Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago
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The Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Illinois, is an imposing Gothic Revival church, that was designed in 1874 by noted New York architect James Renwick. The current American and English Arts and Craft interior was designed in 1900 by Howard Van Doren Shaw and Frederick Clay Bartlett, after much of the church was destroyed by fire.
The interior contains the largest collection of windows, in their original location, designed by the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany. There are also two Edward Burne-Jones windows in the church's narthex in addition to many other rare and important murals, textiles and lighting fixtures. Pre-Raphaelite murals designed by Bartlett, who studied at the Royal Academy in Munich and Whistler's Paris studio, adorn the walls.
The Pullmans and Mary Todd Lincoln were among the many notable Chicago citizens to attend this church .
