Tiffany Census

Bronx Community College, Gould Memorial Library, Bronx, New York City, 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:	1.1.66
Rating:	0 stars
Other name(s):	University Heights, New York University
Address:	Sedgwick Avenue
Location:	Bronx, New York City, New York 10468, USA
Lat/Lng:	40.85876, -73.91387
Tiffany 1910:	Page 11
Duncan 1980:	Page 202
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Tiffany 1893:	Not listed
Tiffany 1886:	Not listed
Tiffany/Duncan comment:	Tiffany 1910 places the building in Manhattan [TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
Completeness:	Medium
Building status:	Extant
Building date:	1900 [ORG]
Architect:	Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White [ORG]
Comment:	Building damaged by fire started by Molotov Cocktail in 1969 [ORG]
Also of interest:

Site Items

1.1.66.1:	Memorial Window: Veritas (Unknown)
1.1.66.2:	Justice, Goodness and Power (1901) (Destroyed)
1.1.66.3:	ornamental skylights (Destroyed)
1.1.66.4:	ornamental windows (Extant)
1.1.66.5:	Truth (Unknown)
1.1.66.6:	dome mosaic, with 150 foot long quotation from Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1900) (Extant)
1.1.66.7:	ornamental windows (Extant)

Item 1.1.66.1

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

Status:	Unknown
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:	Memorial Window
Theme:	Veritas [TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
Tiffany 1910:	Page 11
Duncan 1980:	Page 202
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Category:	Truth
Same as item:	Possibly 1.1.66.2 or 1.1.66.5

Item 1.1.66.2

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

Status:	Destroyed [ORG]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:
Theme:	Justice, Goodness and Power [NYT1901, NYEP1901, NYTR1901, VOGUE1901]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[NYT1901, NYEP1901, NYTR1901, VOGUE1901]
Designer:	Frederick Wilson [NYT1901, NYEP1901, NYTR1901, VOGUE1901]
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:	Exhibited Feb 1901 [NYT1901, NYEP1901, NYTR1901, VOGUE1901]
Lancets:	3 [PHOTO]
Inscription:	ΤΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΟΤΗΤΑ ΠΑΡΕΧΕΣΘΕ (Give us that which is just and equal, Colossians 4.1) // ΕΡΓΑΖΩΜΕΘΑ ΤΟ ΑΓΑΘΟΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΠΑΝΤΑΣ (Let us do good unto all men, Galatians 6.10) // ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ ΚΡΑΤΑΙΟΥΣΘΕ (Quit you like men, be strong, First Corinthians 16.13) // ΤΟΙΣ ΔΟΞΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΙΜΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΦ ΘΑR ΣΙΑΝ ΖΗΤ ΟVΣΙ (To those seeking glory and honour and immortality) [NYTR1901, DL2014]
Category:	Justice; Goodness; Power; Truth
Comment:	Window badly damaged by fire started by Molotov Cocktail in 1969, not known what happened with remnants [ORG]
Same as item:	Possibly 1.1.66.1

Item 1.1.66.3

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

Status:	Destroyed [ORG]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:
Description:	ornamental skylights [TIFF1910, DUNC1980]
Tiffany 1910:	Page 11
Duncan 1980:	Page 202
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Comment:	Skylight destroyed by fire started by Molotov Cocktail in 1969 [ORG]

Item 1.1.66.4

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

Status:	Extant [ORG, WEB]
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:
Description:	ornamental windows [PHOTO]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[WEB]
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Category:	Ornamental

Item 1.1.66.5

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

Status:	Unknown
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:
Theme:	Truth [TIFF1913]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Other Tiffany documentation:	Tiffany 1913 shows a Truth mosaic, said to be in the New York University library, but this might be a mistake (there is such a mosaic in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH, SITE:32.8.2) [TIFF1913, DEDUCED]
Signature:
Other documentation:
Designer:	Frederick Wilson [TIFF1913]
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Category:	Truth
Same as item:	Possibly 1.1.66.1

Item 1.1.66.6

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dome mosaic, with 150 foot long quotation from Milton's

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	High
Memorial name:
Description:	dome mosaic, with 150 foot long quotation from Milton's "Paradise Lost" [EAGLE1900]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[EAGLE1900]
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:	Installed ca. Apr 1900 [EAGLE1900]
Inscription:	AND CHIEFLY THOU O SPIRIT WHO DOST PREFER BEFORE ALL TEMPLES THE UPRIGHT HEART AND PURE INTRUST ME FOR THOU KNOWEST WHAT IN ME IS DARK ILLUMINE WHAT IS LOW RAISE AND SUPPORT [EAGLE1900, PHOTO, DEDUCED]

Item 1.1.66.7

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

Status:	Extant [PHOTO]
Confidence:	Medium
Memorial name:
Description:	ornamental windows [PHOTO]
Tiffany 1910:	Not listed
Duncan 1980:	Not listed
Tiffany 1897:	Not listed
Signature:
Other documentation:	[ORG, GKK2023, SLOAN2023]
Designer:
Memorial details:
Donor:
Date:
Inscription:
Category:	Ornamental
Location:	mezzanine [GKK2023]
Cost:	$91 each [SLOAN2023]

References

DEDUCED:	Deduced from other information
DL2014:	Prof. Doug Lee, University of Nottingham, personal correspondence (3 Feb 2014)
DUNC1980:	Tiffany Windows, Alastair Duncan (1980)
EAGLE1900:	Brooklyn Daily Eagle (15 Apr 1900, p. 29)
GKK2023:	Grace Kennings-Kwiatkowska, personal communication (28 May 2023)
NYEP1901:	New York Evening Post (16 Feb 1901)
NYT1901:	New York Times (16 Feb 1901, p. 5)
NYTR1901:	New York Daily Tribune (18 Feb 1901, p. 5)
ORG:	Organization
PHOTO:	Photo of item
SLOAN2023:	Julie Sloan, private communication (30 May 2023)
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)
TIFF1913:	Memorials in Glass and Stone, Tiffany Studios (1913)
VOGUE1901:	Vogue (21 Feb 1901, p. v)
WEB:	Some general webpage, e.g. for deducing biographical or genealogical information