He also ensured the preservation of Glen Burnie Historic House, now part of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.
[1] Glass Jr. was chairman and director of Panhandle Producing Co. of San Antonio, Texas; director of Pinto Well Servicing, Paladin Pipe Line Co., and Reliance Development Co., and president and director of North Star Petroleum Co.[2] Glass received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and attended graduate school at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
[2] In 1947, Glass Jr. met R. Lee Taylor in New York City shortly after the latter's discharge from the army, and the two became close friends, and eventually committed partners.
[4] After the relationship of the two men ended in the 1970s, Glass Jr. continued to entertain at Glen Burnie and Taylor managed the site, living on premises.
[5] Glass Jr. established the Glass-Glen Burnie Foundation to assure the preservation of Glen Burnie Historic House[6] and Gardens, Rose Hill,[7] and his collection of English and American paintings and decorative arts.