{"id":1055,"date":"2016-05-09T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:52:51","slug":"possibilities-for-restoring-grace-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Possibilities for restoring Grace Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1056\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/101-1200x898.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Church in Lincoln<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeffrey Jackson wants to be able to show his grandson the church where his ancestors worshiped, near the graves where they are buried.<\/p>\n<p>Reginald Simms envisions a museum honoring Loudoun County\u2019s African American veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Lawrence would like to see a display depicting the long-standing ties between white Quakers and the African American community in the western Loudoun village of Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>Area residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-residents-look-at-possibilities-for-restoring-historic-grace-church\/2016\/05\/06\/895f1e9e-139b-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">offered these and other ideas for restoring the abandoned Grace Church building during a four-hour design workshop<\/a> last month at the Goose Creek Friends Meeting House in Lincoln. Architects then sketched drawings showing how the two-story stone structure that housed an African American congregation from the 1880s through the 1940s might be restored and put to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-residents-look-at-possibilities-for-restoring-historic-grace-church\/2016\/05\/06\/895f1e9e-139b-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, May 8, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Jackson wants to be able to show his grandson the church where his ancestors worshiped, near the graves where they are buried. Reginald Simms envisions a museum honoring Loudoun County\u2019s African American veterans. Lee Lawrence would like to see a display depicting the long-standing ties between white Quakers and the African American community in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Possibilities for restoring Grace Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44,48,10,161,3,68,60],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-church","tag-development","tag-history","tag-lincoln","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofit","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}