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1942
Jeannette Genius McKean founded it in 1942 and named it for her grandfather
The museum was founded by Jeannette Genius McKean in 1942 and dedicated to Chicago industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, her grandfather. Her husband, Hugh McKean, was its first director. It first stood on the campus of Rollins College.
Laurelton Hall
In 1957 the McKeans bought what was left of Tiffany's estate
In 1957 Hugh McKean learned from Tiffany's daughter that Laurelton Hall, Tiffany's estate, had burned to a ruin. The McKeans bought what remained, including parts of the 1893 chapel, leaded glass windows and the poppy loggia.
“Let's buy everything that is left and try to save it.”
Jeannette Genius McKean, at the ruins of Laurelton Hall
The chapel
The Tiffany Chapel of 1893 was reassembled and opened in April 1999
Tiffany created the chapel for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. It was reassembled and opened in April 1999 to the general public for the first time in more than 100 years. It is approximately 39 feet long and 23 feet wide.
39 feetapproximate length of the Tiffany Chapel
The holdings
Holdings range from leaded-glass windows down to glass buttons
The Tiffany collection is the centerpiece and includes examples in every medium he explored, from lamps and jewelry to mosaics and Favrile blown glass. The museum also has over 800 pieces of 19th-century American Art Pottery, including about 300 Rookwood pieces.
800or more pieces of 19th-century American Art Pottery
Day 2, midday
It comes after Park Avenue. Then Winter Park lakes.
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