Unlocking the Archive: When Maywood Mission embarked on an addition in 2004

This week's archive photo comes from April 2004 and shows the demolition of the back portion of the Maywood Mission building on South Broad Street in preparation for a bigger project.

The project was a $70,000 multi-purpose room addition to the existing building.

At the time, Tony Salvatori, director of Maywood Mission, said the project was something they had been trying to start for more than two years.

Salvatori said the multi-purpose room would serve a triple function.

"We will have a nice facility for our summer program. It will be used for our latchkey program, so we can separate the school-aged kids from the preschoolers. It also will be used as a fellowship hall for Maywood chapel," Salvatori said in an April 12, 2004 article in the Eagle-Gazette. "Because it will be connected to the back part of the building, the kitchen will be accessible from the hall. So we hope to be able to rent the hall out to the community for banquets, wedding receptions or reunions. It will be able to hold enough tables to seat over 100 people comfortably. The area is fenced in with a shelter house and a playground so we will have something nice to offer."