Figure 1: Unknown maker. Stained glass panel - Lion, 17th century. Cranbrook Art Museum acc# CAM 1927.98.
Photograph by William Gorski. Courtesy of Cranbrook Art Museum.
Figure 1: Unknown maker. Stained glass panel - Lion, 17th century.
Cranbrook Art Museum acc# CAM 1927.98.
Photograph by William Gorski. Courtesy of Cranbrook Art Museum.
According to the American Association of Museums, there are over 70 types of museums listed in their Official Museum Directory. There have been only two known attempts to count all the museums in the United States, with a most recent estimated figure of 17,500 museums1. Museums can be classified in various ways, such as by the material that they collect, the audiences they serve, and the manner in which they exhibit their collections2. In our attempts over the years to learn of stained glass holdings in the collections of Michigan museums, we found that the museums that tend to have stained glass in their collections or in their buildings fall into several sometimes overlapping categories: 1) Art museums; 2) College and university collections (including museums or historic buildings with stained glass under the care of colleges or universities); 3) Historic sites, usually former residences, now open to the public; 4) History museums and historical societies; and 5) Specialty and other museums3. Another category could include historic structures with stained glass such as churches or homes that have been rescued and repurposed by entities such as museums, universities or cultural centers. The stained glass collections in Michigan's museums and historic sites are varied in scope. While the state's larger art museums are well known for their collections of 13th-17th century European stained glass, our local history museums and academic institutions are full of surprises as well, including windows rescued from razed local churches and homes, works by Michigan artists, and even a few Tiffany windows. A number of local history museums and historical societies have taken up residence in former churches and other historic structures as well.
It is important that before making a trip, visitors consider contacting museums in advance to determine hours and possible admission fees, as well as to see if any stained glass is on exhibit at the time. While historic sites like the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids obviously always maintain their windows in situ and the Detroit Institute of Arts is known for its long-term installations of stained glass, museums do not necessarily always have specific collections on display. Some museums may make arrangements to show collections to researchers by appointment, although policies will vary due to limitations in staff and for the protection of collections.
Cranbrook's 20th century holdings include a number of prominent figures in the American and English Arts & Crafts movement: Two windows by Charles Connick, completed ca. 1924-25 depicting the subjects of "Fortitude of Job" and Saints Genevieve and Ursula of Cologne are replicas of windows Connick produced in 1921-22 for Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, MA and the Bishop's Private Chapel in the Episcopal Cathedral of Washington, DC8; a cinquefoil window by Irishman Michael Healy of "St. Patrick Lighting the Pascal Fire on the Hill of Slaine" was purchased by Connick in Dublin9; an unusual 1921-23 grouping of windows by German artist Wilhelm Rupprecht entitled "Scenes from the Book of Genesis: God divides the light from the darkness..."; and a large Christopher Columbus window made in 1927 by the G. Owen Bonawit Studios of New York. Cranbrook also recently acquired a dozen Frank Lloyd Wright windows, about which we hope to have more to report in the near future.
Figure 2: John La Farge. Memorial Windows from the First Unitarian
Church, Detroit, 1890
(Left to Right: Remick, Merrill, and Bagley Memorial Windows)
Gift of the Unitarian Church Trust
Photograph © 2001 The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is probably best known for their extensive collection of over 60 examples of Medieval and Renaissance stained glass. Raguin describes this collection in no uncertain terms, as one of the finest stained glass collections in the country: "There is no more significant collection of stained glass in the United States outside of the east coast holdings at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Pitcairn Collection, Glencairn, Pennsylvania."10 The collection represents the 13th to 16th centuries from around Europe, with especially strong holdings in German glass from the 15th to 16th centuries11. A highlight to any visitor would be the 16th century chapel from the Château of Lannoy, Herbéviller, in Lorraine, France, which the museum acquired over the course of several years in the 1920s and opened in 192712. The chapel contains a grouping of late 15th century German windows depicting "Prophets and Psalmists After the 'Biblia Pauperum'" which was installed in a setting of grisaille strapwork created by the Willet Studios in 194713. The collection was acquired through various donations and art dealers both in the United States and abroad, occasionally funded through the museum's Founders Society. A number of the pieces were acquired from members of the Booth family, including George G. Booth, who had purchased a number of windows on a trip to Europe in 192214. Raguin notes that 20 works of stained glass at the DIA came from the large collection of publisher William Randolph Hearst, which was put on sale out of financial necessity in the 1940s. While the Hearst sale was not successful at the time, the DIA acquired the windows at a much later date, in 195815.
Given the strength of the DIA's holdings in stained glass, it is notable that when asked to name a representative example from the museum's collections, Curator James Tottis suggested not one of the museum's 67 European pieces, but a striking grouping of windows by John La Farge (fig. 2), noting that "they say stained glass in the biggest way at the DIA." This says much for the work of La Farge, which are significant as objets d'art as well as for their ties to local Detroit history. Removed from Detroit's First Unitarian Church when Woodward Avenue was widened in 1936, they are the only known La Farge windows in Michigan and among the best examples of opalescent-era glass that can be found anywhere in the state. The DIA also has windows and light fixtures by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as a 1969 museum-commissioned window by artist Paul Bony, based on a cutout in the collections by Henri Matisse16.
Figure 3: Mathias Alten (American, 1871-1938). The Grape Arbor Window, 1906. Stained and leaded glass. 71 x 117 in. Anonymous gift in memory of Frank Vander Mark, 1992.9.1. Image courtesy of Grand Rapids Art Museum. German-born painter Mathias Alten lived and worked for years in the city of Grand Rapids, and his work was well known in Midwest17. MSGC 06.0019. |
Figure 4: Abraham Rattner. Window, 1956-58. Flint Institute of Arts. Photograph by Barbara Krueger by Permission of Flint Institute of Arts. |
Other art museums in Michigan with stained glass in their collections include: The Grand Rapids Museum of Art, which has a stained glass window by painter Mathias Alten (fig. 3); the Flint Institute of Arts, which has a piece by artist Abraham Rattner (fig. 4) and the Muskegon Museum of Art, which has a window by an unknown maker of Christ carrying the cross. Beyond stained glass, the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts have installations by well-known hot glass artist Dale Chihuly.
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| Figure 4: Allegory for Education. Tom Woodruff in collaboration with Tom Blackburn and Pristine Glass of Grand Rapids, MI, 2000. Grand Valley State University, Richard M. Devos Center, Robert C. Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, MI. MSGC. 06.0005. Image courtesy of Grand Valley State Art Gallery. |
The college and university collections with stained glass holdings in Michigan vary, ranging from the traditional collections of places like Michigan State University (East Lansing) and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) to historic buildings with stained glass that have come into the possession of universities, such as Meadow Brook Hall (Oakland University, Rochester) and the Beecher Mansion (Wayne State University, Detroit). Each institution defines its "collections" differently as well, sometimes formally or informally including windows that are found in campus buildings. For instance, Michigan State University considers the windows of its Alumni Memorial Chapel to be part of its public art collections, although the structure is not under the auspice of either of the university's two collecting museums. Likewise, when the Michigan Stained Glass Census contacted Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids to inquire about their potential collections, we were informed about the windows in the library at the Richard M. DeVos Center (fig. 4). Although there are other college and university facilities in the state that may have stained glass windows, the ones documented in this article have been specifically identified as part of a college/university museum/collection, or as historic sites in their own right.
The museums of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (U of M) both have collections of interest in particular to scholars and admirers of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The University of Michigan Museum of Art can easily be described as a significant repository in the state of Tiffany-related decorative arts. While the collection includes three stained glass windows from the Henry O. Havemeyer House in New York (1890-91), they also have a number of other architectural items from the Havemeyer House including doors, a gilt metal/opalescent glass firescreen, and mosaic pieces. The U of M Museum of Art collection also has a number of Tiffany art glass objects such as vases and bowls18. In addition to its Tiffany holdings, The U of M Museum of Art has a portion of a 13th century rose window from Reims Cathedral of Notre Dame, France19 and a window by Frank Lloyd Wright. Like items in the DIA collection, the Wright window at U of M originated from the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY (1904). The University of Michigan's other museum with stained glass, the Kelsey Museum of Ancient Archeology, has long been home to a Tiffany window. Once home to the campus Student Christian Association (YMCA), Newberry Hall became home to the university's archeological collections in 1945 but retained its 1889 "Fox Memorial Window" by the Tiffany Studios20.
The Michigan State University Museum, in addition to being home of the Michigan Stained Glass Census, also has a growing collection of stained glass related objects and ephemera. While we have around two dozen stained glass windows and light fixtures dating from the late 19th century to the 1990s, the collection's strength lies in sizeable donations of cartoons, maquettes and other ephemera from Michigan artists and studios, including the Detroit Stained Glass Works, John VanderBurgh, Helene Rother and Vera Sattler. A recent donation of over 200 items related to the business of the Detroit Stained Glass Works includes windows, business correspondence, ledgers, artwork and other materials.
Figure 5: Maker unknown. Stained glass hanging lamp, ca. 1900. This opalescent era light fixture and its eight matching sconces, currently hanging in the MSU Museum Store, are the only stained glass items on long-term display at the Museum. The lights, which were received through MSU School of Music, at one time hung in the music room of the Morley family of Saginaw, MI. MSUM acc# 2471. Photo by Pearl Yee Wong. |
Figure 6: Maker unknown. One of four stained glass windows each with the image of an armored Knight of the Crusades. Said to be from a private chapel in Barton Manor, Staffordshire, England. MSUM acc# 2009.103.2. Gift of Donna Boudemann. Photo by Val Berryman. |
Figure 7: Detroit Stained Glass Works. Cartoon, ca. 1927. MSUM acc# 7567.60. Gift of Marcia Carbone. The window associated with this cartoon of a mask was recently discovered at the Scripps Mansion in Lake Orion, MI. It is part of a large collection of cartoons, maquettes, business papers and other materials from the Detroit Stained Glass Works. |
Figure 8: Leaded casement windows in a child's bedroom bring the balcony view inside at Frank Lloyd Wright's Meyer May House in Grand Rapids. MSGC 95.0051. Photo by Pearl Yee Wong. |
Figure 9: Ornamental window from the Whaley Historical House Museum in Flint. The 1850s structure was owned by several prominent Flint families before local lumberman and banker Robert J. Whaley purchased and remodeled it21. MSGC 96.0014. Photo by Charles Lowell. |
While privately owned historic homes are for the most part inaccessible to the general public, we are fortunate to have a number of historic house sites all around Michigan, some which have interesting examples of stained and leaded glass. The most famous historic homes in the state would probably be Frank Lloyd Wright's 1908 Meyer May House (fig. 8) of Grand Rapids and the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House of Grosse Pointe Shores— Edsel Ford being the son of auto pioneer Henry Ford—built by Albert Kahn in 192622. While the Prairie School-period May House is full of leaded windows and other Wright-designed interior elements (restored in the 1980s), the Ford House is notable to stained glass aficionados for its early English windows. The house has 16 heraldic panels, dating from the 14th-16th centuries, and a 13th century ornamental boss. The majority of the panels are leaded into windows in the stairwell landing, while the others are set into windows in a Gallery23. The Ford House is the only historic house site in Michigan where one can see Medieval stained glass. Raguin describes the Ford House as part of a trend among affluent American families in the early 20th century who sought a connection to the historic past by creating an English estate environment in their homes: "One need not necessarily characterize these... families... as wealthy Anglophiles surrounding themselves with heraldic emblems in the spirit of a new American aristocracy; rather their display of stained glass created an aura of continuity with an older time."24
Figures 10-11: W. H. Wells & Co. and McCully & Miles, Chicago. Windows from the homes of Thomas Hume (left) and Charles H. Hackley (right), Muskegon, MI. 1888. MSGC 95.0061 & 95.0060. |
Photos courtesy of Messrs. Gager, McGlynn, Scarbrough, Willson
and McCormick, |
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| Figures 12-13: When the William H. Withington Home of Jackson was torn down in 1925 to make room for the local high school, its windows went into a private collection. The Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History received them in 1971. Tiffany Studios, New York. "SALVE" (hail) and "VALE" (farewell). Date unknown. Ella Sharp acc# 71.181. Images courtesy of Ella Sharp Museum of Art And History. MSGC 95.0056. |
Historical societies and museums are likewise important as collectors of stained glass for two reasons. First, many small museums and historical societies house themselves in former churches and historic homes that have period stained glass in situ. In many cases it is these museums that save these structures from meeting a fate of disrepair and destruction that is far too familiar. Additionally, local historical societies and museums are on the front lines of historical preservation in their own communities, and often become the repositories for stained glass when local historic structures are lost. While larger museums in other cities may have no interest in every window that comes out of a Michigan home or church, these windows become the showpieces of their local museums and historical societies, and maintain their histories for future generations.
The Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History in Jackson possesses two of the state's lovelier Tiffany windows (figs. 12-13). The windows are a rare example as well, having originated from a Michigan residential setting. Removed from the General William H. Withington Home of Jackson (built 1882, demolished 1927), they depict two female figures and the Latin greetings of "SALVE" (hail) and "VALE" (farewell). The windows were installed on both sides of the door to the Withington Home26.
The Detroit Historical Museum rescued windows by the D. H. Oidtmann Studios (fig. 14), as well as other architectural elements, from Immaculate Conception Church and St. John's Convent in Hamtramck, MI when the buildings were demolished in 1981. The loss of Immaculate Conception was part of the controversial destruction of the Poletown neighborhood, in which General Motors collaborated with the cities of Detroit and Hamtramck to build a new plant, displacing 4,200 residents and 140 businesses, as well as eliminating six churches27. Some of the windows reflect the parish's ethnic membership, such as a window of St. Hedwig, patron saint of Poland, and other windows with Polish inscriptions. These windows, along with other items in the Detroit Historical Museum's architectural collections, can be viewed on the museum's website. This type of resource is making the stained glass in Michigan's museums more widely accessible to the public. Other museums, including the Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Michigan Museum of Art have some of their stained glass collections viewable on the web, and an expanded stained glass collections website is under development at the Michigan State University Museum as well.
Figure 14: D. H. Oidtmann Studios, Linnich, Germany. St. Mary window, ca. 1920. Eighteen stained glass windows made between 1919 and 1927 for Immaculate Conception Church in Hamtramck, MI were preserved in the Detroit Historical Museum's collections along with other architectural elements after the church was razed in 1981. Image courtesy of the Detroit Historical Museum. MSGC 06.0006. |
Figure 15: The Muskegon County Museum has this window of Christ and American servicemen by an unknown maker, probably a World War I memorial, which was transplanted from a building in Italy. Muskegon County Museum acc# 99.080.1. Photo courtesy of Muskegon County Museum. MSGC 06.0022. |
There are a number of history museums all around Michigan from the large to small that may have one window, or two dozen windows, some as part of their original structure and others acquired from local donors. Many of the museums we have documented in Michigan reside in former churches, or maintain a church as part of an historic site complex. Just a few of Michigan's history museums with stained glass in their collections include: the Muskegon County Museum, which oversees the Hackley & Hume Historic Site, as well has having several church windows in its collections; the Old Depot Park Museum of Ironwood, which has several windows from razed local churches; and the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, which has an ornamental window grouping from the former Horace Peck Residence (the museum's former home).
Figure 16: G. Owen Bonawit Studios, New York. Knight window, 1929. Meadow Brook Hall, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. Photo courtesy of Meadowbrook Hall Program Guild. MSGC 96.0067. |
Figure 17: Maker unknown. Stained glass dome, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kalamazoo, MI (1913, William C. Jones, Chicago, architect). Photo by Lawrence B. Schlack. MSGC 97.0049. |
As we have seen, museums, universities, and other cultural institutions often assume stewardship of former churches, historic homes, and other structures, allowing us access we might not otherwise have. About one third of the museums we know of in Michigan that possess stained glass are museums residing in historic structures, or such buildings have come into the possession of museums or universities for uses other than they were originally intended. Meadow Brook Hall of Rochester, once home to automobile pioneer John Dodge's widow Mathilda Dodge Wilson and her husband Alfred G. Wilson, began its second life after Mrs. Wilson donated it to Michigan State University in 1957 with a gift of 2 million dollars for the formation of a new university. Now part of Oakland University, the 1920s Neo-Tudor structure is used as a university conference and cultural center28. We have learned in recent months that the recently disbanded Ladies Literary Club of Grand Rapids donated its historic 1887 building (with its striking Shakespeare Tiffany window) to Calvin College29. Likewise the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts recently purchased the distinctive 1913 domed First Church of Christ, Scientist, and will announce its plans for the structure in the near future30.
The museums, university collections and historic sites listed here represent our knowledge to date of stained glass in Michigan collections that we know of at this time. While much of the information was provided by our volunteer census takers or through our own research, we are also thankful to the staff of the various museums who provided us information on their collections both through direct registration of their buildings and as a result of a Michigan Museums Documentation Project we conducted in 2006. We also would like to express thanks to the museums for the use of images of the windows in their collections. If you know of additional Michigan museums or historic sites with stained glass collections that are not included here, please contact us.
| File | Type | Status | County | City | Address | Location | Telephone | Holdings | Comments | Links |
| 92.0003 | university | complete | Ingham | East Lansing | MSU Campus | MSU Alumni Memorial Chapel | 906-863-9000 | windows by Willet Studios | http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/may05.html | |
| 92.0026 | history | complete | Menominee | Menominee | 904 11th Avenue | Menominee County Historical Museum | 906-863-9000 | 21 windows, attributed to Cornerstone, Martha Lamack (1921) | Housed in former St. John the Baptist Catholic Church | http://menomineehistoricalsociety.org/ |
| 92.0059 | history | incomplete | Menominee | Hermansville | N5551 River St. | IXL Historical Museum | Ornamental window, unknown maker. Not currently on display. | Housed in George Earle Home | http://www.hermansville.com/IXLMuseum/Default.htm | |
| 92.0070 | history | complete | Genesee | Grand Blanc | 203 E. Grand Blanc Road | Grand Blanc Heritage Museum | 810-694-7274 | 10 ornamental windows, unknown maker | Housed in 1885 Congr. Church | http://www.cityofgrandblanc.com/community_museum.html |
| 93.0010 | art | complete | Muskegon | Muskegon | 296 West Webster | Muskegon Museum of Art | 231-720-2570 | 1 window by unknown maker | http://www.muskegonartmuseum.org/ | |
| 93.0053; 93.0055 | art | complete | Berrien | St. Joseph | 707 Lake Boulevard | Krasl Art Center | 269-983-0271 | 1 window by Walter W. Pymn, Colonial Glass Works, Benton Harbor, MI (1980); ornamental window removed from Ludlow Home (ca. 1870) | Museum also has 2000 art glass installation by Dale Chihuly. | http://www.krasl.org/ |
| 93.0089 | history | complete | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 230 N. Rose St. | Kalamazoo Valley Museum | 269-373-7990 | 1 window, home of Horace Peck | http://kvm.kvcc.edu/; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/sep05.html | |
| 93.0094 | history | incomplete | Gogebic | Ironwood | 150 North Lowell | Old Depot Park Museum | 906-932-1122 | 3 windows from razed local buildings: window from St. Ambrose Catholic School Chapel, demolished in 1971; 2 windows from Holy Trinity Catholic Church | http://www.ironwoodmi.org/historical.htm | |
| 93.0110 | historic house site | incomplete | Berrien | Benton Harbor | 501 Territorial | Morton House Museum | 269-556-0328 | 7 ornamental windows, ca. 1891 | http://www.parrett.net/~morton/ | |
| 93.0115 | college/university/historic site | complete | Kent | Grand Rapids | 61 Sheldon Blvd. SE | Ladies Literary Club | 1915 window by Tiffany Studios | Recently donated to Calvin College | http://http://www.calvin.edu/ | |
| 94.0027 | historic house site | complete | Kent | Grand Rapids | 115 College Ave. S.E. | Voigt House Victorian Museum | 616-456-4600 | ornamental windows, unknown maker | William G. Robinson, architect (1895) | http://www.michigan.org/travel/detail.asp?m=&p=G4906 |
| 94.0034 | history | complete | Kent | Grand Rapids | 54 Jefferson SE | Public Museum of Grand Rapids | 616-456-3977 | ornamental window originally from Grace Episcopal Church (1877-92) | http://www.grmuseum.org/ | |
| 94.0038 | college/university/historic site | incomplete | Wayne | Detroit | 5475 Woodward Ave. | The Beecher Mansion | Window by The Tiffany Studios | Now home of Wayne State University Office of Development | http://detroit1701.org/Beecher%20Home.html; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/jun02.html | |
| 94.0039 | art | incomplete | Wayne | Detroit | 5200 Woodward Ave. | Detroit Institute of Arts | 313-833-7900 | One of the largest collections of Medieval stained glass in the country (67 pieces documented in Raguin); win dow grouping by John La Farge (orig. located at First Unitarian Church of Detroit, ca. 1890); several pieces by Frank Lloyd Wright; window fabricated by artist Paul Bony, based on paper cutout by Henri Matisse | http://www.dia.org; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/may02.html; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/jul07.html | |
| 94.0065 | history/historic site | complete | Eaton | Charlotte | 110 W. Lawrence Ave. | Courthouse Square Association/Historic 1885 Eaton County Courthouse | 517-543-6999 | 2 windows, maker unknown | Includes window reported to be from 1893 World's Fair | http://www.visitcourthousesquare.org/ |
| 94.0078 | historic house site | incomplete | Calhoun | Marshall | 107 North Kalamazoo Ave. | The Honolulu House | 2 ornamental windows, unknown maker | http://www.marshallmich.com/history/HonoluluHouse.shtml | ||
| 94.0083 | specialty | complete | Calhoun | Albion | 13725 26 Mile Rd/Starr Commonwealth | Brueckner Museum | 517-629-5591 | 5 windows W.H. Burnham (1956), subjects of history, music, art and literature | Museum is a facility of Starr Commonwealth, which is an organization that assists troubled youth and families. | http://www.starr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Tours; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/sep99.html; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/nov98.html |
| 94.0145 | historic house site | incomplete | Wayne | Grosse Pointe Shores | 1100 Lake Shore Road | Edsel & Eleanor Ford House | 313-884-4222 | 18 windows, England, 13th to mid-16th century | Albert Kahn, architect, 1926-29 | http://www.fordhouse.org |
| 94.0172 | specialty | incomplete | Marquette | Ishpeming | 610 Palms Ave. | U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum | 906-485-6323 | 1 window by Demara & Makowski Artists, Dearborn, MI | http://skihall.com/ | |
| 95.0051 | historic house site | in process | Kent | Grand Rapids | 450 Madison SE | Meyer May House | 616-246-4821 | Windows by Frank Lloyd Wright | http://www.steelcase.com/na/meyer_may_house_ourcompany.aspx?f=18708; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/jul07.html | |
| 95.0052 | historic house site | incomplete | Oakland | Pontiac | 405 Oakland Avenue | Pine Grove Historical Museum (Governor Moses and Angela Hascall Wisner House) | 248-338-6732 | transom window, state seal, maker unknown | http://www.ocphs.org/museum.html | |
| 95.0056 | history and art | complete | Jackson | Jackson | 3225 Fourth St. | Ella Sharp Museum of Art and History | 517-787-2320 | 2 Tiffany windows, from the Gen. William Withington Home | Housed in the 19th century home of Ella Merriman Sharp | http://www.ellasharp.org/ |
| 95.0061 | historic house site | complete | Muskegon | Muskegon | 6th & Webster | Hackley & Hume Historic Site | 231-722-0278 | Over 50 ornamental windows in 3 buildings on site, by W. H. Wells & Co. and McCully & Miles, Chicago. | see also Muskegon County Museum | http://www.muskegonmuseum.org/hh_site.asp |
| 96.0014 | historic house site | incomplete | Genessee | Flint | 624 E. Kearsley | Whaley Historical House Museum | 810-235-6841 | Forms missing; photos show several Victorian-era ornamental windows | http://www.whaleyhouse.com/ | |
| 96.0017 | specialty | incomplete | Wayne | Detroit | 100 Strand Drive | Dossin Great Lakes Museum | La Salle window from ship City of Detroit III's Gothic Room. Frederick Keil, Edward F. Lee Glass Co., Detroit (Tutag, 129). | see also Detroit Historical Museum | http://www.detroithistorical.org/aboutus/dossin.asp; http://www2.oakland.edu/oakland/OUportal/index.asp?site=87; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/mar99.html | |
| 96.0116 | art | incomplete | Genesee | Flint | 1120 E. Kearsley St. | Flint Institute of Arts | 810-234-1695 | 1957 window by Abraham Rattner | http://www.flintarts.org/; http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/aug04.html | |
| 97.0049 | church/historic site | complete | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 414 W. South St. | First Church of Christ, Scientist | 36 non-pictorial windows, unknown maker, ca. 1913 | Church purchased by Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; future used to be announced. Note: KIA also has 1998 art glass installation by Dale Chihuly. | http://www.kiarts.org/ | |
| 98.0036 | historic house site | complete | Oakland | Holly | 306 S. Saginaw | Hadley House Museum | 248-634-9233 | 3 windows, World of Glass, Rochester, MI, date unknown | 1875 historic house site | |
| 98.0058 | university/natural history | incomplete | Washtenaw | Ann Arbor | 434 S. State St. | Kelsey Museum of Ancient Archeology | 734-764-9304 | Window by The Tiffany Studios, 1903 | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/; http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/research/Publications/spring2002/tiffany.html | |
| 98.0128 | historical society/historic site | complete | Iron | Caspian | Museum Drive | Iron County Museum/St. Mary's Catholic Church | 906-265-2617 | 12 windows unknown maker | Former Catholic church which houses an art gallery. Part of local complex of historic sites. | http://www.ironcountymuseum.com/index.html |
| 00.0001 | art center | incomplete | Emmet | Petoskey | 461 E. Mitchell | Crooked Tree Arts Council/Virginia McCune Arts Center | 231-347-4337 | 26 windows, unknown maker | Housed in former methodist church | http://www.crookedtree.org/ |
| 00.0039 | history | complete | Benzie | Benzonia | 6941 River Rd. | Benzie Area Historical Museum | 231-882-5539 | 1 window by unknown maker, 1945 | housed in former Congr. church | http://www.bahmuseum.org/ |
| 01.0004 | history | incomplete | Houghton | Calumet | Corner of Scott & Fifth Streets | Keweenaw Heritage Center | 1909 windows by unknown maker, 1 Willet window | housed in former St. Anne Catholic Church | http://www.pasty.com/heritage/ | |
| 01.0022 | history | complete | Huron | Huron City (Port Austin) | 7985 Pioneer Rd. | Huron City Museum | 25 pictorial windows, mostly ca. 1900 by unknown maker plus 2 rose windows by Scheffner of Huron City (1985) | Housed in Hubbard/Phelps Memorial Chapel (former ME church) | ||
| 05.0004 | historic site | complete | Genesee | Flint | 6140 Bray Rd. | Coldwater Chapel at Crossroads Village | 11 windows ca. 1890, maker unknown | Historic village with chapel on site | http://www.geneseecountyparks.org/crossroadsvillage.htm | |
| 05.0006 | university/cultural history | complete | Ingham | East Lansing | MSU Campus | Michigan State University Museum | Home to records of Michigan Stained Glass Census. Windows, tools, artwork, business records and other ephemera from the Detroit Stained Glass Works; maquettes by Michigan artists John VanderBurgh, Vera Sattler, Margaret Cavanaugh and Helene Rother. Several other misc. windows and light fixtures, 19th-20th c. | Stained glass collections not regularly on display in museum. Collections website under construction. | http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/collections.html, http://http://museum.msu.edu/museum/msgc/feb07.html | |
| 05.0009 | specialty/cultural history | complete | Wayne | Detroit | 315 E. Warren Ave. | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | 313-494-5800 | 12 windows by Samuel Hodges, Spartanburg, SC | http://www.maah-detroit.org/ | |
| 06.0004 | history | complete | Saginaw | Chesaning | 602 W. Broad St. | Chesaning Area Historical Society | 989-845-3155 | 10 windows by unknown maker, ca. 1900 | Housed in former St. John's Episc. Church | http://cahs.vze.com/ |
| 06.0005 | college/university | complete | Kent | Grand Rapids | 401 W. Fulton St. | Richard M. DeVos Center, Grand Valley State University | Pew Campus window by Tom Woodruff with Tom Blackburn and Pristine Glass | http://www.gvsu.edu/ | ||
| 06.0006 | history | complete | Wayne | Detroit | 5401 Woodward Avenue | Detroit Historical Museum | Oidtmann windows from Hamtramck church | Also stained glass cartoons in library, probably from a local studio | http://www.detroithistorical.org/ | |
| 06.0008 | history | complete | Marquette | Marquette | 213 North Front St. | Marquette County History Museum | 906-226-3571 | 16 windows in the museum collection and 6 windows installed in the museum building, provenance not specified. | http://www.marquettecohistory.org/ | |
| 06.0012 | college/university | complete | Cass | Dowagiac | 58900 Cherry Grove Road | The Museum at Southwestern Michigan College | 269-782-1000 | Two stained glass windows made ca. 1892 by an unidentified studio for Dowagiac's Beckwith Memorial Theatre Building, torn down in 1967. | http://www.swmich.edu/museum/ | |
| 06.0013 | history | incomplete | Arenac | Au Gres | 304 E. Michigan | Arenac County Historical Museum | 989-876-7029 | windows by unknown maker | Housed in former Methodist church | http://www.rootsweb.com/~miachs/index.htm |
| 06.0014 | history | complete | Wayne | Plymouth | 155 South Main Street | Plymouth Historical Museum | 734-455-8940 | 3 windows, originally from the Wilcox residence, Baptist Church, and PA Theater in Plymouth. | http://www.plymouthhistory.org/ | |
| 06.0015 | history/historic house site | complete | Clinton | St. Johns | 106 Maple St. | Paine-Gillam-Scott House, Clinton Historical Museum | 517-224-2894 | 1 window by unknown maker 1886) from from the old First Baptist Church in St. Johns | ||
| 06.0017 | art | complete | Oakland | Bloomfield Hills | 39221 Woodward Ave. | Cranbrook Art Museum (includes Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Brookside Lower School) | 1-877-GO-CRANBrook | unknown (16-18c); Jacob Weber the Younger (ca. 1665); Hans Jakob Bucher (1692); M.H. Robertson (17th c); William Rupprecht (1921-23); Charles J. Connick (ca. 1925); Michael Healy (ca. 1925); G. Owen Bonawit, New York (1927); A. Kay Herbert, Detroit" (20th c); Frank Lloyd Wright (20th c) | http://www.cranbrook.edu/default.asp | |
| 06.0018 | university/art | complete | Washtenaw | Ann Arbor | 525 S. State St. | University of Michigan Museum of Art | 734-764-0395 | Anonymous French (one half of medallion from west rose window of Reims cathedral, 13th century); Frank Lloyd Wright, designer; Linden Glass, Chicago, fabricator (1904, Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY); Stained glass and other decorative items from the Henry O. Havemeyer House, New York (1890-91) by Louis Comfort Tiffany, including three stained glass windows and two doors, a gilt metal/opalescent glass firescreen, a chandelier and portion of a lighting fixture, an air return grill, ten elements of mosaic frieze, and a peacock mosaic. | Related items: Over two dozen pieces of Tiffany art glass (vases, bowls, etc). Three lithographs and one oil painting by 20th century French stained glass artist Alfred Manessier. | http://www.umma.umich.edu/ |
| 06.0019 | art | complete | Kent | Grand Rapids | 155 Division Ave. | Grand Rapids Art Museum | 616-831-1000 | 1906 window by Mathias Alten | http://www.gramonline.org/ | |
| 06.0020 | history | incomplete | Ottawa | Zeeland | 37 E. Main | Dekker Huis Historic Museum | 616-772-4079 | window by John VanderBurgh in Christian Heritage Room, 1988 | http://www.zeelandmuseum.org/ | |
| 06.0021 | historic site | complete | Oakland | Troy | 60 W. Wattles Road at Livernois Road | Old Troy Church/Troy Museum and Historic Village | 248-524-3570 | 14 ornamental windows by unknown maker, ca. 1898. 2 windows by Shadetree Studios of Petoskey, MI (2004) | historic village with 1837 church on site | http://www.troymi.gov/Museum/ |
| 06.0022 | history | complete | Muskegon | Muskegon | 430 W. Clay Ave. | Muskegon County Museum | 231-722-0278 | 1 unknown (after WWI); 2 ornamental windows, originally from St. Joseph's church of Muskegon | http://www.muskegonmuseum.org/ | |
| 07.0005 | historic house site | complete | Oakland | Farmington | 33805 Grand River Avenue | Governor Warner Mansion | 248-473-7275 | 2 windows by unknown maker (ca. 1892); 1 window by Carol Rowe, Milford, MI (1982) | http://www.ci.farmington.mi.us/historicala.htm |
—Text by Michele Beltran, Michigan Stained Glass Census.
September 19, 2007.
Notes:
1) American Association of Museums. "Museums FAQ" (2007). http://www.aam-us.org/aboutmuseums/abc.cfm.
2) Ambrose, Tim and Crispin Paine. Museum Basics. New York : Routledge, 2006, p. 6.
3) These museums could include such places as the Bruekner Museum (Albion), which serves the Starr Commonwealth, a service organization for troubled youth, or the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum (Ishpeming).
4) Raguin, Virginia Chieffo and Helen Jackson Zakin, with contributions from Elizabeth Carson Pastan. Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States. London : Harvey Miller Publishers for Corpus Vitrearum Inc., c2001, 2:48.
5) The Herbert windows are located in Brookside School. Christ Church has windows by Wright Goodhue, New York; Nicola d'Ascenzo, Philadelphia; James H. Hogan/James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd., London; J. Gordon Guthrie; R. Toland Wright, Cleveland, OH; G. Owen Bonawit, New York; A. Kay Herbert, Detroit; and one window reportedly from a cathedral at Amiens, France. Michigan Stained Glass Census file 94.0158, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI.
6) Tutag, Nola Huse with Lucy Hamilton. Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987, p. 131.
7) Raguin et al, 2:20.
8) ibid., 2: 20-21.
9) ibid., 2: 21. Raguin dates the window at 1914; museum records date it as ca. 1925.
10) ibid., 1:145. The collection is well documented in Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States, as are all the works at Cranbrook, the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
11) ibid.,1: 145; Tutag, 17.
12) Raguin et al, 1:60-61.
13) ibid., 1:176.
14) ibid., 1:148-49.
15) ibid., 2:57-58.
16) Tutag, p. 3.
17) Traditional Fine Arts Online, Inc. "Mathias Alten: Journey of An American Painter." 2000. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa686.htm
18) Some of the the UMMA collection's pieces can be seen in Johnson, Marilynn et al., Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages. London: Scala, 2005.
19) Raguin et al, 2:15.
20) Truettner, Julie. "The Kelsey's Fox Memorial Window by the Tiffany Glass Company," The Kelsey Museum Newsletter, Spring 1992. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/research/Publications/spring2002/tiffany.html.
21) Ashlee, Laura Rose, ed. Traveling Through Time: A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005, p. 133. 22) Raguin et al, 2:52; Bridenstine, James A. Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Grosse Pointe Shores, MI: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, c1988, pp. 11-13.
23) Raguin et al, 2:91.
24) ibid., 2:48.
25) Michigan Stained Glass Census files 95.0060, 95.0061 and 95.0062, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI.
26) Michigan Stained Glass Census file 95.0056, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, MI.
27) Nolan, Jenny. "Auto Plant vs. Neighborhood: The Poletown Battle" ( 2007)The Detroit News Rearview Mirror. Detroitnews.com.
28) Eckert, Kathryn Bishop. Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 161-2.
29) Slager, Emma. "LLC Hands Calvin Key to its History." Chimes, 16 February, 2007.
30) MiBiz.com. "KIA Assumes Ownership of Historic Church" (18 September, 2006). http://www.mibiz.com/absolutenm/templates/template.asp?articleid=9792&zoneid=169.
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