Tiffany Census

Lake Placid Club, Annie Dewey Memorial Chapel, Lake Placid, 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:	3.164.2
Rating:	Nothing
Address:	Lake Placid Club Drive
Location:	Lake Placid, New York 12946, USA
Lat/Lng:	44.28595, -73.97758 (approx)
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Tiffany 1893:	Not listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Completeness:	High
Building status:	No more
Building date:	1923 [DEWEY1932]
Architect:
Comment:	Windows removed summer 1992 [ADE1992]
	The chapel was damaged by fire 2 Oct 1992 [ADE1992]
	Windows sold 1999 [AAHN1999]
	The chapel remains were demolished by 2001 [WEB]
Also of interest:

Site Items

3.164.2.1:	Russell Memorial Window: St. Luke (1925) (Removed)
3.164.2.2:	Elliott Memorial Window: landscape (1926) (Removed)
3.164.2.3.a:	Dewey Memorial Window: The Sower (1927) (Removed)
3.164.2.3.b:	Dewey Memorial Window: The Prophet (1927) (Removed)
3.164.2.3.c:	sky continuing the landscape of the windows in the doors (1927) (Removed)
3.164.2.4:	Wood Memorial Window: landscape (1927) (Removed)
3.164.2.5:	Woelfkin Memorial Window: Resurrection (1928) (Removed)
3.164.2.6:	Viot Memorial Window: landscape (1928) (Removed)

Item 3.164.2.1

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Russell Memorial Window
Theme:	St. Luke [LPN1925A, LPN1925B]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1925A, LPN1925B]
Designer:
Memorial details:	William George Russell, M.D. [LPN1925A, LPN1925B, DEWEY1932]
Donor:	his friends [LPN1925B, DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed Aug 1925 [LPN1925B]
Lancets:	3 [PHOTO, DEWEY1932]
Inscription:	Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which you may have of him for the Lord hath created him. [LPN1925B]
Category:	St. Luke
Location:	over door to cloister, south wall [LPN1925B, DEWEY1932]
Cost:	$1300 [LPN1925A]
Comment:	The door also had glass in it [LPN1925B]

Item 3.164.2.2

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Elliott Memorial Window
Description:	landscape [UOD1926]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1926, UOD1926, NYEP1926]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Addie Mabee Lounsbery Elliott (11 Sep 1872 - 30 Jan 1925) [INSCRIPTION, LPN1926, UOD1926, NYEP1926, FINDAGRAVE]
Donor:	her three grandchildren [LPN1926, UOD1926]
	John Elliott [DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed Jun or Jul 1926 [LPN1926, UOD1926, NYEP1926]
Lancets:	3 [PHOTO, LPN1926, UOD1926, DEWEY1932]
Inscription:	1872 // In Memory of / Addie Mabee Elliott // 1925 [PHOTO, UOD1926]
Category:	Landscape
Location:	next to pulpit, north wall [LPN1926, LPN1927, DEWEY1932]

Item 3.164.2.3.a

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Dewey Memorial Window
Theme:	The Sower [LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Melvil Dewey (10 Dec 1851 - 26 Dec 1931), originator of the Dewey Decimal System [DEWEY1932, FINDAGRAVE]
Donor:	two old Club members [LPN1927]
	an unnamed admirer [DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed ca. Jun 1927 [LPN1927]
Size:	61" high x 30" wide [AAW2005, AOAG2022]
Lancets:	1 [PHOTO, DEWEY1932]
Inscription:	Behold a sower from afar / He goeth forth with might / The rolling years his furrows are / His seed the growing light / Washington Gladden [PHOTO, LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
Category:	Parable of the Sower
Location:	north wall door, left panel [LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
History:	Window sold 5-6 Nov 2005 for $166750 at Red Baron's Antiques [AAW2005]
	Window sold 16 Jan 2022 for $42500 ($53125 with buyer's commission) at Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery [AOAG2022]

Item 3.164.2.3.b

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Dewey Memorial Window
Theme:	The Prophet [LPN1927]
	The Seer [DEWEY1932]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Melvil Dewey (10 Dec 1851 - 26 Dec 1931), originator of the Dewey Decimal System [DEWEY1932, FINDAGRAVE]
Donor:	two old Club members [LPN1927]
	an unnamed admirer [DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed ca. Jun 1927 [LPN1927]
Lancets:	1 [DEWEY1932]
Inscription:	They dipt into the future / Far as human eye could see / Saw the vision of the world / And all the wonder that will be / Alfred Tennyson [LPN1927, DEWEY1932]
Category:	Prophet
Location:	north wall door, right panel [LPN1927, DEWEY1932]

Item 3.164.2.3.c

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:
Description:	sky continuing the landscape of the windows in the doors [LPN1927, PHOTO]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1927]
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:	Installed ca. Jun 1927 [LPN1927]
Size:	60" high x 93" wide [WEB]
Inscription:
Category:	Landscape
Location:	north wall [PHOTO, DEWEY1932]
History:	Window for sale 22 Apr 2006, Kamelot Auctions, lot 50162054 [WEB]

Item 3.164.2.4

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Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Wood Memorial Window
Description:	landscape [NYS1927]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[NYS1927]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Katherine Emily Wood (5 Dec 1912 - 1925) [NYS1927, DEWEY1932, WEB]
Donor:	her father Willis Delano Wood [NYS1927, DEWEY1932, WEB]
	and also her mother, Anna Emily Matheson Wood [NYS1927, WEB]
Date:	Installed ca. Oct 1927 [NYS1927]
Lancets:	2 [DEWEY1932]
Inscription:
Category:	Landscape
Location:	chancel, left of altar, east wall [DEWEY1932]

Item 3.164.2.5

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Woelfkin Memorial Window
Theme:	Resurrection [LPN1928A]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[LPN1928A]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin (1859 - 6 Jan 1928) [INSCRIPTION, LPN1928A, DEWEY1932, WEB]
Donor:	a group of his friends [LPN1928A, DEWEY1932]
	in particular G.H. Warner [DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed ca. Mar 1928 [LPN1928A]
Lancets:	2 [PHOTO, LPN1928A, DEWEY1932]
Inscription:	"Until the day break, and / the shadows flee away." // In Memory of / Cornelius Woelfkin, D.D. LL.D. / 1859 - 1928 [PHOTO]
Category:	Resurrection with Christ
Location:	chancel, behind altar, east wall [LPN1928A, DEWEY1932]

Item 3.164.2.6

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

Status:	Removed [ADE1992]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Viot Memorial Window
Description:	landscape [LPN1928B]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:	Louis C. Tiffany N.Y. [AAAF2001]
Other documentation:	[LPN1928B]
Designer:
Memorial details:	Joseph Nicholas Viot (1874-1927) [LPN1928B, DEWEY1932]
Donor:	his wife [LPN1928B, DEWEY1932]
Date:	Installed ca. Aug 1928 [LPN1928B]
Size:	84" high x 43" wide [AAAF2001]
Lancets:	2 [PHOTO, DEWEY1932]
Inscription:
Category:	Landscape
Location:	chancel, right of altar, east wall [LPN1928B, DEWEY1932]

References

AAAF2001:	Antiques & Art Around Florida, Martin May (Winter / Spring 2001)
AAHN1999:	Adirondack Architectural Heritage Newsletter (Winter 1999, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 6)
AAW2005:	Antiques and the Arts Weekly (27 Dec 2005)
ADE1992:	Adirondack Daily Enterprise (5 Oct 1992, p. 1, 7)
AOAG2022:	Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery (16 Jan 2022)
DEWEY1932:	Melvil Dewey: Seer: Inspirer: Doer: 1851-1931, Grosvenor Dawe (1932, p. 243-244)
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
FINDAGRAVE:	Findagrave.com, for deducing biographical or genealogical information
INSCRIPTION:	Inscription on item
LPN1925A:	Lake Placid News (8 May 1925, p. 8)
LPN1925B:	Lake Placid News (14 Aug 1925, p. 11)
LPN1926:	Lake Placid News (16 Jul 1926, p. 14)
LPN1927:	Lake Placid News (10 Jun 1927, p. 10)
LPN1928A:	Lake Placid News (2 Mar 1928, p. 8)
LPN1928B:	Lake Placid News (24 Aug 1928, p. 7)
NYEP1926:	New York Evening Post (3 Jul 1926, Section 5, p. 5)
NYS1927:	New York Sun (8 Oct 1927, p. 28)
PHOTO:	Photo of item
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)
UOD1926:	Utica Observer-Dispatch (27 Jun 1926, p. 8)
WEB:	Some general webpage, e.g. for deducing biographical or genealogical information