The Morse Museum, 15th February 2017
The Morse Museum is an imposing edifice which stands on the main street in Winter Park. It was created by Jeannette McKean, granddaughter of a Chicago industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse. In 1957 Jeannette's husband Hugh learnt that Laurleton Hall, the estate of Louis Tiffany the glass artist had burnt down. Tiffany had created Laurelton Hall on Long Island and it was used for the study of art as well as being Tiffany's residence. Hugh himself had been a student there. Tiffany followed the sentiment of the Arts and Crafts movement established by William Morris, but because of his personal fortune managed to make a commercial success of it. Laurelton Hall was no ordinary mansion but had been designed by Tiffany as a work of art in itself. He designed the interior and the paintings he collected were also displayed there. After Tiffany's death in 1933 the family fortune reversed and most of the art and glass work was sold off before the fire in 1957, that gutted the build...