Wellsville Tabernacle: Interior

It's been a long time since I posted about the Wellsville Tabernacle. Ground was broken on the tabernacle in 1903. The building was sold by the Church to the city in 1979, but in the 1990s, the city felt the upkeep was too much to handle. In 1994, the Wellsville Foundation was formed, and they still actively work to preserve the tabernacle. In the mid-2000s, they found structural problems and they had to close the building. They were recently able to raise $150,000 to secure the structure, which was completed in 2020. It's nice to have a success story.

They are now working on doing plumbing, HVAC, and other updates on the building. This was the first time I was able to document the building's interior. They anticipate that it will be usable again in Spring 2023.

The chapel interior is a square floor plan, with the pulpit being at one corner of the building, and an alcove on one wall. Nearby Clarkston's building has a similar floorplan, which makes me wonder if they copied this one in some ways.

Here's a panoramic view from behind the pulpit:

Looking from the pulpit over the pews:

 

  The building does need some work, but fortunately, it's mostly cosmetic at this point.