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| Valhalla Third Floor Dining Room |
Because the Valhalla Hall has been torn down, the present view from the front door of Allen A.M.E. Church now is the empty Valhalla site.
In an earlier blog entry I describe the Columbus
Day 1962 Storm at the Valhalla Hall, I
watched glass shatter in a window in a brick building across the street and
stream down, a veil of glitter In another blog entry I referred to the news article that described the move of
Allen A.M.E. Church to K Street. In 1995
the Swedish Order of Valhalla sold the hall to a Seattle Business.
January 2008 Tom Stenger, who has attended First
Lutheran Church, invited me to visit the project of Allen A.M.E. at the Valhalla Hall. They were removing the hall interior, this
included removal of original horse hair insulation from the walls, I saw the
horse hair in loops inside the walls.
Other interested history people also visited the
project, because in the workers had uncovered old murals that were included in
older lodge descriptions.
At that time I attended a presentation, one of
many Allen A.M.E. put forward as they tried to complete funding for a hall
restoration. They fell short of
attaining the necessary funding. Their
plans were shown on the internet and included a performance space like the hall
dance hall with it third floor gallery above.
About three years ago I spoke to Reverend Barrett of the church who
explained that it was true, while they leased to remodel the building they
sought and found funding. But their
search for the project funding fell short of the money necessary.
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| View from Third Floor |
I wanted to include one photo of the murals that I
took that January day in 2008. And I
want to include a photo of the Allen A.M.E.Church from the third floor of the
Valhalla Hall. Their church building
once featured a large cross, which was removed when other large street signs
were taken down from above sidewalks.
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