{"id":220,"date":"2009-06-10T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:02:23","slug":"episcopal-church-of-america-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/episcopal-church-of-america-to-build.html","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Church (ECUSA) to build new Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600-h\/episcopal-church-archives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345739776138288466\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; cursor: hand; height: 274px; text-align: center;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s400\/episcopal-church-archives.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: Episcopal Church building\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) has purchased site for their national historical archives in downtown Austin, Texas.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>The Episcopal Church has bought a block in downtown Austin where it plans to build a facility to house its national archives and provide space for meetings, exhibits, research and other purposes. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>The church purchased the block, now a parking lot bounded by Seventh, Eighth, Trinity and Neches streets, from Jimmy Nassour, an Austin real estate attorney. The purchase price was $9.5 million, said Mark Duffy, director of the Archives of the Episcopal Church. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>The entire project is projected to cost over $40 million. <\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">The new church archives building will allow the church to consolidate it&#8217;s historical archives and documents into one location serving the local congregations across the country. There are 2.2 million Episcopalians in the US. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/content\/business\/stories\/realestate\/2009\/06\/09\/0609block87.html\">Read the complete article in the Austin <em>American Statesaman<\/em> 9 June 2009<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) has purchased site for their national historical archives in downtown Austin, Texas. The Episcopal Church has bought a block in downtown Austin where it plans to build a facility to house its national archives and provide space for meetings, exhibits, research and other purposes. &nbsp; The church purchased the block, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1128,1842,667,1878,5289,1000,1129,1674,1829,669,668,1874,26,964,4954,4561,5430,1083,494],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american","tag-austin","tag-austin-american-statesaman","tag-center","tag-church","tag-episcopal-church","tag-family","tag-id","tag-in","tag-jimmy-nassour","tag-mark-duffy","tag-ms","tag-national-archives","tag-north-carolina","tag-price","tag-real-estate","tag-research","tag-texas","tag-us"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100094,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/100094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}