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Union Avenue Christian Chapel
West End
Stained Glass: Emil Frei Stained Glass Company
Design: Robert Harmon, ca. 1948
A small, single-window installation for a chapel at Union Ave. Christian Church. The panel is not an actual window, but is (normally) lit from within.
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Fountain Park Congregational Church
West End
Stained Glass: Emil Frei Stained Glass Company
Design:
Even translated onto a solid media like wood panel, the Frei style of the early 1950s is unmistakable. These boards and window were minor alterations in the lobby of the Fountain Park Congregational Church.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church
3600 Hampton - South City
Mural: Emil Frei Stained Glass Company
Design: Emil Frei Jr.(?), ca 1948
On the older chapel building, the main doorway bears a mural in the unmistakable Frei style. The building also has simple Frei windows in its main space; photographs are on their site.
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Florissant Presbyterian Church
North County
Architect: Froese, Maack & Becker
Stained Glass Design: Joan Velligan, 1961
A very modestly scaled Mid-Century Modern church, with laminate wood beams supporting the interior. The grand window at the end of the sanctuary is adorned with the Chi-Rho and a 6-pointed star.
The side and rear windows are simply filled with colored, undecorated panels.
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Tandy Medical Building
3737 N. Kingshighway - North City
Lobby Lamp: Emil Frei Stained Glass
Design:
A whimsical hanging fixture made with suspended shards of faceted stained glass, in the lobby of a stock 1960s office building.
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St. Stephen Protomartyr Church
South City
Stained Glass: Emil Frei Stained Glass Company
Design:
"I Am the Vine" / "You Are the Branches"
These shrine windows at St. Stephen Protomartyr are rendered in a style very similar to that used at Calvary Mausoleum.
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