Second Story Preservation
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to the preservation of historically significant stained glass, sacred architecture, and cultural resources of significant artistic merit — in Colorado and across the country.
An invitation, written in the dust of a sanctuary at noon.
Once a generation, a community decides that a roof, a window, or a wall of stone is worth more than its replacement cost. They commit time, money, and craft to keep it standing. Decades later, those same decisions arrive at us — beautiful, fragile, and asking what we will do.
Second Story Preservation exists for those moments. We raise funds, distribute grants, educate the public, and do the unglamorous accounting of stewardship — so that a child standing beneath an angel window in 2074 can have the same hush their grandmother had in 1924.
Beneath the inscription Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. of New York lies a century of opalescent confection — drapery glass, copper foil, the slow alchemy of metal oxides. To stand beneath it is to stand inside light itself.
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Gothic Revival sanctuaries do not announce themselves. They wait. Their flying buttresses and pointed arches are arguments, in stone, that the worth of a community can be measured by what it bothers to build for the people not yet born.
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Restoration is patience disguised as labor. A single panel of stained glass may take six months of careful re-leading; a roof system, three years of fundraising. We exist to make those years possible — through grants, education, and gathered will.
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“To preserve a window is to inherit the light it was
built to remember.”
The spaces under our stewardship — sanctuaries, lancet windows, restoration in progress, and the people who have stood in these rooms before us.
Every gift is invested directly into restoration grants, public education, and the slow, careful work that historic preservation requires. Donations are tax-deductible under our 501(c)(3) determination.