From Yesterday’s Corning’s Leader Newspaper

Sent from Brent Wedding of Corning

By Jeffery Smith

jsmith@the-leader.com

August 25. 2013 5:23PM

Carder window to be installed soon at City Hall

The historic Frederick Carder Memorial Window will soon have a new home at City Hall.

Work is underway on a $20,000 project to install the 7-foot-tall, 42-inch-wide window on the first-floor, near the primary flight of stairs, said city Art Committee Chairman and historian Tom Dimitroff.

Carder, the man who founded Steuben Glass, designed the window in honor of the Corning soldiers killed in World War I, including his son Cyril Carder.

Two honor rolls that include the names of the 30 Corning residents killed in WWI, as well as those killed in other wars, will be installed to the right of the Carder window.

Rose Blackwell, a city Art Committee member, said finding a home for the historic window and the honor rolls has been discussed by the committee for a number of years.

“I think there are a lot of people who are going to appreciate it, not only as a beautiful window, but the meaning of the window,” Blackwell said. “What it means to some people, and not just the loss of Cyril Carder, but all those Corning people who’ve given their lives for their country, is important.”

The window was first installed in 1931 at the former Corning War Memorial Library.

In 1987, 12 years after the War Memorial Library closed its doors, then-Mayor Daniel Killigrew formed a city committee, which eventually moved the historic window to the Rockwell Museum of Western Art.

In 2000, plans were made to renovate the Rockwell Museum, and the window was placed in storage, where it currently remains.

Blackwell called placing the historic window in City Hall “just wonderful.”

“I can’t think of a better location,” Blackwell said. “It’s going to be illuminated, so it can been seen 24 hours a day and it will enhance City Hall’s part of the city art trail.”

Dimitroff agreed once the window is installed at City Hall it will have an important meaning on the art trail. The city Art Trail is a group of public art locations included in a Corning city brochure.

“It’s really just a wonderful piece,” Dimitroff said. “I’m hopeful the project will be completed by Sept. 18, Frederick Carder’s birthday, so we can hold a grand opening that day at City Hall.”

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A fundraising campaign to pay for the project to install the historic Frederick Carder Memorial Window and two honor rolls at City Hall is underway.

Anyone interested in donating funds for the project can send them to Three Rivers Development Corp. at 114 Pine St., Suite 201, Corning, N.Y.

Art Committee Chairman and historian Tom Dimitroff said about half of the funds for the $20,000 project have been collected.

Donors like the Carder Steuben Club, the Southside Neighborhood Association, Rotary Club, the Corning Inc. Foundation and the American Legion are just a few of the major donors.

Pairpoint

from Harry Morgan of Beverly, Mass

In response to Bonnie’s request for help, this amethyst vase is Pairpoint. The giveaway is the grape pattern. Pairpoint was somewhat unique in that they engraved little stems connecting the grapes, and I can see the stems in the photos.

and, from Beth Shaut of Corning

Bonny your vase is Pairpoint as there are stems between each grape and that was done on the Pairpoint Grape and Vine pattern.

finally, from Francis Allen of Hyatsville, Maryland

Probably everyone responding says it’s Pairpoint

2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.

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