“Every detail of this restoration looks to bring back the natural daylight, while adding to the environmentally friendly efficiency, and restore the look and feel of the Union. “Many of the structural renovations to the building will correct previous modifications, some that occluded its natural daylight and blocked its graciousness. That’s why we are restoring them to maintain our history, not universally replacing the windows,” says Amy White, director of the Michigan Union. “The windows will return to the original look and feel of the 1919 windows.
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“We made a tracking sheet for each of the 540 windows so at any given time we can tell you at what stage of restoration they are in,” said Full Spectrum co-owner Valerie McCartney. The windows are from three different eras - 1919, 19 - so experts needed to modify the restoration of wood sashes, leaded glass panels, hardware and weather-stripping to each era. A worker for Full Spectrum Stained Glass works on one of the 540 windows from the Michigan Union that the company is restoring. And fortunately for those who will enjoy the Union when it reopens in winter 2020, those pieces of history will be intact - gleaming like they did at the turn of the 20th century - and will be more energy efficient. Representatives and staff from the University of Michigan’s University Unions, Student Life, and the student organization Building a Better Michigan recently toured the Full Spectrum facility to watch (and photograph) the process underway.įrom start to finish the pictures tell an intricate story of the Union’s past.
The Michigan Union will reopen in winter 2020.
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