Crystal Falls Glass Shop Celebrates 30 Years Serving Iron County Community

Shannon Toski picked up her first piece of glass at a shop in South Florida when she was 18 years old. Nearly three decades later, she owns Iron County Glass & Showers LLC in Crystal Falls, a one-person operation that has quietly become a fixture in the Upper Peninsula's construction and home repair landscape.

The Iron County Reporter profiled Toski's business this week, marking what the paper called "30 years of craftsmanship and care." Toski's own biography describes her experience as "over 24 years" of fabricating and installing custom glass and mirrors, a figure that reflects her hands-on career rather than the age of the LLC itself, which the Better Business Bureau lists as three years old. Whatever the precise count, the arc of her career is striking: a teenager cutting glass in Florida, a young professional working through the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, and since 2015, a sole operator building a client base across Iron County and the broader UP.

"I moved to Iron County in 2015 and was fortunate to continue working with glass while traveling all over the UP for the last 8 years," Toski wrote in her business profile. "I have been part of hundreds of successful commercial projects here as well as countless residential jobs. It has afforded me the opportunity to learn about this great region while doing what I am so passionate about."

Iron County Glass & Showers handles a broad range of work: custom shower and tub enclosure design and installation, custom mirrors, residential window repairs and replacement including insulated glass and screens, commercial storefront repair and maintenance, glass railings, and glass cutting for tabletops and shelving. The breadth of that list reflects the career path Toski describes, moving through multiple roles in the industry across two states before settling in Crystal Falls.

The BBB notes the business is not accredited, a status that reflects no formal complaint record but also no completed accreditation process. Toski offers free consultations and can be reached at (906) 367-3709 or IronCountyGlass@gmail.com.

For a county-seat town the size of Crystal Falls, a specialty trade business with deep roots in both commercial and residential work represents a practical asset. Broken storefront glass, a cracked insulated window unit, or a custom shower project for a home renovation all require the kind of skilled fabricator that is hard to find locally in a rural UP county. Toski's profile suggests she has spent the better part of a decade making herself that resource.