The iconic former headquarters of Trinity Broadcasting Network, in Costa Mesa, Calif., was demolished after standing vacant for several years.
Construction workers with backhoes knocked down the palatial, 65,6500-square-foot building — with curving golden staircases, marble and mirror surfaces and floor-to-ceiling murals of biblical characters and angels — to make way for 142 new homes.
“My head hurts,” Paul Crouch Jr., the eldest son of the late TBN founders Jan and Paul Crouch Sr., wrote on social media last Friday. “This is not what my parents envisioned, but the last chapter has not been written.”
TBN bought the six-acre property on the 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa for $6 million in 1996, more than 20 years after the elder Paul Crouch had a vision of satellites spreading the gospel.