John LaFarge
John Frederick Lewis Joseph La Farge
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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John LaFarge stained glass studio | 1874 | 1910 |
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- Son: C Grant LaFarge
Architect - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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John LaFarge stained glass studio | 1874 | 1910 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1835/03/31 | Louise Josephine La Farge, wife of Jean Frederic La Farge, gives birth to a son, John Frederick Lewis Joseph La Farge, at 40 beach Street (lost) in New York City. | Born | |||||
1860/10/15 | Margaret Mason Perry and John La Farge are married in Newport by Father William O'Reilly at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. | Groom | St Mary's Church | Newport, RI | Marriage of Margaret Mason Perry and John La Farge | ||
1870/00/00 | Home of John La Farge and his wife Margaret Perry, grand-niece of Commodore Matthew Perry | Home | La Farge Perry House | Newport, RI | |||
1873/00/00 | Margaret La Farge buys a house on Sunnyside Place with her inheritance. | Home | Margaret Mason Perry House | Newport, RI | |||
1876/09/15 | The Building Committee hires John La Farge to paint and decorate the interior of the church for $8,000. Although the committee wished to leave the interior bare, Richardson persuaded them to engage La Farge. | Painter | Trinity Church, Boston | Boston | |||
1876/12/15 | Rev Charles T Brooks joins Jeanne-Emilie Baheux de Puysieux and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in holy matrimony in the parlor of the La Farge home with only La Farge, Margaret and their young daughter as witnesses. | Witness | Margaret Mason Perry House | Newport, RI | Marriage of Jeanne-Emilie Baheux de Puysieux and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | ||
1877/00/00 | While looking at a cheap jar made of molded brown glass, La Farge notices that light is refracted by the shape as well as the color the glass, and sees a way to create decorative glass windows unlike the ones made with traditional flat panes of glass. | Artisan | |||||
1877/01/31 | Capping off 5 months of effort, John LaFarge and several assistants work through the night to finish the murals and decorations at Trinity Church. | Painter | Trinity Church, Boston | Boston | |||
1880/00/00 | United Congregational church is decorated with stained glass windows and murals by John La Farge. Blues, greens, reds and gold predominate, and tapestried patterns run throughout. | Artisan | United Congregational Church | Newport, RI | |||
1880/02/00 | John LaFarge patents a techniques for making opalescent glass, the fusion of small bits of glass. | Inventor | |||||
1881/00/00 | The Battle Window, plated opalescent stained glass window, funded by the Class of 1860, installed in Annenberg Hall | Artisan | Memorial Hall, Harvard U | Cambridge, MA | |||
1883/00/00 | Christ Preaching (3 panel clerestory window with the brilliant turquoise background, west end) is installed at Trinity Church | Artisan | Trinity Church, Boston | Boston | |||
1884/00/00 | Stainglass windows 'St Paul Preaching' and 'The Annuciation' are installed over the Altar in St Paul's sacturary | Artisan | St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | |||
1885/00/00 | John La Farge produces an ambitious program of opalescent glass and interior decoration for the new church executed between 1885 and 1886. | Artisan | Trinity Episcopal Church | Buffalo, NY | |||
1887/00/00 | "The Annunciation", a stained glass window in an Italian Renaissance style, is completed by John La Farge. It is a memorial to William Ellery Sedgwick. | Artisan | St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge | Stockbridge | |||
1888/00/00 | The dining room is enlarged and a John LaFarge stained glass window is installed above the fireplace | Artisan | Weyerhaeuser House | Rock Island | |||
1889/00/00 | Four stained glass windows designed by John LaFarge are installed in Emmanuel Church | Artisan | Emmanuel Church | Manchester-by-the-Sea | |||
1894/00/00 | John LaFarge's "Infant Samuel" stained glass window is installed. Seventeen LaFarge windows will be installed by 1912. | Artisan | Judson Memorial Church, Campanile and Judson Hall | New York City | |||
1898/01/27 | Collier's Weekly begins serializing the first of twelve parts of "The Turn of the Screw". The title illustration by John La Farge depicts the governess with her arm around Miles. | Illustrator | The Turn of the Screw (book) | ||||
1902/03/15 | "Fortune and Her Wheel" stained-glass window by John LaFarge is featured in the lobby of the Frick Building. | Artisan | Frick Building and Annex | Pittsburgh | |||
1910/11/14 | After suffering a nervous breakdown, John La Farge passes away at Butler Hospital, Providence | Died | Butler Hospital | Providence, RI | |||
1917/00/00 | The Salmagundi Club buys the Hawley townhouse where they will install a stained glass window by former member John La Farge. | Artisan | Salmagundi Club | New York City |
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