Church Demolition (Part 1), Bethesda

Part 1: The Luther Hall educational building. Demolition of the Christ Lutheran Church on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, Maryland. It will be replaced by an apartment building.
Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".

[ronaldgaska]

Wow! A demolition of a beautiful church. Brick with nice large windows and slate roof. Rather then tearing it down the developer could of turned the church into apartments. A guess a new structure, taller will cram in more apartments. Nice demolition video.

[constructionwatcher]

Thanks John. It's nice that this section is out in the open where you can get access to film.

Looking forward to more on this project.

[gravydog]

The work is so slow! It's like they are afraid they will hurt the building or something.

[k.c.beagle]

Thanks John for sharing these great videos. Always enjoying and entertaining. Seems them folks at Berg Demolition Construction never bore a person.

[rickwright]

wow john a great video to watch i came a cross your video and now i am watching it for the first time

[janeblake]

Amazingly quick! Remember years ago how long it took to demolish homes to make room for the TTC North/South line!

[brucemartini]

22:06- machine like- "i lost my stick, can you help me find it"?🤣

[marvinjgerald]

I’m sorry but the fellow operating the excavator with claw on the left seems to not want to just use the claw auger exactly for what it’s designed for. It’s not a wrecking ball, just freaking claw the structure down, because even gravity is on your side, you know?

[PeterMackett]

This is fantastic!, i love watching brick buildings being demolished and they certainly ripped through that end quick!, hard to use the spear sideways as the idea is to push through the walls then pull it out with the hook, looking forward to seeing more of this building coming down.

[johnmaguire]

What’s the point of the m/c with the metal bar? It doesn’t appear to be adding any value to the job! Better to have a clam-shell attachment which can bite into the brickwork

[jonathandye]

Lighthouses are more useful than churches- Ben Franklin

[rangercwgbear]

Dang took two naps watching this so slow

[woofusdad]

Love this, old fashioned demolition, more please.

[pauljames]

Makes me sad. Can't watch beautiful buildings get wrecked.

[mackhopper]

Why not convert this existing structure to apartments (which is often done) rather than build some new crappy looking, “cheaply constructed” apartments? Just stupid.

[grumpyg]

Painful to watch. Appears both operators were new, perhaps.

[Leatherface.]

They need to make demolition proof buildings. What a waste of incredible architecture

[matmabira]

I would like to be in the place of the operators, this must be fun !

[paulthesoundguy]

Maybe I am an idiot……..but if I had that big metal Rod connected to an excavator…I would have had that building on the ground ……NOW😁😁😁

[Leatherface.]

Tearing down history to replace it with garbage