Small-town salvage Architectural Antiques is based in Minneapolis. The Denver store, which opened five years ago, has yet to salvage a local church. They tend to be in isolated areas and smaller towns. It has much to do with rural demographics. Many areas in the Midwest are losing population.
Young people move away.
Older folks pass away. Neither group gets replaced. Congregations dwindle, and churches, their ranks thinned, disperse or consolidate. Not all ecclesiastical salvage goes into private homes. We had a huge altar that we sold to a church in Canada.