Tiffany Census

First Parish Congregational Church, Wakefield, Massachusetts

Note: the text in the square brackets ([...]) are a short form of references which have been used to deduce the corresponding information.
The meaning of the site and item attributes is explained in the glossary.

Site Id:	21.40.1
Rating:	1 star
Address:	1 Church Street
Location:	Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880, USA
Lat/Lng:	42.50736, -71.07301
Tiffany 1910:	Page 72
Duncan 1980:	Page 215
Tiffany 1897:	Page 45
Tiffany 1893:	Listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1893 lists the site twice, once under First Congregational Church and once under First Parish Church [TIFF1893]
	Tiffany 1897 and Tiffany 1910 list the site twice, once under Congregational Church and once under First Parish in Wakefield [TIFF1897, TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
	Tiffany 1897 (p. 73) quotes an extract from a letter from Junius Beebe saying he was pleased with a memorial window placed in the church "for us" [TIFF1897]
Completeness:	Medium
Building status:	Extant
Building date:	1912 [CA1919, ORG]
Architect:	Hartwell, Richardson & Driver [CA1919]
Comment:	Previous, 1890-1892, building destroyed by fire, 21 Feb 1909 [NYT1909, CA1919, ORG]
Also of interest:

Site Items

21.40.1.1:	Darling Memorial Window (Destroyed if ever existed)
21.40.1.2:	ornamental windows (Destroyed if ever existed)
21.40.1.3:	Hamilton Memorial Window: Moses (1924) (Extant)

Item 21.40.1.1

Glossary (of terms) and References (as found in square brackets [...])

Status:	Destroyed if ever existed [NYT1909, CA1919]
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:	Darling Memorial Window
Tiffany 1910:	Page 72
Duncan 1980:	Page 215
Tiffany 1897:	Page 45
Signature:
Other documentation:
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Comment:	There was a David P. Lane Memorial Window in the previous church building, and one of the donors for the Lane window was D. Harry Darling, and so possibly that was this window [CA1919, DEDUCED]

Item 21.40.1.2

Glossary (of terms) and References (as found in square brackets [...])

Status:	Destroyed if ever existed [NYT1909, CA1919]
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:
Description:	ornamental windows [TIFF1897, TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
Tiffany 1910:	Page 72
Duncan 1980:	Page 215
Tiffany 1897:	Page 45
Signature:
Other documentation:
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Category:	Ornamental

Item 21.40.1.3

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Glossary (of terms) and References (as found in square brackets [...])

Status:	Extant [ORG]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Hamilton Memorial Window
Theme:	Moses [ORG]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:	Louis C. Tiffany [DT2012]
Other documentation:
Designer:
Memorial details:	Samuel King Hamilton (1837-1922) [ORG]
Donor:	his wife, Mrs. Annie E.D. Hamilton [ORG]
Date:	Installed 1924 [ORG]
Inscription:
Category:	Moses

References

CA1919:	Commemorative address, Samuel K. Hamilton (1919, p. 36-54)
DEDUCED:	Deduced from other information
DT2012:	Donald Traser, personal communication (18 Sep 2012)
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
NYT1909:	New York Times (22 Feb 1909)
ORG:	Organization
TIFF1886:	Announcement in American Architect and Building News, Tiffany Glass Company (6 Feb 1886)
TIFF1893:	Chicago Exposition booklet, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1893)
TIFF1897:	A List of Windows: And Extracts from Letters & Newspapers, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1897)
TIFF1910:	A Partial List of Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Studios (1910)