| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Confidence: |
High |
| Memorial name: |
Colburn Memorial Window (Lester Memorial Window) |
| Theme: |
Cornelius and Angel [TIFF1910, DUNC1980] |
| Tiffany 1910: |
Page 29 |
| Duncan 1980: |
Page 205 |
| Tiffany 1897: |
Not listed |
| Signature: |
|
| Other documentation: |
[NRP1910] |
| Designer: |
|
| Memorial details: |
Nicholas Alfred Colburn (24 Aug 1848 - 26 Dec 1907) [NRP1910] |
| Donor: |
anonymous donor [NRP1910] |
| Date: |
Unveiled Easter Sunday, 27 Mar 1910 [NRP1910] |
| Size: |
78" high x 55" wide [NRP1910] |
| Inscription: |
Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God // In grateful memory of Nicholas Alfred Colburn, for many years a devoted member and faithful trustee of this church. Born August 24, 1848, died at sea, December 26, 1907 [NRP1910] |
| Category: |
Cornelius |
| Tiffany/Duncan comment: |
Tiffany 1910 calls this the Lester Memorial Window so the donor was possibly Henry Martyn Lester, who had previously donated the Huguenot window (ITEM:3.79.2.3) [TIFF1910, DUNC1980, DEDUCED] |
| Comment: |
Building destroyed by fire in 1926 [NRHP1979] |
| Status: |
Likely destroyed [DEDUCED] |
| Confidence: |
High |
| Memorial name: |
Huguenot Memorial Window |
| Description: |
ship under full sail, bearing the Huguenots to America [YS1889] |
| Tiffany 1910: |
Page 29 |
| Duncan 1980: |
Page 205 |
| Tiffany 1897: |
Page 19 |
| Signature: |
|
| Other documentation: |
[MKR1889, YS1889] |
| Designer: |
|
| Memorial details: |
Huguenot settlers of New Rochelle [MKR1889, YS1889] |
| Donor: |
Henry Martyn Lester [MKR1889, YS1889, FINDAGRAVE] |
| Date: |
Installed ca. Jan 1889 [MKR1889, YS1889] |
| Inscription: |
Erected to the memory of Huguenot settlers of this town and Founders of the Reformed Church of France in New Rochelle, of which this church is in direct succession, October 1688-1888 [MKR1889] |
| Category: |
Historic |
| Location: |
southeast side [MKR1889] |
| Comment: |
Building destroyed by fire in 1926 [NRHP1979] |
| DA1895: |
Mount Vernon Daily Argus (27 Jul 1895, p. 3) |
| DEDUCED: |
Deduced from other information |
| DUNC1980: |
Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980) |
| FINDAGRAVE: |
Findagrave.com, for deducing biographical or genealogical information |
| MKR1889: |
The Mount Kisco Recorder (25 Jan 1889, p. 5) |
| NRHP1979: |
National Register of Historic Places, Karen Morey Kennedy, with assistance by Mrs. Isabel Barker and Mr. Robert S. Stitt (1979, Section 7, p. 1) |
| NRP1910: |
New Rochelle Pioneer (2 Apr 1910, p. 6) |
| PTS1895: |
Princeton Theological Seminary, Class of 1890 (1895, Appendix, p. 3) |
| 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) |
| YS1889: |
The Yonkers Statesman (23 Jan 1889, p. 4) |