The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Artwork in April of 1999. To encompass the addition of the chapel, the museum underwent an growth that additional additional galleries and a larger museum store. The Morse Museum now consists of the most complete assortment of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany anyplace. It was at the World's Columbian Exposition (also recognized as The Chicago World's Fair) that Louis Comfort Tiffany with his glass inlaid chapel, acquired a track record as a premiere glassmaker. While on display at the Exposition, it was been mentioned that the radience of the chapel created reverential awe amongst those who viewed it. The chapel gained many medals at the Exposition, such as one for imaginative adaptation of the electrification of its imposing chandelier. Following the Exposition, the chapel remained dismantled in New York until 1898, when a rich lady, Mrs. Celia Whipple Wallace bought the chapel for The Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine which was below building in tiffany and co outlet
New York City. The chapel remained at St. John the Divine for about 10 many years. In 1916, the church was abandoned and in need of repair, at which point, Tiffany removed the chapel from St. John, restored it and set up it in a separate building on his estate. In 1957, a tragic fire destroyed much of Tiffany's estate. The chapel which was contained in a seperate developing was not burned, but did drop into disrepair and was threatened with oblivion for a 2nd time. In 1957, Hugh and Jeannette McKean, director and founder tiffany jewelry outlet
of the Morse, frequented the hearth ravaged Tiffany estate, Laurelton Corridor on Lengthy Island and acquired architectural elements and leaded glass home windows for the Morse Museum. Two years later on they obtained the stays of the Chapel inside and in the years that adopted acquired all of its furnishings to maintain the chapel in a solitary assortment. The McKeans had been devoted to the chapel preservation throughout a time period when there was a lack of interest in Tiffany and understood its historical importance as a function of artwork that had enjoyed tiffany outlet
worldwide acclaim and then suffered neglect and abandonment. Until 1997, many of the chapel components had remained in packing crates. That year the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation endorsed the expansion project that made the final resurrection of the Tiffany Chapel feasible.