Florida real estate executive buys Troy’s historic St. Patrick Church

Londono is out of the nation and unavailable for comment, mentioned Deanna Dal Pos, the NAI System serious estate agent who handled the auction and sale of the church house.

“I’m functioning to introduce her to men and women in Troy. She’s pretty enthusiastic about the metropolis and how stunning Troy is,” Dal Pos said Monday.

Londono is a true estate agent with Morgan Whitney in Miami Seashore and is shown as president of its commercial division on her Linkedin account.

Just what Londono intends to do with the extra than a century-previous constructing is not identified.  Dal Pos explained lots of folks have deemed converting the church to an occasion area or residences.

Londono’s focus was drawn to the church when the 14,416-square-foot making — which has 13 historic bells, soaring twin bell towers and 56-foot-large ceilings — was posted on the net for a around the world auction operated by 10-X. The corporation, which claims it is the “world’s largest, on the internet commercial authentic estate exchange,” held the auction from Dec. 12-15 and started the bidding at $1.

Londono is the fourth owner of the church in the earlier ten years.  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany marketed it to the Episcopal Diocese of Albany for $1 in 2015, which in convert sold it to St. Patrick Troy LLC of 130 Canvass St., Cohoes, a organization controlled by Brian McCandless. That LLC purchased it for $500 in 2020.

The metropolis of Troy pegged the market place worth of the church at $3.7 million when it assessed the assets in 2010, a 10 years after the parish shut. The church, which was water damaged, experienced been stripped of its pews, statues and other furnishings by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. The diocese gives the fixtures to its parishes and then sells what is just not claimed.

The edifice, with its exterior Gothic façade at the entrance from Sixth Avenue, dominates the skyline in the North Central neighborhood. St. Patrick’s parish was established in 1872 to serve a predominantly Irish-American congregation. The parish was between 33 of 190 worship web pages that have been shut as the component of Roman Catholic Diocese’s “Known as to be Church” prepare that consolidated more mature urban parishes in which attendance experienced fallen.