograph of the the particular person, couple, household, or if none was discovered, a photograph of the gravestone in reminiscence of the individuals who made the church their religious dwelling.

A few quarter-mile from the house on Route 274 east, is the church cemetery, The Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, excessive up a hill on the correct facet, the place many parishioners are buried. That is the place pictures of the headstones have been obtained.

The cemetery is presently maintained by the United Methodist Church Convention trustees.

Correct church-style lighting was discovered and put instead of the wrong lights that had been put in over time.

Three doorways within the Sunday college facet of the church, which has been walled off to type a big pantry space, full tub and bed room with walk-in closet, have been sourced from a church in Newport that was demolished.

A one-of-a-kind headboard for the bed room, product of church organ pipes, was discovered from a church in Pittsburgh, and is completely put in on the wall.

Different items of furnishings match the time interval and performance of the property, with some included within the sale, whereas different items might be negotiated into the acquisition.

The inside has been reworked into a big open idea space with an workplace space on the nook desk by the vestibule, a big eating room desk defining that space, a curved sofa meeting mimicking the form of the unique curved altar rail within the entrance of the room, which defines the household room.

The kitchen is outlined by a big island product of an vintage chest of drawers with a stone high that matches the stone counter tops sitting atop the customized cupboards made by an area craftsman.

To the left of the kitchen, constructed into the far nook, is a personal partial tub.

To the rapid proper of the kitchen, earlier than the door resulting in the total tub and bed room, is a laundry space, located close to the big walk-in pantry.

The complete tub is spacious and, like the remainder of the house, evokes the historical past of the church all through the room.

The bed room has hovering ceilings, related in top to the remainder of the church, and is bathed in mild from three huge stained glass home windows.

Curiously, the house is positioned throughout the road from the Grace Brethren Church, and is about 4 properties down from Route 274.

The surface of the property is landscaped with sod, timber, shrubs and perennials. A tributary to Sherman Creek runs by means of neighboring properties inside listening to distance of the yard.

Blain itself is a small borough in Perry County with a inhabitants of 227 residents in line with the 2020 census. The city helps companies comparable to a sporting items retailer, Blain Provide farm and residential provide retailer, market and the Blain lodge and restaurant.

An indication on Route 274 on the borough line states that Blain was settled in 1763 by James Blaine of Londonderry, Eire. The city had a number of names till being included in 1877 because the borough of Blain.

The property is a brief stroll from the restored Blain practice station, which is the one depot restored to its authentic situation of the 17 stations of the previous Newport & Sherman’s Valley Railroad. The slender gauge railroad ran on 29 miles of monitor laid from Newport to New Germantown. The railroad operated from the early Nineties to the early Thirties. In 1934 the rails have been eliminated.

Blain Elementary College, a part of the West Perry College District, is inside strolling distance.

The city is about 10 miles from Loysville, and 19 miles from the county seat of New Bloomfield.

That is solely the third church to be transformed right into a dwelling house that has been featured in Cool Areas.

Check out one other transformed church in Loysville, Perry County that was featured in 2022:

Stay on this 170-year-old church with commanding views, authentic stained glass for $600K: Cool Areas

And this church in Lewisberry, York County:

Creatively transformed church on wooded lot boasts nice room, ‘she’ shed and koi pond: Cool Areas

Situated at 56 Church Street in Blain, Jackson Township, Perry County, the house is listed at $275,000 by agent Marty Morrow with Inexperienced Acres Realty Firm.

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