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.

Monarch Butterfly really lovin this sunflower
08/13/2026

Monarch Butterfly really lovin this sunflower

Big ol pile of trim work, all cleaned and ready for amber shellac. I have to figure out how to do it, as I will need to ...
08/10/2026

Big ol pile of trim work, all cleaned and ready for amber shellac.

I have to figure out how to do it, as I will need to trim up a bunch of it. All the walls have gotten thinner as I removed the plaster and hung dry wall. So casings need to be shaved on the table saw and all the casing trim that is salvaged needs to be trimmed down to fit. So no point in wasting shellac on parts of the trim that will be cut off.

Also shows the original parsonage trim next to the salvaged trim.

I still do not know why there is trim work in the parsonage that is charred/has burnt marks. My only "theory" is that it was salvaged after the original church/masonic lodge burnt in the 1880s and was used in the parsonage in the expansion/remodel in the 1890s. I've found a date in the current church that dates it to 1888.

Plinth blocks, rosettes and a few door casings done today. I can't get every spec of paint off, I'm done...once I amber ...
08/09/2026

Plinth blocks, rosettes and a few door casings done today.

I can't get every spec of paint off, I'm done...once I amber shellac it will hide it a bit. As they say, your only original once...

I love the wood grain! and this is made from trees you will never ever ever see again. Look how tight/close that grain is, you will never see that at a lumber store today.

Well back to refinishing more woodwork tomorrow.

Still stripping trim work, I am finally done with the paint stripper stage...I have three stages I go through, paint str...
08/08/2026

Still stripping trim work, I am finally done with the paint stripper stage...

I have three stages I go through, paint stripping, washing with acetone and finally applying finish/amber shellac..

This pile is for three door casings only..

Look at my Polyphemus moth, hanging out in a rose on the left side of the church..amazing..this is why I have gardens an...
08/07/2026

Look at my Polyphemus moth, hanging out in a rose on the left side of the church..amazing..this is why I have gardens and flowers all over the property

Baby tree frogs! So cute..
08/04/2026

Baby tree frogs! So cute..

I've been sort of neglecting plants, sort of just die already lol but I still water them...this one went nuts in a windo...
08/02/2026

I've been sort of neglecting plants, sort of just die already lol but I still water them...this one went nuts in a window for a few years.

So I put the monstera/swiss cheese plant/split leaf philodendron into a larger pot and gave it a new stick...got 10ft ceilings in here, should be good for a few more years. Will take a bit for it to re face its leaves to where it wants them...so looks kinda depressed lol

Can't put up my laundry room cabinets, till the walls are done...can't put a floor down until the trim is done...So onto...
08/02/2026

Can't put up my laundry room cabinets, till the walls are done...can't put a floor down until the trim is done...

So onto another pile of trim to restore. The plan pieces are the original to the parsonage/house and the fancy trim is salvage from a home around the corner.

You can see one of the call it? a rosette block that I restored, it is the same trim that I used in the bathroom.

Have some great patches of Echinacea aka coneflower this year.
08/01/2026

Have some great patches of Echinacea aka coneflower this year.

The Rudbeckia aka Black Eye'd Susan's patch by the mail box is in full bloom now. These just started off as two small pl...
07/31/2026

The Rudbeckia aka Black Eye'd Susan's patch by the mail box is in full bloom now.

These just started off as two small plants years ago and for YEARS I've been trying to make them spread like the Denver Daisy's but it's been HARD!

I finally got one good size plant that popped up on the left side corner of the church. I've failed all the time I've planted seeds to get them to spread all the way down the left side of the church.

I've also not gotten lucky to get any to sprout in front of the parsonage. Literally this is the only place they want to grow.

I did get one or two plants to grow in the court yard garden, no idea? how they got there but they did.

That is why after the daisy's were picked I got upset, its not so easy to just "plant more seeds"...the flower's seem to have the area's where they want to grow and I can't make them grow anywhere else.

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101 S Alice Avenue
Salisbury, MO
65281

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