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The parish raised the nearly $10,000 needed to rebuild,  and was back in their building by the end of October that same year. Despite improvements such as adding pads to all of the pews, the parish wanted a new building by the 1860s and it was torn down in 1869 so a new structure could go up on the same site. The entire front page of the Pittsburgh Gazette was about the last service.  Click on the paper to read the article.