Bronze Check Writing Desk - Integrity Trust Company - 1528 Walnut Street - Paul Philippe Cret, Architect

 

W. S. Jones Inc - 1116 Walnut Street - 1913

  

Public Ledger 26 Sept 1921

Bronze Grilles at Entrance - Navy Y.M.C.A. - 117 N. 15TH Street - 1930

 

Terra Cotta Details - Pittsburgh Athletic Association - The Brickbuilder 1911

 

Y. M. C. A. League Island / Navy Yard - 1911 - 1926

 

Concourse - Pennsylvania Railway Station - NYC - Guastavino Brickwork - The Brickbuilder August 1910

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Terra Cotta Details for Filter Plant Building - Atlantic Terra Cotta Company - The Brickbuilder 1910

 

Last Supper - Stained Glass by Artist Paula Himmelsbach Balano - Originally in Ascension Church, Kensington, Philadelphia

 

Paula Himmelsbach Balano - 1877-1967 - Biographical Excerpt - King of Prussia Excerpt - Spring 2015

She was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1877 and moved to Philadelphia at the age of two. She attended Drexel Institute (now Drexel University) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1899 she won the Academy’s Cresson Travelling Scholarship that enabled her to study in Paris under Alphonse Mucha, noted Czech artist. On returning to the United States, Balano continued her artistic training, first with Cecilia Beaux and later with William Merritt Chase. She supported herself as a portrait painter and teacher, serving on the faculty of the School of Design for Women, now Moore College of Art, from 1910 to 1934. 

Balano was already in her forties when she entered the stained glass profession. She first apprenticed with Nicola D’Ascenzo in Philadelphia. Several years later, in 1925, Balano opened her own studio in Germantown. In 1928 she received her first major commission, for twenty-nine stained glass windows in St. Stephens Church (Philadelphia). The church closed in 1993 and the windows were purchased by the Archdiocese of New York for adaptive reuse projects. Balano may have been the first independent woman in the field at a time when all studio proprietors were men. She usually executed all of the work herself, from initial design to completed panel, receiving assistance only for the final stages of installation. Paula operated her studio at 22nd and Spring Garden Streets until the Great Depression, and then moved to Germantown until her death. 

Balano Studios - 2025 Spring Garden Street - The Living Church Annual 1931

 

 

St. Joan of Arc Church - Frankford Ave and Atlantic Street - Pre-1951

 Thx to John Rowe for Photo.

Apartment Building - Sixteenth and Locust Streets - 1908

 

The Record Building Lobby - 1908

 

Terra Cotta Design - Horticultural Hall - S. Broad Street - Conking-Armstrong Co.

Stevens Patented Fire Retarding Composition - Furness, Evans & Co. - 1908

 

Colonial Era Presbyterian Church, Frankford Ave and Church St.

 

Karl Bitter - Panel over 15th and Market Streets, Broad Street Station - no date

 

Terra Cotta - Karl Bitter - Furness, Evans & Co.

 

Pediment - Broad Street Station - no date

 

Fish and Produce Business, Delware Avenue and Dock Street - 1889

 

Ogontz Mansion - East and West Wings - 1889

  

Assembly Hall of the German Society of Pennsylvania - Spring Garden and Marshall Streets - 1889

 

Reading Railroad Station, Ninth and Green Streets - 1889

 

Bridge Over Nicetown Lane, in Laurel Hill Cemetery - 1889

 

Belmont Landing - 1889

 

Mary J. Drexel Charity Home - Girard Avenue near Twenty-Second Street - 1889

 

Universalist Church of the Messiah - North Broad Street, Corner of Montgomery Avenue - 1889

 

Forrest Home, Holmesburg - 1889

 

Philadelphia Autographic Register Co. - 1025 Arch Street - 1889

 

Fruit Business at Night - 1889

Armory of the First Regiment - SE Corner Broad and Callowhill Streets - 1889

 

Edwin J. Howlett & Son - SE Corner Broad and Wallace Streets - 1889