| In the process of moving from the site at 97 Orchard Street, members of the Universalist Society made sure to preserve two stained glass windows that had been donated to the congregation by Barzillai Ransom. Ransom had acquired the windows while in Italy, and they were said to date from the 16th or 17th century. A few years later the Society of New York would donate the stained glass windows to the Universalist Society of Stamford, Connecticut.
Recently, researchers at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum discovered that these beautiful windows were still very much in existence… |
