Brown was asked if he wanted them before they were sledgehammered out.
He gladly paid $6,000 for the pair and hired workers to remove the windows from the stone.
He figured that their shape, size, and color could bring in buyers.
Opened in 1885 by Louis Comfort Tiffany, they are perhaps most widely known for their stained glassTiffany lamps.
However, the firm made a wide range of stained glass items, including vases and windows.
These particular windows were likely intended for an expansion of the church.
Detail of Bella apartment window by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, c. 1880 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Photo: Wmpearl viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
After discovering that they were Tiffany windows, Brown invested an additional $50,000 to have them restored.
How the Tiffany windows were sold off in the first place makes for another story.
