Jesus Our Redeemer

Building Renovation Program

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Jesus Our Redeemer

Building Renovation Program

113 Warren Avenue · Federal Hill · Baltimore, MD 21230
62 issues catalogued · 11 prerequisite groups · 8-dimension diagnostic
Estimated program: $850K–$950K main building · $1.2M–$1.5M including parsonages
Program governance framework v1.0 · Established as Lee Street Baptist Church, 1855

How to Use This Site

Six surfaces, each answering a different question about the program.
These six pages are different views of the same underlying data. Every issue, score, group, and ranking flows from one canonical source — so the picture is consistent end-to-end. Start with whatever answers your question; click through to drill down.
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Tour
The 115-photo visual survey of the entire property. See the evidence behind every issue.
Visual · Narrative · Punch-list cross-linked
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Issue Database
Sortable and filterable catalog of all 62 issues with scores, rationale, and confidence flags.
Catalog · Sortable · Searchable
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Priority Dashboard
Program structure visualized — 11 prerequisite groups with dependency arrows and execution queue.
Structure · Dependencies · Sequence
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To-Do List
The bottom-line executable task list. Check items off; blocked items unblock as their prerequisites resolve.
Action · Interactive · Live unblocking
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Quadrant Analysis
Three impact-assessment charts. Reveals what kind of problem each issue is, not just how severe.
Visualization · Pattern · Interpretation
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Priority Report
The interpretive document — what we found, what to do, and why. Read this if you read nothing else.
Summary · Recommendations · Mission alignment

Executive Summary

The shortest possible answer to "what's going on with the building?"

JOR owns three adjacent Federal Hill properties: a 1913 masonry sanctuary with a 1990s addition (113 Warren), and two rowhouse parsonages (111 and 119). A full 115-photo visual survey, cross-checked against the original program punchlist and ongoing team intake, has catalogued 62 distinct renovation issues organized into four physical zones — Structure (roof, walls, support infrastructure), Upstairs (sanctuary), Downstairs (fellowship hall, stair hall, bathrooms), and Rear Addition (kitchen, classrooms, offices) — plus the two adjacent Parsonages.

Six issues sit at the top of the diagnostic scale (score ≥ 19): the two ADA-compliance items (entry/sanctuary stair lifts and the bathrooms), the 1913 slate roof (top of the "roof comes first" spine), the sanctuary reorientation decision, the White Christ figural windows, and the inadequate sanctuary HVAC. Two of those — reorientation and White Christ — also carry the highest missional-integrity weight, making them the program's theological core. The remaining 56 issues either depend on these, sit alongside them, or are operational backdrop.

The physical work has a clear spine: the roof must be sealed first, because the stained glass frames and the sanctuary plaster cannot be restored into an active leak. Once the building shell is sealed, the reorientation cascade and the gospel-integrity windows can be executed with conviction.

Phasing: Phase 0 (now) — make the elder-board decisions, engage assessors, replace the York furnaces. Phase 1 — stabilize the building shell, remediate code items. Phase 2 — execute reorientation; commission new south stained glass. Phase 3 — parsonages and remaining standalones.

The standard against which this program should be measured isn't square footage renovated or dollars spent — it's whether the physical instrument now serves, rather than impedes, the worship and witness of the church. The Priority Report is the full version of this analysis. Everything else on the site is the evidence behind it.

All counts and totals on this page derive from data/issues.json, the canonical source of truth. Every other page is generated from the same file.