Salvaged stained glass windows from a now-closed nursing home have helped transform another facility’s chapel — 14 miles away.
The sacred feature is now housed at Good Samaritan Society-Maplewood, a 71-bed skilled nursing facility in Maplewood, MN. The stained glass was taken from the entryway of another nearby nursing home that closed in 2009 and repurposed for Maplewood.
“That was one of the nice things coming here — it was seeing the windows that we saw every morning in the dining room [in Roseville],” says Lisa Corcoran, a certified nursing assistant at Maplewood. “Very happy they saved those.”
The glass was first placed in Maplewood’s dining room, which is where staff and residents used to hold worship, until the facility created its chapel after a fundraising campaign in 2011.
“It’s my favorite room in the whole building,” Maplewood Administrator Susan Jensen says. “If you need to take a break and you need to quiet yourself and you want to think, it’s open all the time.”
The chapel is available 24/7 for families, residents and staff, for whatever their needs.
“We use it as kind of a community room, but it always calms people,” Jensen notes.
