Tiffany Census

St. John's in the Wilderness, Paul Smiths, New York

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:	3.1.1
Rating:	Nothing
Address:	Route 86
Location:	Paul Smiths, New York 12970, USA
Lat/Lng:	44.44053, -74.24695
Tiffany 1910:	Page 18
Duncan 1980:	Page 203
Tiffany 1897:	Page 20
Tiffany 1893:	Not listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1910 just lists an "Episcopal Church" in the Adirondacks, so it might be another church, but seems likely to be this one [TIFF1910, DUNC1980, DEDUCED]
	Tiffany 1897 locates the church in "Paul Smith's, Adirondacks" [TIFF1897]
Completeness:	Medium
Building status:	Destroyed
Building date:	1877 [ORG]
Architect:	J. Lawrence Aspinwall [CHU1905]
Comment:	On 4 Dec 1927 a fire destroyed the building, as well as its memorial windows (there is a replacement building) [MF1927, ORG]
Also of interest:	1894 Charlotte Trudeau Memorial Window, by Lathrop Company [AEJ1894]
	1905 Edward Livingstone Trudeau, Jr., Memorial Window, "Pilgrim", designed by Edward Peck Sperry and made by Gorham [CHU1905, MF1905]
	1921 Edward Livingston Trudeau Memorial Window and Paul Smith Memorial Window, both landscapes, by Henry Wynd Young [NYT1921]

Site Items

3.1.1.1:

Byrd Memorial Window: Cherubs (1894) (Destroyed)

Item 3.1.1.1

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

Status:	Destroyed [MF1927, ORG]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Byrd Memorial Window (Bird Memorial Window)
Theme:	Cherubs [TIFF1897]
	Climbs [TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
	Christ Walking on Water [CT1894, AEJ1894]
Tiffany 1910:	Page 18
Duncan 1980:	Page 203
Tiffany 1897:	Page 20
Signature:
Other documentation:	[AEJ1894]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Mary Byrd (20 Apr 1863 - 3 Jul 1893) and Samuel Wyden Byrd (24 Aug 1872 - 17 Sep 1892) [AEJ1894, FINDAGRAVE, NYS1893, DEDUCED]
Donor:	their mother, Lucy Carter Wickham Byrd [CT1894, FINDAGRAVE, NYTR1910]
Date:	Installed ca. Jul 1894 [CT1894]
Inscription:
Cost:	$500 [AEJ1894]
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1897 calls this the Byrd Memorial Window [TIFF1897]
	Tiffany 1910 calls this the Bird Memorial Window [TIFF1910, DUNC1980, DEDUCED]

References

AEJ1894:	The Albany Evening Journal (1 Jun 1894, p. 5)
CHU1905:	The Churchman (26 Aug 1905, p. 322)
CT1894:	Chicago Tribune (29 Jul 1894, p. 11)
DEDUCED:	Deduced from other information
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
FINDAGRAVE:	Findagrave.com, for deducing biographical or genealogical information
MF1905:	The Malone Farmer (19 Jul 1905, p. 1)
MF1927:	The Malone Farmer (7 Dec 1927, p. 1)
NYS1893:	New York Sun (6 Jul 1893, p. 7)
NYT1921:	New York Times (8 Aug 1921, p. 11)
NYTR1910:	New York Daily Tribune (12 Jun 1910, p. 7)
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)