Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Receives Grant from the Marion Stedman Covington Foundation

STAFF REPORTS

LINCOLNTON – Historic St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Lincolnton has been awarded a $5,000 grant by the Marion Stedman Covington Foundation of Greensboro, North Carolina. The grant will support the installation of period-appropriate gutters and downspouts to the soffit area on all four roof elevations of the church’s sanctuary to reduce discoloration to the brick-veneered walls and divert rainwater away from the building foundation and crawlspace, and the repair of windows on the Parish House. This project is the result of a Historic Maintenance Preliminary Plan prepared for Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church by Restoration Specialist Rick Owens of Simpsonville, South Carolina in 2009.

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The church has organized a historic preservation committee and preservation fund for future preservation efforts that include the restoration of wood windows, glass panes, and trim on the church’s bell tower, and the restoration of stained glass windows with replacement of existing Plexiglas window guards with new polycarbonate or Lexan Clear guards on the church’s sanctuary. This committee is headed by Mary Whisonant and composed of the rector of St. Luke’s, the Rev. G. Miles Smith and members of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s parish, and community partners from Lincoln County Historical Association, Lincoln County Historic Properties Commission, local government officials, and other historic preservation advocates in Lincoln County.

The Marion Stedman Covington Foundation of Greensboro, North Carolina was established in 1986 to honor Marion Stedman Covington and her generosity, voluntarism and philanthropy to North Carolina’s historic preservation movement, art, education, and well being of others over the past fifteen years. The Covington Foundation provides grants to federally tax-exempt, non-profit organizations for historic preservation projects in North Carolina. For more information on the Marion Stedman Covington Foundation, contact Alexa S. Aycock, Grants Coordinator, The Marion Stedman Covington Foundation, P.O. Box 29304, Greensboro, NC, 27429-9304, (336) 282-0480.