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The
Cassidy House
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Stained
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| Intro,
Clippings,
Dining
room,
Doors 1,
Exterior,
Ext
Doors,
Front
Doors
, History,
Interior,
Painting 1,
Painting 2,
Peek
In,
Pocket
Doors ,
Porch,
Roof,
Stained
Glass,
Staircase |
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Peace and Plenty
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Two stained glass Greek Goddess style windows fondly
called Peace and Plenty watch over the house from
the dining room.
Plenty, shown on the left, has a potato on her
shoulder.
Dr. Cassidy left Ireland as a child during the
time of the Irish Potato Famine, which resulted in
the large influx of Irish to America. So, it makes
sense that this window with an overflowing
cornucopia would also include a potato. |
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Dining room |
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Are
these Tiffany Windows?
No, but they are
similar to the work done by the Tiffany Glass Works.
In the early 1880s, when Louis Comfort Tiffany and John
La Farge gained
notoriety, artists created window scenes in the
medieval style, by painting on clear glass. Tiffany
believed that using colored glass allowed form to be
defined by the glass itself rather than by painting onto
the glass. Facial
features, hands, feet, etc were the only portions that
were painted. The Tiffany Glass works became
famous for the glass they manufactured and the quality
and variety of the windows, lamps, and objects
d'art produced there. As their popularity grew others
imitated their style and produced similar glass and
windows. |
Meet
Peace (left) and Plenty (right).
The windows are firmly held in
place by metal rods soldered to the leading. Custom
built shutters cover them at night. Click
here to see a close up of Plenty and her potato.
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of the windows are bent and bow out precariously, not
surprising when you consider they are over 110 years
old. They will have to be taken down and re-leaded in
the next few years to prevent further damage. This will
be a delicate, time consuming operation since they are
nearly 7 feet tall. Any miscalculation or sudden
movement during the removal process could cause the
bent leading to fail and the glass to shatter. |
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Click
here to see how the artist used multicolored
glass to enhance the drape of Peace's skirt.
(140K) |
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Click
here to see the details of one of the panels
that sit below Peace and Plenty.
(170K). |
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has a dove above her head and holds a basket
overflowing with flowers. Note how the
fingers are painted on the hand. The arm is also
painted to give it depth. But the skirt
relies on the shades and texture of the glass to
give it shape. |
Floral detail from Peace's basket.
There
is no front or back to the windows. The features are
painted on both sides of the glass. You can stand
inside or outside and Peace looks straight at you.
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Striated glass |
Jewel Glass |
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Hall |
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| Transom
window over the front doors. This is on the inside
of the entrance vestibule. On the other side, just above
the front doors the window still has the gold lettering that
says "Dr. Cassidy". Note the yellow glass at
the bottom. This picture doesn't do it justice.
The light coming through the window made to yellow glow like
gold. |
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North Bedroom
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North bedroom's stained glass windows. There are two more on the sides of the alcove.
Animal damage is evident
in the teeth marks on the left window's sill. Maybe it was that stinker Rocky the
Raccoon. We met him (her?) one day as he crawled up an
adjacent bedroom wall, working his way between two exposed studs.
Scratch, scratch, scratch! Rocky shared the house
with us during the first year and could be quite noisy. He met an untimely
death underneath the dumpster one rainy night.
Squish... |
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