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Jeweled Tiffany Window Returns to SSecond Presbyterian Church of Chicago
The renowned, 133-year-old Jeweled window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, will be reinstalled at 2nd Presbyterian Church (1936 S. Michigan Ave.) after 14 months of conservation work by acclaimed artisans in a $750,000 effort. This project’s investment was funded by more than 200 individual donors and family foundations through a three-year campaign led by Friends of Historic Second Church. Friends is a non-profit organization separate from the church founded in 2006 to restore, preserve and share the art and architecture of Historic Second Church.

Tiffany’s Jeweled window is one of nine in the church designed by the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The dazzling polychrome window contains thousands of pieces of glass and stands more than 16 feet high and is 8½ feet wide. It is composed of more than 12,000 pieces of glass, with more than 1,000 glass jewels capturing daylight with the brilliance of a rainbow.