{"id":270656,"date":"2025-01-16T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=270656"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:12:06","slug":"always-wanted-to-live-in-a-church-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/01\/16\/always-wanted-to-live-in-a-church-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Always wanted to live in a church in New Orleans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a lapsed Catholic, I no longer believe in the religious part of what happens inside Catholic churches, but I still really admire their architecture, so I am a sucker for a renovated church that has been turned into a single-family home, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/2rs\">this one in New Orleans<\/a> is right up my alley. It&#8217;s only $1.25 million, so definitely affordable \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s got five bedrooms and five bathrooms, and offers about 5,000 square feet of living space on a 5,800-square-foot lot. It was built in 1917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/887016990539bffcb2537f9f8400dd08-cc_ft_768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270657\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/887016990539bffcb2537f9f8400dd08-cc_ft_768.webp 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/887016990539bffcb2537f9f8400dd08-cc_ft_768-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6a3ea12553b34daa58894cdc0fae8b24-cc_ft_768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270658\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6a3ea12553b34daa58894cdc0fae8b24-cc_ft_768.webp 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6a3ea12553b34daa58894cdc0fae8b24-cc_ft_768-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the view from what would have been the upper balcony or possibly the choir loft:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cc12a8dd8a6751eec0d3ba07a002f2f5-cc_ft_768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270659\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cc12a8dd8a6751eec0d3ba07a002f2f5-cc_ft_768.webp 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cc12a8dd8a6751eec0d3ba07a002f2f5-cc_ft_768-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kitchen incorporates the original altar-piece from the church, which was built in the Gothic Revival style and was used by a Methodist congregation for most of its life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c051e2325d06d235da237cf7c97c6833-cc_ft_768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270660\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c051e2325d06d235da237cf7c97c6833-cc_ft_768.webp 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/c051e2325d06d235da237cf7c97c6833-cc_ft_768-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lapsed Catholic, I no longer believe in the religious part of what happens inside Catholic churches, but I still really admire their architecture, so I am a sucker for a renovated church that has been turned into a single-family home, and this one in New Orleans is right up my alley. It&#8217;s only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2025\/01\/16\/always-wanted-to-live-in-a-church-in-new-orleans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always wanted to live in a church in New Orleans?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270675,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270656\/revisions\/270675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}