John La Farge Stained Glass in New England: A Digital Guide

Richardson, Henry Hobson (1838-1886)

Born in Priestley Plantation, Louisiana, Richardson was educated at Harvard and then studied architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts (1859–62). While in Europe he worked under Henri Labrouste and Jakob Ignaz Hittorf. He initiated the…

Tags: architect, Christ in Majesty, Presentation of Virgin in Temple - Julia Appleton McKim Memorial Window, Resurrection of Christ - Mary Love Boott Welch Memorial Window, Trinity Church, Vision of St. John: Ieposolyma the New Jerusalem, Wise Virgin

Stephenson, Harris M. (1845-1909)

Harris M. Stephenson was the architect of St. John's Episcopal Church, Jamaica Plain, MA, (1882).

Tags: architect, Decorative Window, St. John's Episcopal Church

Stern, Robert A. M. (1939)

Born in New York City, Stern was educated at Columbia University and then Yale. He was a well-known author and teacher before starting his own practice. He believes in design as a process of cultural assimilation and that architecture is a…

Tags: architect, Decorative Windows, Madonna, Our Lady of Mercy Chapel, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. John

Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps (1867-1944)

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was a prominent New York architect who studied at Harvard and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the architect of St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University (1904-07).

Tags: architect, St. Paul Preaching at Athens, St. Paul's Chapel

Sturgis, John Hubbard (1834-1888)

Sturgis had a twenty-year partnership with Charles Brigham as the firm Sturgis & Brigham. The firm concentrated on fine domestic architecture, most of the houses being around the Back Bay quarter of Boston and in Newport. They produced fine public…

Tags: Abby Sears McCulloch Memorial Window, architect, Emmanuel Church, Mary Greene Memorial Window, Morning Glories - window from William Watts Sherman house, Museum of Fine Arts, Susan Welles Memorial Window

Upjohn, Richard (1802-1878)

Renowned for church architecture, Upjohn was influential in the spread of Gothic Revival in America. Born in Shaftesbury, in Dorset, England, he initially trained as a cabinet-maker. In 1829 he came to the U.S. and settled in Boston where he started…

Tags: architect, Church of the Ascension, Mary Magdelene - Joanna - Mary the Mother of James at the Sepulchre, The Ascension (mural), The Good Shepherd, The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Van Brunt, Henry (1832-1903)

Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, he practiced architecture in his hometown with William Ware for twenty years. Their buildings with stained glass by La Farge include Memorial Hall, Harvard (1871-78) and Christ Church Episcopal, Lincoln…

Tags: architect, Battle Window, Christ Church, Christian Knight, Cornelia - Mother of the Gracchi, Madonna and Child, Memorial Hall, Venetian Banker

Vaughan, Henry (1845-1917)

Vaughan was born in England, and came to the United States in 1881, where he became a leading figure in the late Gothic revival. His ecclesiastical designs inspired Ralph Adams Cram and others. With George Frederick Bodley, he laid the plans for the…

Tags: architect, Figures of Wisdom, The Angel of Help - Helen Angier Ames Memorial Window, Unity Church

Walker, Charles Howard (1857-1936)

Walker was the architect of Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Boston (1892). The church burned in 1978, and was converted to the Church Court Condominiums by Graham Gund. Stained glass windows had previously…

Tags: Angel at the healing waters of Bethesda, architect, James Ayer Memorial Window, Mount Vernon Congregational Church

Ware, William (1832-1915)

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 1832, Ware graduated from Harvard University in 1852. He studied at the Lawrence Scientific School before moving to New York to become a draftsman in the architectural offices of Richard Morris Hunt. Eight…

Tags: architect, Battle Window, Christ Church, Christian Knight, Cornelia, Madonna and Child, Memorial Hall, Mother of the Gracchi, Venetian Banker

Wells, Joseph C. (1813-1860)

Joseph C. Wells was an English-born architect who practiced between 1839-1860 in New York City. He was a founding member of the American Institute of Architects in 1857. He was the designer of the Newport Congregational Church (1855-57); this church…

Tags: architect, Ceiling Paintings, Newport Congregational Church, Non-figurative windows

White, Stanford (1853-1906)

Born in New York City, White learned architecture under H. H. Richardson, later moving to Paris where he lived with the family of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In 1872 he joined the office of Gambrill and Richardson in Boston and worked on the…

Wood, Rev. Hermon Gaylord (1831-1913)

Rev. Wood was the architect of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, West Roxbury, MA (1893). Born in upstate New York, he was self-taught as an architect. He built several churches in Buffalo, Cleveland, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. In the late 1870s,…

Tags: architect, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, The Angel Holding a Lyre (or The Harpist)

All Saints Cathedral

62 South Swan Street,
Albany, New York 12210

Tags: 1888, New York, Robert W. Gibson, Saints in Glory Rose Window

All Saints' Episcopal Church

44 Park Avenue,
Whitman, Massachusetts 02382

Tags: 1868, Anna and Clara Mason Memorial Windows, Massachusetts

All Souls Unitarian Church / Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church

Previously at the All Souls Unitarian Church now the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church. The windows are now at the Boston College McMullen Museum of Art.

Tags: 1889, Christ Preaching, Massachusetts, St. John the Evangelist, St. Paul, Williams J. Beal