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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Detroit, Rev. C. L. Franklin's New Bethel Baptist Church buys the former Oriole Theatre, previously Daddy Grace's church site, for ~$100,000, with $250,000 renovation plans by Architect Nathan Johnson.
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DETROIT (ANP)—Rev. C. L. Franklin, popular pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, has purchased the old Oriole theatre, the former Detroit spiritual home of the late Bishop C. M. (Daddy) Grace's Universal Church of Our Prayer, it was announced last week.
The reported sale price was "somewhere around $100,000."
Plans were immediately announced for a massive renovation job (Continued On Page 4, Col. 7)
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on the building to begin immediately. Architect Nathan Johnson will take charge of the redecorating which will cost an estimated $250,000, according to an informed source.
Sale of the building which was once the property of another colorful man of the cloth, the Rev. James F. (Prophet) Jones and his Church of the Universal Triumph and the Dominion of God, was handled by James Del Rio of Associated Brokers. Atty. Kenneth Hylton represented the Rev. Franklin in the transaction. D.C. law firm of Frank Reeves, represented Bishop Walter McCullough, Daddy Grace's successor.
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Rev. C. L. Franklin's New Bethel Baptist Church purchases the former Oriole Theatre, once the spiritual home of Daddy Grace's Universal Church of Our Prayer and previously owned by Prophet Jones's church, for around $100,000. Plans announced for $250,000 renovation overseen by Architect Nathan Johnson.