WE DID DO WINDOWS; and we need your help to find them
Brothers, Back in the late 1800's and early 1920's our Hibernian Brothers
were responsible for having some beautiful stained glass windows installed
in hundreds of Catholic Churches that were being built at that time. For
your information there was over 45 AOH Division in the State of Michigan
with more than half of them being located in the Upper Peninsula. We have
discovered two windows so far; one in St. Leo's in Detroit and one in
Ishpeming in the UP. To date over 200 windows have been discovered through
out the United States. These windows span the Country from Clontarf, Minn.
in the North to Charleston, S. C. in the South and from Seattle in the
West to Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Portland, Maine in the East.
There is no doubt that we have also Stained Glass Windows in many of the
Churches that were built in Michigan around the period mentioned above.
We are only in the beginning stages of our search for these windows and
this is where you can help.
The following is a list of Cities and Towns where Divisions of the AOH
existed during those years.
Alpena (St. Bernard's), Coldwater, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Cheboygan, St
James, Harrison (Clare), Escanaba, Gladstone, Flint, Ironwood, Hancock,
Calumet, Hubbell, Dollar Bay, Laurium (Sacred Heart), Ionia, Lansing, Mt.
Pleasant, Jackson, Hubbardston, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Adrian, Pickney
(St.Mary's), St. Ignace, Negaunee, Ishpeming, Marquett, Republic, Muskegon
(St. Mary's), Ontonagon, Saginaw, Minden City, Mamistigue, Owosso, Port
Huran, Ypsilanti, Detroit; (St.Vincent, Our Lady of Help, Holy Redeemer),
Dexter, Sault St. Marie, Humboldt, Wyandotte, Norway, Quinnesac, and
Linden.
If you come across any of these AOH windows please give me a call at
(517) 263-5556 or E-mail me at pmam@tc3net.com
Thanks. Pat Maguire |
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