Stained Glass Window Project > a talented and VERY Interesting Masonry Contractor Mike Wilson (TRIMAC) discussing his work

These 7 antique windows were "found" in the basement of a building being renovated that once housed a Synagogue in the 1950's and -'60's in what is now- The Mayne Stage Theatre- on Morse near The El Tracks.

 

Interestingly enough- the person involved in that renovation had an interest in a small Reform Congregation on Chicago's Far North Side- Emanuel, located on Sheridan Road.

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After my friend Sharon rehabilitated

these very-old-windows (which are alleged to have originally been from a previous Congregations Synagogue located in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood) and

strengthened them, from years of neglect-

I was asked to develop a frame and mounting system,

whereby they could be placed within

a Custom Built Wooden Window Fenestration-

and held in place

to be in the same plane as the Window Wall-

and align vertically.

 

I came up with these "lollipops"- fabricated from

Rolled Rings of a special (unequal legs) sized Angle Iron-

and another ring of Cold-Rolled Square Bar-

Engineered & rolled to perfectly "mate"

with the "INNER" diameter of that angle-

to sandwich- or gently "trap" these gorgeous windows

and allow the sun to shine through them.

 

The metalwork had to be "precise"- and slightly "real"

in finish to match w/the color /patina

of the leading in the stained glass.

Done