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PRESERVATION IN PRINT APRIL 2007 13<br />
S T A I N E D G L A S S A R T<br />
Preserving the Stained Glass Heritage<br />
of New Orleans<br />
Symposium: Saturday, April 21, 8:30 - 4:30<br />
Trinity Episcopal School<br />
1315 Jackson Avenue<br />
Tour: Sunday, April 22, 2:00 - 5:00<br />
Begins and ends at St. Alphonsus Art and Cultural <strong>Center</strong><br />
2045 Constance Street (at St. Andrew Street)<br />
The buses will leave promptly at 2:00<br />
Please register early!<br />
Send registration form and check to: Friends of St. Alphonsus,<br />
P.O. Box 57143, New Orleans, LA 70157-7143. For phone orders<br />
or information, call 504/636-3040.<br />
Sponsored by Friends of St. Alphonsus Art and Cultural <strong>Center</strong>, with<br />
assistance from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the<br />
<strong>Preservation</strong> <strong>Resource</strong> <strong>Center</strong>.<br />
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This window at Our Lady Star of the Sea portrays<br />
St. Frances Cabrini, the first American saint. Pope Leo<br />
XIII sent her to the United States to work with immigrants<br />
and poor children.<br />
PRC’s Stained Glass Tour<br />
Goes from Historic St. Roch to<br />
St. Charles Avenue April 22<br />
by Patricia Andrews<br />
he spring tour will feature<br />
Touro Synagogue and Our Lady<br />
TStar of the Sea, St. John the<br />
Baptist and St. Mary’s Assumption<br />
Catholic churches. In addition to the<br />
tour, there will be a symposium on<br />
April 21, “Preserving the Stained Glass<br />
Heritage of New Orleans.”<br />
Our Lady Star of the Sea is located<br />
in the National Register Historic<br />
District Faubourg New Marigny,<br />
known locally as St. Roch. This massive<br />
brick building in a Greek cross<br />
Gene Koss, of the Tulane University art department,<br />
created this window for the new wing of<br />
Touro Synagogue in 1990.<br />
Featuring windows from the pope’s first radio<br />
broadcast to sinuous art nouveau lines in a<br />
St. Charles Avenue synagogue, four outstanding<br />
houses of worship will open for PRC’s<br />
biannual Stained Glass in Sacred Places Tour<br />
on Sunday afternoon, April 22.<br />
plan houses windows by two studios<br />
popular in New Orleans: Emil Frei, of<br />
St. Louis and Munich, and the Franz<br />
Mayer Company, also from Munich.<br />
Sure to please tour goers are the portrayals<br />
of Pope Pius XI making the first<br />
radio broadcast from the Vatican and<br />
of Pope Pius X offering communion to<br />
the children.<br />
St. John the Baptist and St. Mary’s<br />
Assumption churches both greet worshipers<br />
with overwhelming expanses of<br />
elaborate German-style stained glass.<br />
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Address: ____________________________________________________________________<br />
_______ Symposium attendees ($25 fee includes lunch) $__________<br />
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St. Mary’s Assumption was begun in<br />
1858, reflecting the growth of the<br />
German population in the Irish<br />
Channel. Construction of St. John the<br />
Baptist Church in Central City dates<br />
to 1868 and shows the vibrancy of the<br />
area near the end of the New Basin<br />
Canal in the years immediately following<br />
the Civil War.<br />
The sanctuary of Touro Synagogue<br />
on St. Charles Avenue, a Beaux Arts<br />
structure dedicated in 1909, is surrounded<br />
by stained glass that combines<br />
geometric forms with sinuous art nouveau<br />
lines. The subdued but warm feel<br />
of these windows contrasts with the<br />
sunny, symbolic glass of the adjoining<br />
Tour ($15 for members of the PRC or<br />
Friends of St. Alphonsus & $20 for non-members)<br />
Total:<br />
__________<br />
$__________<br />
chapel. Here, local artists Gene Koss<br />
and Ida Kohlmeyer, who had never<br />
produced a window before, demonstrate<br />
the virtuosity of this medium.<br />
Secure parking will be available at<br />
St. Alphonsus Art & Cultural <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
2045 Constance Street. The bus tour,<br />
from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m., will culminate<br />
with a reception at the St.<br />
Alphonsus <strong>Center</strong>. Bring your binoculars!<br />
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