| 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. |
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St Mary's Church |
Newport, RI |
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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 |
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La Farge Perry House |
Newport, RI |
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| 1873/00/00 |
Margaret La Farge buys a house on Sunnyside Place with her inheritance. |
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Margaret Mason Perry House |
Newport, RI |
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| 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. |
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Trinity Church, Boston |
Boston |
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| 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. |
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Margaret Mason Perry House |
Newport, RI |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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Trinity Church, Boston |
Boston |
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| 1878/00/00 |
John La Farge creates his first successful opalescent glass window. Entitled "Morning Glories," this six panel window is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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William Watts Sherman House |
Newport, RI |
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| 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. |
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United Congregational Church |
Newport, RI |
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| 1880/02/00 |
John LaFarge patents a techniques for making opalescent glass, the fusion of small bits of glass. |
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| 1881/00/00 |
The Battle Window, plated opalescent stained glass window, funded by the Class of 1860, installed in Annenberg Hall |
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Memorial Hall, Harvard U |
Cambridge, MA |
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| 1883/00/00 |
Christ Preaching (3 panel clerestory window with the brilliant turquoise background, west end) is installed at Trinity Church |
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Trinity Church, Boston |
Boston |
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| 1884/00/00 |
Stainglass windows 'St Paul Preaching' and 'The Annuciation' are installed over the Altar in St Paul's sacturary |
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St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge |
Stockbridge |
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| 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. |
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Trinity Episcopal Church |
Buffalo, NY |
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| 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. |
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St Paul's Episcopal Church, Stockbridge |
Stockbridge |
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| 1888/00/00 |
The dining room is enlarged and a John LaFarge stained glass window is installed above the fireplace |
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Weyerhaeuser House |
Rock Island |
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| 1889/00/00 |
Four stained glass windows designed by John LaFarge are installed in Emmanuel Church |
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Emmanuel Church |
Manchester-by-the-Sea |
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| 1894/00/00 |
John LaFarge's "Infant Samuel" stained glass window is installed. Seventeen LaFarge windows will be installed by 1912. |
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Judson Memorial Church, Campanile and Judson Hall |
New York City |
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| 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) |
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| 1902/03/15 |
"Fortune and Her Wheel" stained-glass window by John LaFarge is featured in the lobby of the Frick Building. |
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Frick Building and Annex |
Pittsburgh |
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| 1910/11/14 |
After suffering a nervous breakdown, John La Farge passes away at Butler Hospital, Providence |
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Butler Hospital |
Providence, RI |
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| 1917/00/00 |
Salmagundi Club buys the Hawley townhouse. They installed a stained glass window by former member, John La Farge. |
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Salmagundi Club |
New York City |
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