The conversion of this former Jersey City church into condos left left much of the original Gothic architectural detail intact. See inside one of its airy lofts
Photo: Jacob Snavely Paul Melo had his doubts when he heard about this condo for sale in the deconsecrated St. Boniface Church in Jersey City. “I already go to church. I’m not going to live in one,” Melo remembers thinking. This was 2016, and Melo and his partner, Tom Walko, both designers, had decided to buy a place together — “We each lived in our respective apartments for over ten years.
The conversion split the church’s interior volumes down the middle, and their duplex is in the upper western half. “Our condo floats above the area that was the nave and sits over what would have been part of the altar and choir,” Melo explains. The only quirk is that their dining room, so suitable for dinner parties, is up the spiral staircase from the kitchen. Which means “I am the human dumbwaiter, because I get to bring the food up on a tray when we entertain,” Melo jokes.By the entrance are the religious icons Melo inherited from his late best friend, Greg Lugliani, an activist and one of the original members of act up, the aids organization. “He passed away in 2017,” Melo says, “and he collected those icons over the years.
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