The answer to a key St. Paul question is coming Sunday

Peggy Woodlief

RANDLEMAN — Our April 19th meeting is going to offer a special program that will give you answers to the question that you have been wondering about during these many months of St. Paul’s paint restoration: How is it possible to discover what has been covered up with that dreadful brownish-beige paint for the last 100 or so years?

The answer to this question will be provided by Andy Compton, who St. Paul is so fortunate to have doing its restoration work. Andy is renowned for his work at Jefferson’s Monticello, Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Capitol in Washington, just to mention a few of his regular customers.

Andy is a conservator and restorer of historic architecture. St. Paul is on the Nation Register of Historic Places as the plaque on the outside wall to the left of the front door states.

We at the museum appreciate your tolerance of all the disorder that the restoration has created and hope by autumn to be able to return to some semblance of order. But when you enter St. Paul even now, you must know that you are looking at a sanctuary that is like no other anywhere because of its unique painting.

Next month’s program will be about who did the extraordinary interior painting of St. Paul in the late 19th century and how that came about.

As always, the time is 2 p.m. and the location is at the corner of Stout and High Point Streets in Randleman.