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... and they are mocking us for an airport that took not more than 30 years
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Here is a story about the VA and Stain Glass window of Lincoln and Grant being remoted somewhere... it's an elaborate story...
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A lucky few National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) branches were intended to display elegant stained-glass windows of Civil War heroes, artifacts from temporary commemorative arches built for the Grand Army of the Republic’s (GAR) 21st Annual Encampment in September 1887 in St Louis, Missouri. The oversized windows — called “cathedral glass” or “transparencies,” and incorporated into state-of-the-art “illuminations” at the gathering – are as fascinating as components of a technology-driven display as they are for their artistic beauty. After sunset, electric lights would bring the images of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant to life for onlookers in the streets below, in the way that neon and Jumbotrons would have first awed twentieth-century audiences.
Of four windows proposed, only two are known to survive. The only one currently on exhibit is of President Lincoln at the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System - Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, Kansas (former Western Branch NHDVS). The Lincoln memorial window had been in the “new” Queen Anne-style Ward Memorial Hall (Building 29) built in 1888; it was likely removed in the early 1990s for restoration before being reinstalled in a new domiciliary (Building 160).
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A lucky few National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) branches were intended to display elegant stained-glass windows of Civil War heroes, artifacts from temporary commemorative arches built for the Grand Army of the Republic’s (GAR) 21st Annual Encampment in September 1887 in St Louis, Missouri. The oversized windows — called “cathedral glass” or “transparencies,” and incorporated into state-of-the-art “illuminations” at the gathering – are as fascinating as components of a technology-driven display as they are for their artistic beauty. After sunset, electric lights would bring the images of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant to life for onlookers in the streets below, in the way that neon and Jumbotrons would have first awed twentieth-century audiences.
Of four windows proposed, only two are known to survive. The only one currently on exhibit is of President Lincoln at the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System - Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, Kansas (former Western Branch NHDVS). The Lincoln memorial window had been in the “new” Queen Anne-style Ward Memorial Hall (Building 29) built in 1888; it was likely removed in the early 1990s for restoration before being reinstalled in a new domiciliary (Building 160).
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Here is a church in Mississippi where the stained glass windows were done by Louis Tiffany son of the fame Charles Tiffany... There one civil war stained glass window in the church and is unique and Vicksburg battle...
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Construction of the church was completed in 1880. The stained glass windows, which were paid for mainly by donations from Civil War veterans around the country, were added to Holy Trinity in the years that followed. Making the windows even more special is the fact that they’re one of the first post-Civil War memorials dedicated to both the Union and Confederacy.
Adorned With Tiffany Windows, The Church Of The Holy Trinity In Mississippi Is A True Work Of Art
There are only a handful of Tiffany windows in the Magnolia State, and a majority of them can be found inside this church.
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Construction of the church was completed in 1880. The stained glass windows, which were paid for mainly by donations from Civil War veterans around the country, were added to Holy Trinity in the years that followed. Making the windows even more special is the fact that they’re one of the first post-Civil War memorials dedicated to both the Union and Confederacy.