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AUBURN — Carol Foley remembers admiring the stained-glass windows at McIntosh School during her days as a junior high school student.
Now, Foley owns them.
She and her husband, Steve, bought the set of five windows for $1,500 this week in an auction of items from the 88-year-old school, which is being demolished.
“We are going to put them in our home,” Foley said. “I just could not bear the thought of them going under the wrecking ball.”
Foley said she is not sure how she’s going to display the windows in her country home west of Waterloo.
A family friend, Jim Marks, used an electric chisel Thursday to blast away plaster and remove the windows. Steve Foley and his father, John, loaded them carefully for transport. Each window stands more than 8 feet tall.
Steve Foley also attended junior high school in the McIntosh building. John Foley went to high school there, graduating in 1943.
“Ed Benbow was my principal, and that was where his office was,” Carol Foley said, as she watched the men rescue the windows from a second-story office at the school. “I and now I work for his son.”
Mark Benbow serves as principal at Waterloo Elementary School, where Carol Foley works as a technology paraprofessional.
Carol Foley said she has assured people that she is not going to sell any of the historic stained-glass windows.
“They’re all going to stay together” at her home, she said.
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