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The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912. [4] The main building was expanded twice, in the 1920s and 1930s. [5] Other buildings were added in the 1990s and 2006.
The Edward D. Libbey House is a historic house museum at 2008 Scottwood Avenue in Toledo, Ohio. Built in 1895, it was the home of Edward Libbey (1854-1925), a businessman who revolutionized the glass making industry in the United States. Libbey and his wife, Florence Scott Libbey would later establish the Toledo Museum of Art in 1901. [3]
Tower on the Maumee (formerly known as Fiberglas Tower) is a skyscraper at 200 North Saint Clair Street in Toledo, Ohio. [3] Constructed in 1969, the 400 feet (120 m) building is an example of the international style of architecture. [4] In 2012, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Riverview". [5]
Libbey-Owens-Ford Company (LOF) was a producer of flat glass for the automotive and building products industries both for original equipment manufacturers and for replacement use. The company's headquarters and main factories were located in Toledo, Ohio , with large float glass plants in Rossford , Ohio , Laurinburg , North Carolina , Ottawa ...
This is when uranium glass reached the height of its popularity in the United States between 1958 and 1978, with more than 4 million pieces of decorative uranium produced, according to Oak Ridge ...
When no grants for a hot glass studio had materialized by the fall of 1961, Otto Wittmann, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, suggested that Littleton consider giving a glassblowing seminar at the museum, and offered the use of a storage shed on the museum grounds. The first of two workshops was held in this makeshift facility from March 23 ...
1987/1988 Thirty Years of New Glass 1957–1987, The Corning Museum of Glass, Toledo Museum of Art; 1988 Artistes verriers de Tchécoslovaquie, Galerie Transparence, Brussels, 43. Biennale di Venezia; 1989/1990 Verres de Bohême: 1400–1989 chefs-d'œuvre des musées de Tchécoslovaquie, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris; 1990 Cesty k ...
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