Tiffany Census

American Red Cross Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia

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:	10.3.8
Rating:	1 star
Address:	430 17th Street NW
Location:	Washington, District of Columbia 20006, USA
Lat/Lng:	38.89488, -77.04017
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Tiffany 1893:	Not listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Completeness:	High
Building status:	Extant
Building date:	1915-1917 [AR1918, ARC1919]
Architect:	Breck Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston [AR1918, ARC1919]
Comment:	The windows were not dedicated in 1917 because of World War I [ES1917]
Also of interest:

Site Items

10.3.8.1.a:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window: St. Filomena and Mercy, Hope, Faith and Charity (1917) (Extant)
10.3.8.1.b:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window: Red Cross knight (1917) (Extant)
10.3.8.1.c:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window: Una (1917) (Extant)

Item 10.3.8.1.a

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window
Description:	St. Filomena and Mercy, Hope, Faith and Charity [RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ES1922A, ORG]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:	TIFFANY STUDIOS N.Y. 1917 [PHOTO]

Other documentation:	[ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919]
Designer:	Frederick Wilson [KOCH1966]
Memorial details:
Donor:	Women's Relief Corps of the North [ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ES1922A, ORG]
Date:	Window in place when building dedicated on 12 May 1917 [ES1917]
	Window dedicated 27 Apr 1922 [ES1922A]
Lancets:	1 [PHOTO]
Inscription:
Category:	War Memorial
Location:	Assembly Hall (Board of Governors Hall) [ES1917, RCM1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ORG]
Cost:	$10000 for all three (each organisation raised $5000) [RCM1918, AR1918, ES1922A]

Item 10.3.8.1.b

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window
Description:	Red Cross knight [RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ORG]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919]
Designer:	Frederick Wilson [KOCH1966]
Memorial details:
Donor:	Women's Relief Corps of the North and United Daughters of the Confederacy [ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ORG]
Date:	Window in place when building dedicated on 12 May 1917 [ES1917]
Lancets:	1 [PHOTO]
Inscription:
Category:	War Memorial
Location:	Assembly Hall (Board of Governors Hall) [ES1917, RCM1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ORG]
Cost:	$10000 for all three (each organisation raised $5000) [RCM1918, AR1918, ES1922A]

Item 10.3.8.1.c

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:	Heroic Women of the Civil War Memorial Window
Description:	Una (wife of the Red Cross knight in Edmund Spenser's "Fairie Queen") [RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, WH1922A, RTD1922, ORG]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919]
Designer:	Frederick Wilson [KOCH1966]
Memorial details:
Donor:	United Daughters of the Confederacy [ES1917, RCM1918, AR1918, ARC1919, AA1919, WT1922, WH1922A, WH1922B, RTD1922, ES1922B, ES1922C, ORG]
Date:	Window in place when building dedicated on 12 May 1917 [ES1917]
	Window dedicated 1 Nov 1922 [WT1922, WH1922A, WH1922B, RTD1922, ES1922B, ES1922C]
Lancets:	1 [PHOTO]
Inscription:
Category:	War Memorial
Location:	Assembly Hall (Board of Governors Hall) [ES1917, RCM1918, ARC1919, AA1919, ORG]
Cost:	$10000 for all three (each organisation raised $5000) [RCM1918, AR1918, ES1922A]

References

AA1919:	Art and Archaeology (Mar-Apr 1919, Vol. VIII, No. 2, p. 115-120)
AR1918:	The Architectural Record (Dec 1918, p. 558-560)
ARC1919:	National Headquarters, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C. (Mar 1919)
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
ES1917:	The Evening Star (7 Jun 1917, p. 17)
ES1922A:	The Evening Star (28 Apr 1922, p. 7)
ES1922B:	The Evening Star (31 Oct 1922, p. 25)
ES1922C:	The Evening Star (2 Nov 1922, p. 17)
KOCH1966:	Rebel in Glass, Robert Koch (1966, second edition, p. 111)
ORG:	Organization
PHOTO:	Photo of item
RCM1918:	The Red Cross Magazine (Mar 1918, p. 35)
RTD1922:	Richmond Times-Dispatch (2 Nov 1922, p. 1)
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)
WH1922A:	The Washington Herald (1 Nov 1922, p. 8)
WH1922B:	The Washington Herald (2 Nov 1922, p. 3)
WT1922:	Washington Times (31 Oct 1922, p. 8)