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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Studio

Payne Spiers Studio
Paterson, New Jersey

Biography: Payne-Spiers was one incarnation of the several studios formed around the George Payne family of stained glass makers who were active in New Jersey, dating back to 1875. The eldest George Payne was born in Scotland and worked as a painter for Clayton and Bell of London before immigrating to Montreal and ultimately moving to Orange, NJ in 1890. His son George Hardy Payne and grandson George Leslie Payne (1873-1979) continued the family business, ultimately relocating the studio to Patterson. George Spiers (1904-1974) was born in New York and worked in his father's studio, Richard Spiers and Sons, which would become Payne-Spiers when he partnered with George Leslie Payne in 1935. Payne and Spiers worked together ca. 1935-46 and expanded to a New York office in 1940, although Payne's role was largely administrative. Spiers would retire in 1966 after twenty years with the studio. George L. Payne's studio, meanwhile, continued under the operation of his widow after his death and ultimately sold all its contracts and name to Rohlf's Stained and Leaded Glass Studio of Mt. Vernon, NY.

World War II Memorial Window

Window Name: World War II Memorial Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Window Name: Wesley Window

Building Name and City: First United Methodist Church of Dearborn

Lay Person's Window

Window Name: Lay Person's Window

Building Name and City: First United Methodist Church of Dearborn

Window Name: Matrimony

Building Name and City: Trinity Episcopal Church

Window Name: Te Deum

Building Name and City: Trinity Episcopal Church

Grapes and Vine

Window Name: Grapes and Vine

Building Name and City: Trinity Episcopal Church

Window Name: Crucifixion

Building Name and City: Trinity Episcopal Church

St. John, Christ, and St. Paul

Window Name: St. John, Christ, and St. Paul

Building Name and City: Christ Church Detroit

The Robson Window

Window Name: The Robson Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

Te Deum Laudamus

Window Name: Te Deum Laudamus

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Sarah Sparrow Window

Window Name: The Sarah Sparrow Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Herrman Window

Window Name: The Herrman Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The McClintock Window

Window Name: The McClintock Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Chamberlain Window

Window Name: The Chamberlain Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Ceeley Window

Window Name: The Ceeley Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Schuon Window

Window Name: The Schuon Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal

The Carter Window

Window Name: The Carter Window

Building Name and City: St. Paul's Episcopal