The campus at 41 Mt. Desert Street grew between 1876 and 1901, built largely on gifts from Bar Harbor's Gilded Age summer colony — the same moneyed crowd who turned this island town into a rival of Newport. That origin shows. The main church, its attached Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, and the surrounding historic buildings carry the weight of that era. What draws visitors now is the stained glass: the church holds one of the largest collections of Louis Comfort Tiffany windows in New England. The sanctuary is open daily.
Quick facts
- ·The church's interior contains a Tiffany Studios memorial window titled 'Ogden Memorial Window: The Last Supper' (1888), donated by David B. Ogden in memory of his brother Cadwalader Evans Ogden.
- ·The church's interior contains a Tiffany Studios memorial window titled 'Washington Memorial Window: A Guiding Angel' (1888), donated by William Herbert Washington in memory of his mother Susan Thompson Fulton Washington.
- ·The church's interior contains a Tiffany Studios memorial window titled 'Joy Memorial Window: Salve Regina' (1908), designed by Frederick Wilson, donated by Louise Todd Joy (Mrs. Christian Hauge) in memory of her son Frederic Joy.
- ·A memorial tablet honoring Gardiner Sherman (marble inlaid with mosaic of blue and gold), dated 1908, was donated by his (second) wife Mary Moore Ogden Sherman.
- ·St. Saviour's original church building was constructed in 1877-78 at a cost of approximately $7,000, designed by New York architect Charles C. Haight.
- ·St. Saviour's underwent a major expansion in 1885-86, designed by the Boston architectural firm Rotch and Tilden, which reshaped the building into a cross-shaped plan using the original structure for transepts and adding a larger nave, semi-circular apse, and crossing tower.
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