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1909–1947 · THE PARISH BUILDING RECORD, BANKED IN THE CHURCHES ARTICLES
The town's stained glass is one parish's life work — hauled by horse and wagon, and twice over a war memorial. Gathered from the churches record into one article, as the checklist demands: at St. Stanislaus Kostka, Terre Coupee, the glass began with the church itself — window glass hauled from Michigan City by horse and wagon, and stained glass set behind the altar before the dedication. In 1947 the parish added six more stained-glass windows, and four more were donated the same year — ten windows in one year, two of them war memorials: to Sergeant Joseph Kuspa and to Private Stanley C. Wichlacz, both of the parish, both dead in the Second World War, their names carried in glass in the church their families built. Around the glass the parish built with its own hands — a rectory in 1889–90, a parish hall in 1963–64 — and the grotto of the early 1940s stands in the churches article with them. What the gathered record does not carry is the makers: no glazier, studio or designer is named for any window in any carrier reached — the commissions print as the parish's work, and the artists' names stand as the article's named residue, settler the parish building records and the dedication coverage of 1909 and 1947. The town's mural class prints with it: no mural commission in a church or public building is attested for this ground in the record reached, and the glass is the whole of the town's commission record.
Sources:
- Architecture, nc-arch-churches, and Churches & Religion — the glass whole: the Michigan City haul, the altar glass, the 1947 windows and the Kuspa and Wichlacz memorials.
- The makers' residue and the mural negative: the searches of this section, November 2026; settlers as named.