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New York, NY - Columbia University was founded in 1754 and it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth in the United States. Over the years, the University expanded and changed locations, until in 1897, President of the University, Seth Low, built the Morningside Heights campus, as part of his grand design for an ideal University. This campus,  located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is where Columbia University prospers to these days.

Grand Light was contracted by Columbia University to reproduce lighting components on existing lamp posts throughout the Morningside campus.

New Haven, CT - Grand Light has completed restoration work on four historic lighting fixtures from Yale University's Briton Hadden Memorial Building, home to the Yale Daily News.

New Haven, CT - Grand Light has completed the modification and retrofit of fourteen historic bronze lighting fixtures from the exterior of City Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts.

New Haven, CT - Grand Light has begun the process of restoring & modifying fourteen historic bronze lighting fixtures from the exterior of the City Hall in Springfield, Massachusetts.

New Haven, CT - The restoration and replication of 216 Gothic-style pendant lighting fixtures from Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Lodge has been completed.

New Haven, CT - The frames of four custom chandeliers being fabricated for the Tower Hill First Presbyterian Church in Red Hill, New Jersey are now complete and will soon be given an antique brass finish.

New Haven, CT - Whether a lighting restoration project involves minor repairs or recreating an entire fixtures that had been lost or destroyed, work on historic glass can often require the use of replacement material. 

Red Bank, NJ - Steady progress is being made on the fabrication of four hand-crafted custom chandeliers for the Tower Hill First Presbyterian Church in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Yellowstone National Park, WY - Steady progress is being made on the historic lighting fixtures from the recreation hall of the Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park.

This past Sunday, the New Haven Register's Donna Doherty reported on the recent restoration work carried for the Shubert Theater in an article titled "Spiffed-Up Shubert".

From the article:

"Kaplan and Fisher are quite happy with the way the repair/restoration has been handled, especially since, through their research and recommendations from city engineers, they found that the best people for the job were local companies: Cheshire's John Canning & Co., Ltd. Painting & Conservation Studios and Grand Light & Supply, which has restored all the light fixtures, calling in Branford stained-glass artist Jayne Crowley for her expertise."

NEW HAVEN, CT - The restoration of a large 60" diameter pendant from the historic Shubert Theater has been completed, and plans are being made for the lighting fixture to be reinstalled later this week.

NEW HAVEN, CT - As the lighting restoration work for the Shubert Theater approached completion, it was determined that a 60" diameter pendant light, the largest in the theater, should also be restored.

NEW HAVEN, CT - An outdoor lighting fixture, previously restored by Grand Light, has been replicated for installation at Yale University's Calhoun College.

CONCORD, MA - This past Tuesday, restoration professionals from Grand Light returned to Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts to reinstall a beautifully restored crystal chandelier. The chandelier had been on display for a number of decades in the Stedman Buttrick House, which serves as the park's headquarters and visitors' center for the historic North Bridge.

With the original crystals now re-pinned with replacement crystals of the same grade, it was time to rewire the arms of chandelier.

Grand Light recently slumped eight glass bowls for the historic Paola Community Center building in Paola, Kansas.

The building, built in 1918, originally served as the Ursuline Sisters Academy Boarding School.  It was recently given to the community by the Ursuline Sisters, and renovated for use as a community center.  Today, the building serves as an arts showcase for Paola and Miami County's diverse communities, offering multicultural arts and education programming.