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Stained glass windows saved from a church that was demolished last year will find new homes at Kirkwood Community College and other sites in Cedar Rapids.
“It’s thrilling news,” said Kirkwood art instructor, Arbe Bareis, who is in charge of the college’s art acquisition for new buildings and renovations. “Kirkwood is truly the community’s college and I can’t think of a better place for the windows to go.”
Bareis said Kirkwood will receive the “lion’s share” of the 104 window panels removed from First Christian Church, 840 Third Ave. SE, before it was razed last May to make way for a parking lot for the Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa medical pavilion.
Several of the windows also will go in the PCI medical pavilion’s Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center of Iowa, under construction at Second Avenue and 10th Street SE, as well as in the chapel of St. Luke’s Hospital.
The Carl & Mary Koehler History Center organized a review panel to decide which applicants would receive the century-old windows, created by celebrated glass artist Louis Millet.
Read the articles linked above for more details, including other recipients of the windows. Do you think the review panel made good choices in locating the windows?
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I’m glad they are in public places, as a constant reminder of why I’ll never again do business with St. Luke’s.
Thank you John. Let me remind everybody that Mike $undall promised 125 to 150 new jobs when the new “Mayo Clinic of the South” opened only to renege on that. They can now fire 35 of our fellow taxpayers. Mike $undall will be enjoying his “Penthouse” third floor (his statement , not mine) and “Valet Parking” Have your driven first Avenue recently? What a mess. The city took PCI’s conducted traffic study as proof that everything would be ok with traffic patterns. Right, the check is in the mail.
It is wonderful that PCI and Mike $undall cares so much about the windows that they will make sure that they are put on display around the city. Now, how about the 150 jobs they promised in exchange for $12 million in T.I.F. and the closure of a major Avenue? Anybody?