MONICA BUTLER

while the Central West End slept, flame began ripping through the high steeple of the Second Baptist Church on Kingshighway and Washington. Firefighters rushed in and doused it, rescuing that red-brick colossus-erected in 1907-and along with it, the integrity of the Holy Corners historic district. The blaze shook Monica R. Butler’s soul, she says, but she welcomed the publicity it brought to her dream for that