Windows Stolen from First Congregational
We just received word that five stained glass windows were stolen from the First Congregational Church at the corner Division and J Street. This includes two sections of a twelve foot window in the sanctuary. These windows are one of a kind and should be easily identifiable. If you see any suspicious historic windows wandering around your neighborhood, the church would love to know about it.
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9 comments
N Not Me November 3, 2008
All the stolen crap from the Elks Club showed up at Sanford and Sons Antiques. I’m sure some POS will sell them to an antique store near by.
C Chikurt November 3, 2008
Ive notified our buyers at Second Use to watch out for them. We get a drivers license # from everyone we purchase from. I believe all the major building salvage places are required to, I don’t know about antiques dealers though. It would be good to get some pictures so we know what to look for as we get stained glass pretty frequently.
T Thorax O'Tool November 3, 2008
How the hell do you steal a 12’ stained glass window?
How do you steal 5 sections? Those windows are kinda not designed to be removable.
R RR Anderson November 3, 2008
godless criminals! I will pray for the safe deliverance of the holy stained glass.
R RR Anderson November 3, 2008
Thorax, are you suggesting an inside job?
T Thorax O'Tool November 3, 2008
Well, if the congregation is in decline, then so might be Sunday collections…
Ok, no I don’t suggest an inside job outright. But I wonder how on earth not only do you remove said windows in an intact manner but do it and not be noticed? With all the people in the Greater Stadium District, wouldn’t you think someone would find it suspicious to see individual(s) removing windows from a church?
Even if they posed as workers with uniforms and vans, tools and such, that proves it was a detailed, planned job.
Something seriously fishy here.
F Friend of friends of the 1st Con November 3, 2008
Really, even without conspiracy theories, something like this isn’t as surprising as it seems, with, for but one example, all of the metal thefts recently, including another historical chuch that got broken into and had many relics stolen (most recovered later). There are a lot of loosers out there as well as a lot of apathy. And the location of First Con isn’t totally prominent. Another example – There’s a construction site nearly in the heart of the Greater Stadium District that you mention that recenty got cleaned out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of material and equiment in an operation that would have taken a lot of time and made a lot of noise. This stuff happens, people sleep, and scum get away with it. It is hoped that with the honorable salvage yards and antique stores out there, the windows will turn up.
F Friend of friends of the 1st Con November 4, 2008
I have learned a few more details – The theft could have happened as long ago as last April, and the windows were stolen from the storage room were they had been rebuilt and were awaiting re-installation.
R RR Anderson November 4, 2008
ah ha! now the story is the windows were stolen from the ‘storage room’ well then how are we to believe the windows really ever existed in the first place? hmm?
perhaps this story has been hatched as patter in the same vein of a street magician redirecting our attention elsewhere all the while our beloved gold pocket watch goes “liberated”
I for one am tired of these stolen church relic fantasies.
Where does it end? a missing pope mummy?
anyway remember the Young Sherlock Homes movie directed by Spielberg (non-christian) where the priest hallucinates a stain-glass window crusader knight leaping from the glass… to pursue his victim in a 2 dimensional/early computer graphics way with eventual bloody demise? Well what if it is the same thing happening here?