Blanche Mouledoux Comiskey, a longtime Preservation Resource Center volunteer who spearheaded the annual Stained Glass Art in Sacred Places Tour for three decades and helped to save St. Alphonsus Church from the wrecking ball, died Aug. 8. She was 94.
Comiskey started the PRC’s twice-yearly Stained Glass Tour with Susan Levy in 1989. It grew from dozens of attendees to hundreds before the last tour in 2019.
The Stained Glass Tour led Comiskey and Levy to begin a decades-long process to save St. Alphonsus Church, which was built for Irish and English Catholic immigrants between 1855 and 1857 but faced demolition after it fell out of use in 1979…