Updated:
July 20, 2007
here are over 100 stained glass windows throughout the Mission Inn. Some are simple. Others are massive, intricate pieces of art. Small windows with the Raincross symbol in silhouette or the Mission Inn escutcheon (house mark) can be found in several guest rooms. The most spectacular are the windows in the St. Francis Chapel made by the Louis Comfort Tiffany studios.
A common practice was to dedicate or memorialize a window to a loved one. In fact, one window at the Mission Inn appears to have been a sample memorial window. At the bottom are the words: “inscription.”
Another location within the hotel for displaying art is the Spanish Art Gallery. The room has great height and a canopied ceiling. Architect Myron Hunt designed the room, reminiscent of the salons of the seventeenth century Europe. Stained glass artist Jessie Van Brunt created four stained glass windows for the Mission Inn, three of which are in the Gallery. The room has great height and a canopied ceiling. Architect Myron Hunt designed the room, reminiscent of the salons of the seventeenth century Europe.
In addition to the boy juggler window, Van Brunt created windows dedicated to Alice Richardson (Frank Miller’s sister) and to Frank Miller’s daughter, Allis, and her husband, DeWitt Hutchings. The fourth window is in St. Joseph’s arcade, an area near the St. Francis Chapel. Van Brunt pictured Miller as St. Francis.
Van Brunt was one of several artists and writers who frequented the Mission Inn. A guest room in the Cloister Wing of the hotel (east side) is named for her. |
