The Rollins Museum of Art receives stained-glass window gift
A.F. Mueller, Adoration of the Magi, 15' x 5', stained-glass window. Courtesy of The Rollins Museum of Art.
WINTER PARK, FLA.—
The Rollins Museum of Art announced a gift from The First United Methodist Church Winter Park, a historic stained-glass window made in the late 19th century, now formally recognized in the collection as A.F. Mueller’s Adoration of the Magi as of February 2026.
Measuring 15' x 5' and depicting The Adoration of the Magi, the window was fabricated by American manufacturer, the Milwaukee-based Mueller Mirror and Art Glass Works, and exemplifies the taste for late 19th-century European stained-glass design, particularly devotional images in American houses of worship.
Originally installed in the of Reeves Memorial Methodist Church in Orlando (NW corner of Oregon Street and North Ferncreek Ave), which closed in 2018, the window was later transferred to First United Methodist Church in Winter Park, just two blocks north of the Museum’s new facility currently under construction.
First United Methodist lent the window to the Museum in 2021 with intentions to restore it for eventual display in the new facility; however, the Church has decided to fully gift the window, adding not only an important piece of local history to the Museum’s collection, but one that broadens its existing stained-glass holdings, including a contemporaneous English stained-glass panel (ca. 1870-80) originally made for a domestic interior in Hartford, CT, and a later Tiffany window (1929) depicting Christ the Redeemer from Greeley Presbyterian Church in St. Louis.
“The Rollins Museum of Art is deeply grateful for the donation of this window—an example of mastery in the medium of stained glass and a work of art beloved by the Orlando community for more than a century,” said the Rollins Museum of Art’s Bruce A. Beal Executive Director Leslie Anderson.
Adoration of the Magi will be displayed as part of the inaugural exhibition at the new facility in 2028, featuring additional works from the permanent collection. The museums plans to integrating it into future programming, as well as in partnerships with colleagues at the nearby The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art and beyond.
