Salvaged stained glass windows from a now-closed nursing home have helped transform a Minnesota facility’s chapel 14 miles away.
The sacred feature is housed at Good Samaritan Society — Maplewood, a 71-bed skilled nursing facility in Maplewood, MN. The stained glass was salvaged 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],” said 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 said. “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 open 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 said.
A video gallery of the chapel and stained glass windows can be found here.
