Explore Answer key from previous page: 1. Corning Incorporated, C Building – glass and Vitrolite, an opaque architectural glass 2. Birkerts Building – glass sprayed with liquid stainless steel, mirrors, concrete 3. Corning Family YMCA – brick and glass
Junior Girl Scout Requirements: Completed: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10 You’ve earned your badge! Make sure to visit the Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum, also located in Corning, NY, to learn even more Corning history. Please join us at The Corning Museum of Glass for our other Scout offerings throughout the year. Girl Scouts will enjoy our Bead It! program, and all Scouts benefit from our Super Scout Saturday event every fall. Visit our website for more information: www.cmog.org/scouts. Please contact us at scouts@cmog.org if you have any questions about the Museum’s Scout programming. 8
Local Lore A self-guided brochure for Scout troops, dens, or families. Concepts explored in this visit will assist Scouts studying local history, influential people, and monuments.
Explore Changes in Corning
Corning Architecture
The glass industry is an important part of Corning’s history. Let’s explore how it has changed over the years. First, find the Glass Collection Galleries and visit the Crystal City Gallery. On the wall outside this gallery you will see an early painting of Corning before any glass factories existed here and a photograph of the old Corning Glass Works factory. If you are familiar with Corning, is there anything from the painting you recognize today?
Over time, more and more buildings were added to Corning, each with their own special style. See if you can find these three buildings around the vicinity of the Museum. What kinds of materials were used to build these structures? Record your notes about the buildings below.
The Studio
Parking Lot
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Museum Way
Here is a photo of Corning Glass Works from the 1870’s:
YMCA
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1. Corning Family YMCA (1936)
2. Birkerts Building (part of the Museum) (1980)
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Parking Lot
Birkerts Main Building Museum Building (curvy)
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Corning Incorporated C Building
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3. Corning Incorporated, C Building (1957)
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Explore Frederick Carder and Steuben Glass Works
Finally, compare those photos with a current one of Corning Incorporated (this used to be called Corning Glass Works):
Frederick Carder was an English designer who came to Corning in 1903 and worked as the Manager of Steuben Glass Works for 30 years. He developed many new colors and techniques for glass. Carder worked with glass until he was 96 years old! What has changed in Corning and what is still the same? ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Rouge Flambe Vase, Corning, NY, Steuben Glass Works, about 1916
Visit the Carder Gallery at The Studio, which is across the parking lot at the rear of the Museum. Write a short poem about Carder’s contribution to Corning here:
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Are any of the changes good for Corning? ___________________________________________________________ Would you like to undo any of the changes? ___________________________________________________________ How will Corning change in the next 20, 50, or 100 years? Remember, there are always new glass inventions being made by Corning Incorporated, such as LCD computer screens. Draw a map, picture, or chart below to show how Corning may change.
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Explore Corning The Crystal City
Corning is called the “Crystal City.” Walk through the Crystal City Gallery to see if you can figure out why. You will find clues by looking at the models of men working in the factories and watching the black and white video. Also, look at the labels of the objects in the gallery. In what city were all of these objects decorated? Covered Potpourri Jar, Corning, NY, H. P. Sinclaire and Co., about 1926
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Little Joe
In downtown Corning, there is a tall white tower that was used around 1912 to stretch out long glass tubes for thermometers. It is no longer in use today, but it is a landmark for Corning. “Little Joe” is the glassblower painted at the top. See if you can find the tower when you look through the real submarine periscope in the Optics Gallery of the Museum’s Innovation Center. Can you also see Corning Incorporated from the periscope? Remember, Corning Incorporated looks like the picture on page 3.
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