Troy’s Tiffany Glass
Tom Carroll, former director of the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway will be our guest speaker. Tom will present a narrated program on Tiffany glass in and around Troy which was very popular in the early days. Louis Comfort Tiffany started out as a painter but became interested in glass making around 1875.
[private]He worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn and later opened his first glass factory in Corona, NY. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains. However, the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. There are several types of glass along with several techniques involved in the window manufacturing process. Tiffany’s inventiveness as both the producer of the materials as well as the designer of the windows was to become renowned. Come and learn more about this man and his beautiful creations. Join us on Tuesday, March 22 at 7 pm in the downstairs meeting room of the Town Hall on Route 351. All are welcome, the program is free and refreshments will be served.[/private]