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

Renwick, James (1818-1895)

Born in New York City into a wealthy and well-educated family, Renwick initially studied engineering at Columbia University. He graduated in 1836, already interested in architecture but with no formal training. His first major commission came in 1843…

Tags: architect, Madonna and Child, St. Barnabas Church

Porter, Cyrus Kinne (1828-1910)

Cyrus Porter was the architect of Trinity Church, Buffalo, NY (1884-86). He also designed many other buildings in Buffalo.

Tags: architect, Ascension, Christ Appears to his brother James, Epiphany, Good Samaritan Window, Resurrection window or Noli Me Tangere, Rose window or St. Catherine’s Window, The Lord is My Shepherd, The Rest on the Flight to Egypt, The Sealing of the Twelve Tribes, The Transfiguration, Trinity Church - Buffalo

O'Rourke, Jeremiah (1833-1915)

Jeremiah O'Rourke and Father George Deshon (1823-1903) were the architects of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, NY (1874-89).

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

Mitchell, John Ames (1844-1918)

John Ames Mitchell was educated at Harvard University, and studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a nephew of Oliver Ames Jr., and in 1875 designed Unity Church in North Easton, MA. This town is known…

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

Mead, William Rutherford (1846-1928)

Born in Brattleboro, Vermont in August 1846, Mead went to Norwich University and graduated from Amherst College in 1867. He began studying architecture in New York and then spent some time in Florence, Italy. Upon returning to New York, he struck up…

Maginnis, Charles Donagh (1867-1955)

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Maginnis came to America at age 18. In Boston, he apprenticed with Edmund Wheelwright as a draftsman. Inspired by the Gothic Revival churches of Ralph Adams Cram, Maginnis became one the leading figures in…

Tags: architect, Christ in Majesty, Parish House: Wise Virgin, 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

McKim, Charles Follen (1847-1909)

Born in Pennsylvania, McKim studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1872, and worked in the office of H. H. Richardson in New York. In 1877 he joined up with William Rutherford Mead, then two…

Littell, Emlen T. (1840-1901)

Emlen T. Littell was the first designer of the Church of the Incarnation, New York (1864-65). In 1882, fire destroyed most of it; the church was rebuilt in 1882 by David Jardine. In 1896, Heins and La Farge completed the spire. John La Farge painted…

Tags: architect, George Whitney Smith Memorial Window, God as Good Vintner, John Riley Memorial Window, Murals of the Nativity and Adoration of the Magi

La Farge, Christopher Grant (1862-1938)

Christopher Grant La Farge (1862-1938) was the eldest son of the artist John La Farge, and a partner in the firm of Heins and La Farge. Their religious commissions include the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Providence, RI (1889; tower 1897). The…

Tags: Angels of Adoration, Angie Lacey Peck Memorial Window, architect, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Decorative Windows, First Church Congregational, Helen A. Shafer Memorial Window, Houghton Chapel, The Resurrection - Colonel Henry Coffin Nevins Memorial Window

Heins, George Louis (1860-1907)

George Louis Heins was the partner of Christopher Grant La Farge (1862-1938) in the firm of Heins and La Farge. Their religious commissions include the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Providence, RI (1889; tower 1897). The chancel of the First…

Tags: Angels of Adoration, Angie Lacey Peck Memorial Window, architect, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Decorative Windows, First Church Congregational, Helen A. Shafer Memorial Window, Houghton Chapel, The Resurrection - Colonel Henry Coffin Nevins Memorial Window

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

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