Projects

St. John’s Episcopal Church
679 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

St. John’s Episcopal Church was severely damaged by fire, and many of the windows required complete re-creation from marginal photo documentation available.  The Chancel and Right Transept windows were very large, multi-lancet “Munich Style” windows by an English studio (most likely Clayton & Bell).  The various thickness, density, color, and extremely detailed painting of the glass required an artist with superb re-creation skills, as well as extensive knowledge of an older extremely intricate, painting style.  Also, these windows required removal and reinstallation from a primitive stone-set frame.  St. John’s Episcopal Church is one of the oldest and most historic Episcopal churches in the State of Connecticut.

St. John’s Episcopal Church
513 Twelfth Street
Franklin, PA 16323

St. John’s is unique in the sense that all of its windows are by L.C. Tiffany and date from 1908 through 1918.  Only a handful of churches in the United States can make a similar claim.  Of the thirty windows in the nave, restorations to date were all under the direction of Kirk Weaver during the past five years.  The most recent project included the remaining six nave windows that were completed and installed in December 1999.  The Restoration Program to date has included: removal and disassembly; conservation of all glass; cleaning and restoration of deteriorated painted flesh; installation of new solid bronze ventilators to replace existing steel types; and installation of a vented protective glazing system.

St. Andrew’s Parish
20 Catlin Street
Meriden, CT 06450

St. Andrew’s Parish houses a superb collection of Tiffany Windows.  Most notable of the five Tiffanys we restored is the “Good Samaritan” Window, which has four very ornate and intricate main plates, with an additional fifth and sixth added to the front and back.  The extremely ornate etching and foiling required special attention to produce a superbly restored piece.

Center Church
60 Gold Street
Hartford, CT 06450

Center Church is one of the oldest churches in the State of Connecticut, and houses one of the finest and most historically significant collections of Tiffany windows.  Among the better known windows in this collection are the Thomas Hooker Window, which depicts Thomas Hooker preaching to the General Court, the John Caldwell Window, which is a fabulous “Angels of Resurrection”, the Horace Wells Window, “In Memory of the Discoverer of Anesthesia”, and the Cogswell Window, “In Memory of Dr. Cogswell”, who was instrumental in establishing the American School for the Deaf.  All of these windows are heavily plated opal windows, requiring the utmost skill in their restoration and releading.

Christ Church Episcopal
69 Fair Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326

Christ Church Episcopal is a wonderfully historic church built by James Fenimore Cooper.  It possesses a typically eclectic collection of the finest windows, as seen in many of the older Episcopal Churches.  Christ Church Episcopal contains three of Tiffany’s finest windows, as well as several Heaton, Butler, and Bayne windows from the turn of the century, along with several superb examples of early American Stained Glass Studio windows.  The primary challenge in this project was reversing extremely invasive and damaging previous repairs and failed attempts at restoration.  With a great deal of hard work and patience, these windows were returned to their superb original condition.  This was a difficult and involved restoration project of which we are very proud.

St. George’s Episcopal Church
105 Grand Street
Newburgh, NY 12551

The project at St. George’s Episcopal Church involved the restoration of three very large single-lancet Tiffany windows.  The particular challenge in this project was conservation of breakage.  Much of the ornate art glass (drapery, chevron, high-strike ring mottle) was badly broken as a result of wood frame deterioration, which allowed extensive movement throughout the window.  Once all of the glass conservation was successfully completed and releading was performed, these exceptionally large examples of Tiffanies were returned to their original splendor.

Second Congregational Church
50 Park Street
Attleboro, MA 02703

The project at Second Congregational Church was quite historic and involved complete removal and restoration by releading of an extremely rare Mary Tillinghast window.  This window is composed of three tall lancets alternating with two small lancets, surrounded by numerous small decorative panels and tracery, to form one large lancet measuring 15 ft. wide by 22 ft. high.  The window is comprised of various colors and textures of opalescent glass, including chevron/herringbone and heavy drapery textures.  In most cases, it is constructed utilizing three plates, yet in some areas, there are as many as five.  The restoration involved extreme documentation, as well as extremely fine detail work.  This was a remarkably large and intricate plated window restoration.

Calvary United Presbyterian Church
695 School Street
Indiana, PA 15701

Calvary United Presbyterian Church contains American opalescent pictorial and decorative windows by the Pittsburgh firm of Rudy Brothers, that date to the turn of the century.  In addition to the Rudy windows, a large American opalescent pictorial style window by the obscure artist Robert L. Dodge, thought to have once been a student or employee of Tiffany, is featured in the nave.  We recently restored a triple lancet with tracery window by Rudy Brothers located in the balcony.  Restoration was completed in December 1998 and included removal, disassembly, and conservation of considerable broken glass.  The most recent project was the restoration of the historic Dodge window which was completed in July 2000.

Graystone Presbyterian Church
640 Church Street
Indiana, PA 15701

Graystone Presbyterian Church has a superb collection of painted grisaille windows from the 1920’s.  To date, one window in the nave, ten multiple-lancet clerestory, and twenty-eight classroom casement windows have been removed and restored.  This restoration project required the full gamut of processes geared toward restoring and preserving painted windows.  Subsequent phases are being planned for the remaining 86 windows.