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Westport’s Fire-Damaged Saugatuck Church: A Month Later

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Cleanup has begun at Saugatuck Congregational Church following the Nov. 20 fire. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
The Nov. 20 blaze broke out in the rear of the church. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
One of the Saugatuck Nursery School classrooms, located on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A hallway on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
The ceiling inside another nursery school classroom on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
Saugatuck Nursery School classroom on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
The kitchen on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
Hallway outside Hoskins Hall on the first floor. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A recently remodeled classroom on the second floor. The room was converted from a meeting room to a classroom in September. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
Scaffolding has been set up inside the sanctuary. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
The choir room on the top floor sustained the heaviest fire damage. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
An elevator inside the choir room. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A closet inside the choir room, where music and robes were stored. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A section of wall inside the choir room collapsed during the fire. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A large portion of the roof also collapsed during the fire. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A look inside the choir room closet. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A remaining portion of the charred roof. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
A fire-damaged piano inside the choir room. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
Parts of the roof over the closet caved during the fire. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
The church's organ was destroyed in the fire. Photo Credit: Vanessa Inzitari
Read the Article Inside Westport’s Fire-Damaged Saugatuck Church

WESTPORT, Conn. – The extent of damage caused by the Nov. 20 fire at Westport's Saugatuck Congregational Church could be seen from the inside for the first time Thursday afternoon when church officials escorted news media on a tour.

The six-alarm fire broke out in the rear of the 179-year-old church just before 10 p.m. The heaviest fire damage was to the choir room on the top floor, where a portion of the roof collapsed. Betsy Gillespie, a church trustee, said 21,000 sheets of music were lost in the fire, as were five pianos, two organs, including the building organ, and one ...
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