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March 3, 2012 - April 29, 2012
The distinguished history of St. Peter’s Church, begins in 1704 when England’s Queen Ann founded a “Chapel of the Onondagas” to bring missionaries to North America and granted land in Albany to build an Anglican Church. This first church, a gambrel-roofed, masonry structure, was built in 1715-1717 on State Street near Lodge Street. In 1802 Albany architect Phillip Hooker designed a new Federal Style church at the same location, which Richard Upjohn of New York City, well-known for his Gothic Revival Style replaced in 1860. His son, Richard M. Upjohn added the impressive bell tower in 1876. The richly decorated interiors include work by leading artists designers including windows designed by the English artist Edward C. Burne-Jones and fabricated by the William Morris Company of London in 1880; the chancel windows made by Clayton and Bell of London in 1885; and the rose window over the State Street entrance made by the Tiffany Company in 1892. The exhibition, drawn from the collections of St. Peter’s Church and the Albany Institute, include the rarely seen 1712 Queen Anne Communion Service, land grants, portraits, furniture, drawings, prints, maps, and photographs arranged to highlight the history of the church and its role in the historical events that shaped Albany and the upper Hudson Valley.
Great,
Strange, and Rarely Seen:
Objects
from the Vault
April 7 - August 26, 2012
The exhibition Great, Strange, and Rarely Seen places on view the little known but truly magnificent collections from the Albany Institute. Stunning Chinese lacquer, intricately carved Japanese netsuke, and eighteenth-century English porcelain statuettes reveal the cosmopolitan breadth of the Institute's holdings. While other collections like patent models and human hair jewelry demonstrate the ingenious and quirky sides of human creativity. The exhibition also includes panoramic photographs, unusual clocks, a chronology of mirrors, women's bonnets and hats, British and American fortepianos, and riches from the Library.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS: COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
May 5 - September 23, 2012
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