Michigan Stained Glass Census

Michigan Stained Glass Census The Michigan Stained Glass Census, which began in 1992 as part of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program, is a statewide survey of architectural stained glass.

Statewide, community-engaged research project documenting Michigan architectural stained glass coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at Michigan State University. With the help of Volunteer Census Takers, the Census is locating, recording, and photographing stained glass windows throughout Michigan. The information collected by Census Takers is maintained in a computerized archive a

t Michigan State University. Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. The Michigan State University Museum holds a small collection of objects related to Michigan's stained glass history. The Michigan Stained Glass Census is an ongoing project that focuses attention on a long-neglected portion of Michigan's cultural heritage. By researching and recording information about the origins, styles, and subject matter of architectural stained glass, the Census is creating an invaluable resource of visual and documentary material related to Michigan's social, religious, and art history. The Census is also encouraging individuals and groups to better appreciate and preserve the stained glass treasures in their own communities.

Evangelical Bethlehem Church, now known as Bethlehem United Church of Christ at 423 S. Fourth Ave in Ann Arbor was built...
05/31/2026

Evangelical Bethlehem Church, now known as Bethlehem United Church of Christ at 423 S. Fourth Ave in Ann Arbor was built 1894-1895 and designed by the Detroit architect, Richard E. Raseman. The origin of its stained glass is disputed. Many of its windows have been attributed to both the Milwaukee Mirror and Art Glass Co. and a little-known German studio, Glasshuette Shonmunzach. The debate is ongoing.

Learn more about this site's stained glass in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-981/

Old St. Mary Catholic Church is located at 646 Monroe Street in the Greektown district of downtown Detroit. It was built...
05/27/2026

Old St. Mary Catholic Church is located at 646 Monroe Street in the Greektown district of downtown Detroit. It was built 1884-1885 and designed by Peter Dederichs. Nearly all of its stained glass was designed and fabricated by the Detroit Stained Glass Works.

Learn more about this site's windows in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-83/

The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer [Catholic] at 1721 Junction Avenue in Detroit was built 1922-1923 and designed by D...
05/23/2026

The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer [Catholic] at 1721 Junction Avenue in Detroit was built 1922-1923 and designed by Donaldson & Meier, prolific Catholic church architects of the era. Most of its decorative windows were designed and fabricated by A. Kay Herbert of Detroit and installed at the time of the church's construction.

Clipping #1: Detroit Free Press, April 1, 1923

Clipping #2: Michigan Architect and Engineer, March 1926

Learn more about this site's stained glass in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-823/

The Detroit Masonic Temple was designed by George D. Mason and constructed at 500 Temple Street between 1920 and 1926. I...
05/19/2026

The Detroit Masonic Temple was designed by George D. Mason and constructed at 500 Temple Street between 1920 and 1926. Its interior is decked out in decorative embellishments of all kinds, including stained glass. One of its interior theaters, known as the Commandery Asylum, features windows designed and fabricated by A. Kay Herbert of Detroit. They were installed in 1927.

Clipping #1: Detroit Free Press, October 15, 1927
Clipping #2: Detroit Free Press, April 24, 1932
Clipping #3: Michigan Architect and Engineer, March 1926

Christ Church Cranbrook is located at 470 Church Rd in Bloomfield Hills. It was constructed 1925-1928. It's architect, t...
05/15/2026

Christ Church Cranbrook is located at 470 Church Rd in Bloomfield Hills. It was constructed 1925-1928. It's architect, the legendary Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of Boston and New York City, died in 1924, leading many architectural historians to believe that Goodhue's successors, Mayers, Murray & Phillip, executed portions of the design. Top artists of the United States and Europe were enlisted to execute the structure's myriad embellishments. Its massive west window was designed by James H. Hogan and fabricated by James Powell & Son of London, England. It depicts numerous women of note, drawn from both the history of Christianity and the secular world. Incorporated among its 16 distinct groupings of figures are:

Hannah, mother of Samuel
Monica, mother of St. Augustine
Mary, mother of Jesus
Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist
Mary, mother of James the Apostle
Mary, mother of Mark the Evangelist
Mary Magdelene
Martha, sister of Lazarus
Priscilla, who helped St. Paul in Greece
Lydia, who housed St. Paul in Galatia
Phoebe, who helped St. Paul in Cenchrea
Dorcas, whom Paul raised from the dead
Perpetua, Felicitas and Agnes, martyrs
Teresa, founder of the Teresian order aka Barefoot Carmelites
St. Catherine of Siena
St. Hilda of Whitby
St. Clare of Assisi
Mary S. Francis (1847-1937), missionary
Julia C. Emery (1876-1916), missionary
Deaconess Berth Sabine (1844-1931), missionary
Anne C. Farthing (1862-1910), missionary
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), Vassar professor
Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902), former Wellesley College President
Mary Lyon (1797-1849), Mount Holyoke College founder
Dr. Mary E. Glenton (1862-1923), nurse and missionary
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), nurse and philanthropist
Clara Barton (1821-1912), former American Red Cross President
Edith Louisa Cavell (1872-1915), nurse, martyr, war hero
Liza Lehman (1862-1918), musician
Cecelia, patron saint of music
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944), composer and pianist
Élisabeth Vigée LeBrun (1755-1844), painter
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), painter
Mary Cassatt (1855-1926), painter
Angelica Kaufman (1741-1807), painter
Amy Lowell (1875-1924), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), poet
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet
Christina Georgina Rosetti (1830-1894), poet
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848), novelist
Jane Austen (1755-1817), novelist
Mary Ann Evans Cross aka George Eliot (1819-1880), novelist
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), novelist
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), novelist
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Queen Isabella (1451-1504)
Queen Victoria (1819-1880)
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), abolitionist and social reformer
Joan of Arc (1412-1431), martyr
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), novelist and abolitionist
Dolly Madison (1768-1849), suffragist
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), suffragist and abolitionist
Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), suffragist, physician, minister
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), suffragist
Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), actress
Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), actress
Mary Anderson (1859-1940), actress
Ellen Terry (1848-1928), actress

Learn more about this site's stained glass in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-116/

St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 711 S. Saginaw St in Flint was erected 1872-1873 and designed by prolific, Detroit-based ...
05/11/2026

St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 711 S. Saginaw St in Flint was erected 1872-1873 and designed by prolific, Detroit-based architect, Gordon W. Lloyd. Lloyd's extant designs in Michigan house more Tiffany windows than any other architect's. Installed in 1926, the Pierce Memorial Window at St. Paul's Episcopal is a very rare example of a Flint church's interior decor being covered by Detroit dailies of the era.

Clipping: Detroit Times, April 3, 1926

Learn more about this site's stained glass in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-544/

First Congregational Church at 403 S. Jefferson Ave in Saginaw was built 1867-1868 and designed by Gordon W. Lloyd, a pr...
05/07/2026

First Congregational Church at 403 S. Jefferson Ave in Saginaw was built 1867-1868 and designed by Gordon W. Lloyd, a prolific, Detroit-based architect of the late 19th century. Among other brands, its interior features a set of windows designed and fabricated by Hollman City Glass Specialty of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a stained glass manufacturer that is still in business today (https://www.cityglassspecialty.com/). The City Glass designed windows were installed 1969-1973.

Learn more about this site's stained glass in the online pages of the Michigan Stained Glass Census: https://michiganstainedglass.org/collections/building.php/id=208-792-1211/

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