Tiffany Census

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

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:	13.1.18
Rating:	1 star
Other name(s):	Chicago Public Library
Address:	78 E. Washington St
Location:	Chicago, Illinois 60601, USA
Lat/Lng:	41.88347, -87.62494
Tiffany 1910:	Page 53
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Tiffany 1893:	Not listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1910 also lists "painting and decoration in reading and reference room" [TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
Completeness:	High
Building status:	Extant
Building date:	1897 [CDT1897]
Architect:	Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge [CDT1895, NYEP1896, CDT1897]
Also of interest:	A stained glass dome by Healy and Millet [WIKI]

Site Items

13.1.18.1:	mosaic and decorations (1897) (Extant)
13.1.18.2:	glass dome (1897) (Extant)

Item 13.1.18.1

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:
Description:	mosaic and decorations [TIFF1897, TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
	dome and frieze mosaics, stairway inlaid with glass mosaic [TIFFM1896]
Tiffany 1910:	Page 53
Duncan 1980:	Page 210
Tiffany 1897:	Page 33
Other Tiffany documentation:	Tiffany Mosaic 1896 shows the detail of two sections of mosaic [TIFFM1896]
Signature:
Other documentation:	[CDT1895, NYS1896, NYEP1896, CDT1897, NYT1897, CHU1897]
Designer:	Charles Allerton Coolidge [TGM2017]
	color scheme by Jacob Adolphus Holzer [CDT1895, NYS1896, NYEP1896, CDT1897, TIFF1897, TGM2017]
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:	1897 [CDT1897, NYT1897, CHU1897]
Inscription:
Location:	Washington Street entrance and delivery room [TIFF1910, DUNC1980, TIFFM1896]
Employees:	Joseph Evan Mackay was the representative for Tiffany in Chicago at the time of the commissioning of the work in 1895 [CDT1895]
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1897 (p. 89) quotes the 27 Jan 1896 New York Sun article about the library [TIFF1897, NYS1896]

Item 13.1.18.2

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:
Description:	glass dome [ORG]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[ORG]
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:	1897 [ORG]
Size:	38 foot diameter [ORG]
Inscription:
Location:	Preston Bradley Hall [ORG]

References

CDT1895:	Chicago Daily Tribune (4 Oct 1895, p. 3)
CDT1897:	Chicago Daily Tribune (11 Sep 1897, p. 9)
CHU1897:	The Churchman (6 Mar 1897, p. 392)
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
NYEP1896:	New York Evening Post (4 Mar 1896, p. 13)
NYS1896:	New York Sun (27 Jan 1896, p. 4)
NYT1897:	New York Times (27 Feb 1897, Saturday Review of Books and Arts, p. 5)
ORG:	Organization
PHOTO:	Photo of item
TGM2017:	Tiffany's Glass Mosaics, Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott (mosaic list compiled by Morgan T. Albahary) (2017, p. 230)
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)
TIFFM1896:	Glass Mosaic, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (1896)
WIKI:	Wikipedia