Lone Rock Point, a mostly wooded peninsula jutting into Lake Champlain two miles north of downtown Burlington, remains unfamiliar to many locals despite its intriguing history. For starters, a couple of the city's most stately 19th-century buildings stand there. One of them contains a group of stained-glass windows that even most visitors to Rock Point have never seen. That's a particular pity, since, besides being flat-out beautiful, the windows demand attention as 100-year-old expressions of proto-feminist artistry.
Larry Ribbecke, a Burlington-based designer and restorer of stained glass, ranks the quality of the windows in the chapel of Bishop Hopkins Hall among the highest of those he's seen during a 40-year career. Although the master craftsman has worked on those unsigned windows a number of times, he says he has no idea who made them.
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