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

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)

Wise Virgin

Trinity Church,
206 Clarendon St.,
Boston, MA 02116

Tags: 1885, John La Farge, Massachusetts, Trinity Church

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…

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

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

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

Vision of St. John: Ieposolyma, the New Jerusalem

Trinity Church,
206 Clarendon St.,
Boston, MA 02116

Tags: 1884, John La Farge, Massachusetts, Trinity Church

Virgil and Homer

Memorial Hall,
Harvard University,
45 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tags: 1883, John La Farge, Massachusetts, Memorial Hall

Venetian Banker

Christ Church,
1643 Lonsdale Avenue,
Lincoln, RI 02865

Tags: 1884, Christ Church, John La Farge, Rhode Island

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

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

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