Laurelton Hall

Laurelton Hall

Laurelton Hall was the home of noted artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, located in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. The 84-room mansion on 600 acres was completed in 1905, and housed many of Tiffany's most notable works, as well as serving as a work of art in and of itself. Laurelton Hall served as home for a school for artists run by Tiffany and his Foundation beginning in 1918. The Laurelton Hall grounds also eventually contained a separate building which housed the chapel originally made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition and numerous Tiffany windows, and a separate art gallery building. Laurelton Hall eventually fell into disrepair in the years after Tiffany's death, was sold by the Foundation in 1949, and burned in 1957.The estate cost about $2,000,000 to construct and landscape and was sold for $10,000.The majority of windows and other surviving architectural pieces were salvaged by Hugh McKean and Jeannette Genius McKean of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art and shipped to Winter Park, Florida after the fire. A major retrospective of Laurelton Hall opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in November, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.morsemuseum.org/home.htm Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida]
* [http://hometown.aol.com/obhistory/freejas.htm Tiffany history from the Oyster Bay Historical Society]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/press_room/full_release.asp?prid={2A41E484-0E5C-481E-B09C-C411D7A57F5E} Press Release on Metropolitan 2006-07 exhibition about Laurelton Hall]
* [http://louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org/ The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation]


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