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explosion and had to meet in an elementary school for several months thereafter, the church continued to grow and, by its 60th anniversary in 1954, it had more than 500 members. Thereafter, with the organization of other
Presbyterian churches farther from the city center, membership at Third Presbyterian declined along with its urban neighborhood, and the church was eventually closed. By 2013, the vacant and vandalized building had effectively become a
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Preservation South and a local stained glass studio. After extensive repairs, Trinity Church celebrated its fifth anniversary and the centenary of the building in 2016, and the restoration won a State Preservation Honor Award. The chair of the Greenville County Historic Preservation
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Laundry across the street severely damaged the building, including shifting the octagonal-shaped roof and stressing the support beams in the ceiling—structural problems that remained unaddressed for another 70 years. Although Third Presbyterian was uninsured for damage done by the
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Foothills Presbytery (PCUSA) agreed to sell the property to Trinity Church of Greenville, a small, interdenominational assembly founded in 2011 and led by the Rev. Toni Pate. Although the church had fewer than 75 members, a fund drive brought in more $ 150,000 from the community
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In 1916 the church began construction of a new building at what was then the corner of
Buncombe and Echols Streets, the same year that the session changed the church name to Third Presbyterian. The auditorium, designed according to the
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