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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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MSGC : Collections : Window

Window

Building Name: Private Residence

City: Britton

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Date of Window: 1868

Subject/Title of Window: Fleur-de-lis

Brief Description of Subject: This is one of the original windows installed at the time the church was built in 1868. When the new memorial windows were installed in 1905, these windows were left in the kitchen at the southwest corner and in the pastor's study in the northwest corner. The furnace room was between these two rooms. This northwest corner was later turned into a part of the kitchen, the cake room, with a sink and water installed in the middle. After a fire in 1943, this window was placed in the Fellowship Hall in the northwest corner whre the memorial window was displayed.

It had clusters of purple grapes around the border but those could not be saved by the people who mounted the window for hanging. The blue is not part of the original, but a trace of the grapes is at each corner.

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