Sunday, December 2, 2007

St. Peter, Mansfield





















6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi all ... St. Peter Mansfield is an awesome structure ... and is designed by -- none other than -- William P. Ginther ... The same architect of St. Mary's/Norwalk, St. John/Defiance, Good Shepherd/Toledo ... and many more. I am working on a book on him ... because I grew up in one of his churches in Ashtabula -- and it had a profound effect on me. Ginther was from Akron, OH --- and deserves to have his name recognized. If you guys ever get up to Akron/Cleveland, you need to check out St. Bernards ... also by Ginther. Absolutely stunning. BTW, I would love to meet up w. you guys some time (in Cleveland, or Toledo, for a photo shoot ... it could be a lot of fun ... Chip

Jeffrey Smith said...

If you make it to Toledo, just let me know. I'd enjoy that.

Jeffrey Smith said...

The murals were painted by Hungarian artist John Bernat, who also did work at St. Stephen's, in East Toledo. His wife, Martha Milligan Bernat, a Toledo native carved the Stations of the Cross you can see in some of the pictures.

Kyle Gase said...

Count me in, it would be fun.

Alex Fries said...

Toledo's a bit far for me

József said...

hi, our dear friends, at far to Hungary (Country) in Middle-Europe, in Toledo! I'm director of the Local Museum Dombóvár city, a very nice little town in south part of Hungary. www.muzeumdombovar.fw.hu . In this days we make a remembering-programmes for two nice artist in USA ( from 1941; first, NY, later Mansfiled, Toledo and Monrovia): Mr. John Bernat (1910-1964) painter and his lovely wife: Mrs. Martha (Miligan) Bernat (1912-2007). We would like to make some friendly connection with those persons whos interest for they working/artist life and for his qualities. Thank you v.m., yours dr. Kriston-Vízi, József museum dir. Dombovar. muzeum.dombovar@gmail.com