Imaging
and Photo
Technology 1 - Spring Class
Architecture Interior Assignment Adjunct Professor - Don Cochran These
images are of an old German Catholic Cathedral on Rochester's North
side. St. Michaels Catholic church was built by the local community in
the late 1880's. Dedication - September 29. 1890
The cost of the church was estimated at about $150,000. The stone material is Lockport sandstone. rock-faced. The base walls are brown Medina stone. Mason work was given to H.H. Edgerton for the sum of $40,773. The carpenter work was given to Joseph May at a cost of $24,350. The tons of Lockport sandstone and Medina brownstone were hauled by barge down the Erie Canal, then onto horse and wagon, affixed to gin poles with slings and pulleys. The amount of human labor was phenomenal. The building was designed to seat 1,100 parishioners. The 15 large stained glass windows show scenes of the Old and New Testament in brilliant red, blue, green, and gold hues. One of the stained glass windows was entered into the Chicago Columbian Exposition on Chicago in 1893 and won the First Prize in ecclesiastical art. The window thus honored represents Daniel in the Lions' Den as related in the Book of Daniel. The magnificent organ was built by the J. W. Steere & Son Organ Company of Springfield, Mass., and was dedicated in 1903. It has 33 speaking stops, and 25 mechanical stops, pistons, pedal movements, etc. There are a total of 2,169 pipes. The organ was installed at that time for $3,400. Today its replacement would cost well over $100,000. The church has only had a few organists during its history: Frederick Pohl from 1893-1940 and Lillian Karnes, who was the organist from 1940 - 1975.
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This activity is made possible by the Imaging
and Photographic
Technology department of the
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester
Institute
of Technology (RIT)
