AGG 2018 Conference Bus Tour, Cleveland, Ohio
Itinerary for Friday, June 22, 2018
2018 AGG Conference Tours
Guided Bus Tour Friday (1:00 pm - 5:30 pm) $45.00
Burial place of President James A. Garfield
Wade
Memorial Chapel, Lakeview Cemetery, 1901
"The Flight
of Souls" stained glass window marks the centerpiece at the Wade Chapel.
This depicts the consummation of the Divine Promise. Prior to being placed in
the chapel, the piece won first place at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in
Paris
The chapel was constructed in honor of Jeptha Wade, a Cleveland industrialist who founded Western Union Telegraph. Its interior, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The interior walls of the chapel walls contain large mosaics
consisting of thousands of glass pieces showcasing the 'River of Life' and the
'River of Death.'
Stained
Glass from such studios as Connick, Tiffany, Burnham, Heaton, and Paremba
Studio as well as 3 medieval windows (2 are composite).
Grace Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Features one of Willet Studios ‘gold’ windows.
Amasa Stone Chapel, 1911
Amasa Stone Chapel, 1911
In memory of Amasa Stone, railroad and bridge industrialist. Has a
large Kemp window and 2 small Tiffany windows.
The present building was designed by noted architect Bertram
Goodhue shortly before his death in 1924. The Cleveland-based Walker &
Weeks firm saw the project to completion four years later. Goodhue's towering
steeple, modeled after Mont Saint Michel in France, was dubbed the "Holy
Oil Can" by students on the Western Reserve campus – a nickname still used
today. Windows from studios T. Owen
Bonawit, Howard G. Wilbert, and R. Toland Wright.
Church of the Covenant, 1911
Designed by Cram & Ferguson architects. Windows from such studios as Gorham, Willet, R. Toland Wright, Doug Phillips
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