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

Greene, John Holden (1777-1850)

Born in Warwick, Rhode Island in 1777, Greene worked in Providence, where he designed more than fifty buildings for the capital city. Saint John's Cathedral (1810) and the Sullivan-Dorr House (1809-1810) are two of his most notable works in…

Tags: architect, Cathedral Church of St. John, The Wise Virgin

Gibson, Robert W. (1854-1927)

Robert Wilson Gibson was born in England, and studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He moved to America, and won a competition to design the All Saints Cathedral in Albany, New York (1888).

Tags: All Saints Cathedral, architect, Saints in Glory Rose Window

Esty, Alexander R. (1826-1881)

Alexander Esty was a noted church architect, based in Framingham, MA. He designed Grace Church, Newton, MA (1872), as well as many other churches in the area.

Tags: architect, Grace Church, Memorial Window for Lizzie Shinn

Deshon, Father George (1823-1903)

Jeremiah O'Rourke (1833-1915) and Father George Deshon were the architects of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, NY (1874-89). Father Deshon was one of the founding members of the new Paulist order.

Tags: 10 clerestory windows, 2 windows in Chancel, architect, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Windows in façade

Damon, C. Willis (1850-1916)

Damon was an architect in Haverhill, MA and one of the earliest graduates of the new architecture program at M.I.T. Damon was the original designer of the First Church, Congregational in Methuen, MA (1855/1882). The chancel of this church was…

Tags: architect, Decorative Windows, First Church Congregational, The Resurrection - Colonel Henry Coffin Nevins Memorial Window

Bryant, Gridley J.F. (1816-1899)

Bryant was the architect of the Gothic Revival First Church, Salem, MA (1835). Later he partnered with Arthur Gilman, and together they designed the Old City Hall in Boston (1862-65) in a Second Empire Baroque style and helped design the grid layout…

Tags: architect, Faith and Charity - Francis and Martha Peabody Memorial Windows, First Church

Brigham, Charles (c. 1841-1925)

Charles Brigham was born in Watertown, MA to an old Watertown family. He enlisted in the Union army in September 1862. After hostilities ceased, he started practicing architecture. At the end of the decade he joined John Hubbard Sturgis to form the…

Tags: architect, Morning Glories - window from William Watts Sherman house, Museum of Fine Arts, Rhode Island

Boyden, Elbridge (1810-1898)

Elbridge Boyden was the architect of the Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1880). Boyden was a prominent New England architect, best known for his Mechanics Hall (1855) and the Cathedral of St. Paul (1874) in Worcester.

Tags: architect, Channing Memorial Church, Christ Leading the Soul through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, St. Barnabas and the Virgin - Rev. Barnabas Bates Memorial Window

Beal, J. Williams (1855-1919)

J. Williams Beal was a Boston architect who trained at MIT and then worked for McKim, Mead & White before opening his own firm. He designed the All Souls Unitarian Church in Roxbury, MA (1889). It is now the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal…

Tags: All Souls Unitarian Church / Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, architect, Christ Preaching, St. John the Evangelist, St. Paul

Allen, Francis Richmond (d. 1931)

Francis Richmond Allen was the architect of the Thompson Memorial Chapel at Williams College (1905). This Gothic Revival chapel holds the President James Abram Garfield Memorial Window (1882), one of La Farge's most complex window designs. It was…

Tags: Abraham and an Angel, architect, President James Abram Garfield Memorial Window, Thompson Memorial Chapel