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 ...

Brightly colored butterflies hover near yellow and white flowers — the design on a stained-glass lamp shade created by Jim Mormann more than 20 years ago. That lamp shade — along with a melted Coke ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stained glass windows were a hallmark of upward-mobility sensibilities, an aspirational gesture for people enjoying the fruits of boomtown St. Paul. … but our independent journalism isn’t free to ...

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 ...

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PETOSKEY — During a four-decade career, Penny Kristo has left a decorative mark on hundreds of churches and thousands of homes. Stained glass art is a full-time work pursuit for Kristo, who with son ...

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 ...