1932 December LCT's industrial arts library is sold by Percy A. Joseph to the New Apri/17 Tiffany Studios, 391 , files for bankruptcy York City Board of Education; the library will be housed at the School of Industrial Arts, 257 West 40th Street May 29 Tree ofLife window is unveiled in the large studio room of the fellows' area at 1938 March 14-19 Liquidation of Louis C. Tiffany Studios Corporation by Lester june LCT announces the formation of the Louis C. Tiffany Studios Dutt and Associates, Washington, D.C.; studio's contents auctioned prior to Corporation, 46 West 23rd Street, with himself as president and art director, demolition of the building to continue the activities of the bankrupt Tiffany Studios Ca. 1938 LCT donates his paintings at Laurelton Hall and the 72nd Street house to the Westminster Memorial Studios is formed by former employees of Tiffany Tiffany Foundation Studios at 148 West 23rd Street to finish outstanding stained- commis­ sions 1933 january 1J LCT, now eighty-four, dies of pneumonia at the 72nd Street 1942-45 house; he is buried with his family at Greenwood Cemetery in . His Laurelton Hall is used by the U.S. Navy Office of Scientific Research and estate is valued at $880,701 Development/Research Committee of the Council of National Defense for "secret war work," including camouflage testing january 29 LCT's will is filed for probate 1944 April Louis C. Tiffany Granite Quarries, Cohasset, Mass., is closed january 2S Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine transfers tide of the Tiffany chapel to the Tiffany Foundation july 1 Tiffany and Company closes LCT's jewelry department 1946 December 28 Tiffany Foundation executive committee requests the resigna­ july .31 Tiffany Foundation applies to the State Courts for tions of Stanley Lothrop, director of the foundation, and Sarah Hanley, permission to deviate from the founder's original deed of trust in order to sell assistant director Laurelton Hall and its contents. Property is later divided into parcels and sold by real estate agent Russel F. Sammis 1934 Tiffany Foundation is granted tax-exempt status September 24-28 Contents of Laurelton Hall are auctioned at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, with lesser objects sold through Coleman Galleries, 1935 New York, and private sales February George Kunz family donates two LCT paintings to the Tiffany Foundation picture gallery 1947 April.3 Charles Lewis Tiffany (LCT and Mary's son) dies june Comfort Lodge, LCT's Miami home, is sold for $2o,ooo to benefit the Tiffany Foundation. The foundation uses the proceeds to acquire work from May 1S Tiffany Foundation is again granting fellowships the Louis C. Tiffany Studios Corporation june 1J Tiffany Foundation officially moves to the National Academy of Art September Louis C. Tiffany Studios Corporation offers to sell to the Tiffany building, 1083 5th Avenue Foundation its LCT windows August Laurelton Hall and ten acres, including the chapel and the art gallery, September 2 Laurelton Hall is opened to the public with ticketed admission on are contracted for sale for use as a nursing home; the contract is signed as of Wednesdays and Saturdays for one month August 28, but a zoning variance for this use is denied by the village of Laurel Hollow and the sale falls through November Comfort Lodge is destroyed in a hurricane 1948 1936 May 1J Supreme Court of the County of Nassau in Mineola authorizes March Contents of Louis C. Tiffany Studios Corporation, 46 West 23rd Street, Tiffany Foundation trustees to sell foundation property are sold to auctioneer Percy A. Joseph for $65,000 (not including the corpora­ tion itself, which will continue to produce ecclesiastical art and memorials in 1949 glass and stone) january 9 Laurelton Hall is sold for $1o,ooo to Thomas Hilton, who uses it as a summer home during 1949-55 August 72nd Street house is demolished 1957 November 4 Remaining inventory of the Louis C. Tiffany Studios March 6 Laurelton Hall is destroyed by fire Corporation (LCT art objects and Favrile glass) is sold to Percy A. Joseph March 16 Comfort Tiffany Gilder requests Hugh F. McKean to rescue art at 1937 Laurelton Hall February 10 Louise Harriet Tiffany (LCT's sister) dies May 11 McKean and his wife, Jeannette Genius McKean, purchase Laurelton October 1 Seventeen-story apartment building designed by Rosario Candela Hall remains from salvagers and Mott B. Schmidt, 19 East 72nd Street, is completed on the site of the 72nd Street house 1958 Sarah Hanley dies

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