Legend Of ‘The Liberty House’
This crazy yet beautiful project began with a stained glass window of an eagle created by none other than the legendary Richard Schnacky, a very prolific stained glass artist. It had been installed in a home with pitched gable windows, but after relocating, it became an orphan, an oddball with nowhere to put it. Then one day, Tony & Lisa Rockdaschel replaced the old wood-frame 9-pane grid windows in their house and they gave them all to me! I’m now window rich! So, I actually built a greenhouse using that cool stained glass window as a starting point.
I then made my own windows out of reclaimed cedar decking and old storm windows. Everything is held together by my unique system of interlocking tabs and old sash locks.
If you look at the top right corner, you will see what looks like a ‘sun’. That is left over from a broken mosaic made by Kory Dollar. She liked my project and not only gave it to me, but she cut some yellow tinted glass to use as “rays” emanating from the sun, which I immediately glued to the other window as balance to the other side.
Mark & Jamie stopped along the road one day and took great interest in the Liberty House, then later we met again at the St. Helens Home & Garden Show where we eventually became super-duper friends!
We did eventually sell it - cheap - to a gal up in Vernonia where I put it on top of a raised garden bed. It fit nicely. She moved away the next summer. I’ve not seen it since.