Tom and Gayle Benson's 112-year-old home on Audubon Place has many historic architectural details -- from gracefully sloping ceilings to massive marble mantels and monumental ceiling medallions. But ...
ROCHESTER — Stephanie Podulke has been making stained glass windows for a long time. After starting the business with her late husband, Mike, the couple moved to Rochester in 1976. Ever since, the ...
Mesopotamian potters discovered the method for making multi-colored opaque glass beads around 2750 BC. Circa 1100 AD, a window of colored glass was documented in Germany. Colored glass windows were ...
Tim Flakoll has been in the public eye for years in state government, higher education and F-M Redhawks baseball. Now he has his eye on making and giving away beautiful stained glass works of art. A ...
Stained glass windows were a hallmark of upward-mobility sensibilities, an aspirational gesture for people enjoying the fruits of boomtown St. Paul. For seven years I lived in an old house built by a ...
When Ken Matthias is not soldering he's biking Alameda looking for stained glass. He'll never forget his first trip down Liberty Street. "When I got done," he says, "my neck was sore from turning from ...
SALEM TWP. — A small, brick church has stood on the corner of Six Mile Road and McFadden Street since 1888, most likely not drawing much attention from passersby. But step inside the Salem Bible ...
Ordinary windows can tell us a lot about the world. They can answer questions: What's the weather like? Who's passing by? If we add color and combine glass shapes together, however, we can end up with ...
Do you believe in magic? Artists typically draw inspiration from the stuff their dreams are made of. Wood, stone, paper, cloth – the material’s character informs the artist’s creation. Typically.
Eleven window openings at the 109-year-old Central Presbyterian Church in Tarentum will remain boarded shut for at least six months during a painstaking project to restore the colorful stained glass.