St Luke Heritage Gardens

St Luke Heritage Gardens This page, is dedicated to the restoration of ST Luke African American Methodist Episcopal AME Church in Salisbury, Missouri.

A 1860s church is buried under us, our sister church is in Glasgow Missouri and we sprung the 2nd baptist in Salisbury. Welcome to St Luke Heritage Gardens, we are a property consisted of St Luke AME church and its parsonage, both built in the Victorian era 1890s. St Luke sits ontop of a Union Church and the parsonage is built with the material left from Union Church. A Union church was a mix of r

eligions that worshiped under one roof, it was established on the estate of one of the first settlers name Sergeant Samual Williams which sat in Buffalo Lick Township around 1812. We are all that is left of his estate, better known as the slave quarters. We also spawned the Second Baptist church in Salisbury, and our Sister church was Campbell Chapel in Glasgow as well. Our project and our history take years to restore, but since 2016 we've been slowly building back what was once rotting away. I welcome you to follow along on our journal and to view our eBay store where we sell to fund the slow restoration work.

Fishing spider hunting tad poles...pretty cool!
06/10/2026

Fishing spider hunting tad poles...pretty cool!

Last window in the "vine room" to get its trim, well? last window in the parsonage that needed the trim restored...woo!H...
06/08/2026

Last window in the "vine room" to get its trim, well? last window in the parsonage that needed the trim restored...woo!

Hopefully here soon, I will touch up the paint on the exterior of the windows and get storm windows installed so that they are protected from the elements...

Now I need to move things around, and get to work on the baseboard and interior door casing...

More flower photos for you'all..
06/06/2026

More flower photos for you'all..

Got one window trim installed today. It's about as good as I can get, there are some gaps I don't like and because I had...
06/06/2026

Got one window trim installed today.

It's about as good as I can get, there are some gaps I don't like and because I had to lose the plaster on this wall...the drywall isn't thick enough so I had to put some shims behind the trim to make it flush looking.

Don't really? have a good before of this front window but this is what I called the "vine room"...and you can see it on the right in the before of this room. There is also another before showing it completely gone...the front of the parsonage was completely rebuilt because it was all a rotted and termite ate mess...so this wall is completely new and the whole window restored..

This is the original window from when I bought the property but I don't think it's an original original window...I want to say? that the front window sashes were replaced? added? in the 1920 renovation but? the window sashes were already old as the top sash has shim on the top to make it large enough to fit the opening...will probably never know the story of the window but It's now restored to the way it was when I bought the property and is well over 100yrs old...

Some more lilies.
06/04/2026

Some more lilies.

Today I applied the shellac to the trim. I don't get too perfect on the finish, is like 100 plus year old piece of wood,...
06/04/2026

Today I applied the shellac to the trim.

I don't get too perfect on the finish, is like 100 plus year old piece of wood, it won't ever be perfect so no need getting a perfect finish...long as it protects the wood is all I'm after..

So I apply one coat, then I let that dry...then I sand and apply another one to three coats...now I'll let that dry till tomorrow and I will try to get some reinstalled in the house/parsonage.

A couple of photos of two of the lily clumps....lily's grow crazy around here..
06/03/2026

A couple of photos of two of the lily clumps....lily's grow crazy around here..

Welp, I guess I decided I should work on the house/parsonage some more...I still have a ton of trim work to do, I can't ...
06/03/2026

Welp, I guess I decided I should work on the house/parsonage some more...

I still have a ton of trim work to do, I can't finish putting down new floors in the house until the door casings and baseboards are back in plus I still have two windows missing the trim...

I can't just reinstall the trim/baseboards because it's all a mess with white/brown paint plus I had some termite damaged baseboards and door casing plinth blocks that someone chiseled off corner of to install paneling...so I will also need to recreate some stuff...

It can't be painted because it won't stick....so? the tedious job of refinishing it all needs to be done...

So today I set up the stripping table and the cleaning table..

Stripper is the easiest but messy way of getting most everything off and leaving the patina wood...if I were to sand it all, I would get wood that looked like it just came from the lumber aisle...which looks bad in a century plus old home..

Next once most of the paint if off with stripper...I need to use rags, steel wool and acetone to wash the trim to remove the goo, shellac, soot etc that is left behind...

Tomorrow I'll start to reapply the shellac

So? my stock tank that I used as a pond...froze a few winters ago and cracked...had no idea plastic stock tank would cra...
05/28/2026

So? my stock tank that I used as a pond...froze a few winters ago and cracked...had no idea plastic stock tank would crack...

Last year I used an old playschool toy box...my pump died and this year I was going to dump it...

Well? it was too heavy, so I left it...

Now? I have probably a few hundred tad poles...the back garden will be wild this year with frogs...

Well I wasn't going to do a garden this year...but the other day I noticed chinese long beans coming up in the path from...
05/22/2026

Well I wasn't going to do a garden this year...but the other day I noticed chinese long beans coming up in the path from last year...so? I decided I btter move them into a bed...

Then? today I decided to get more soil to top off the beds...

I also lost a good amount of strawberries last year and a bunch decided to take over the path...so I thought I will move them into one of the beds...hope they take off...kinda sorta the wrong time to move them...but??

I'm past the potato/onion n carrot planting phase but I planted, banana peppers, sweet potatoes, a few tomatoes...figure beefsteak this year, get my fill of summer BLT's lol

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101 S Alice Avenue
Salisbury, MO
65281

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