Branching Out

ID: 871 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
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Branching Out

After the decline in church construction in the 1960s, L. L. Sams and Sons shifted its business model in order to reach a wider customer base. Named the Cleon Window, this work designed by L. L. Sams for Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library combines the image of the Baylor columns at Independence with themes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry.

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By Amanda Sawyer
Though L. L. Sams and Sons became one of the nation’s largest and most popular church furniture suppliers in the twentieth century, it developed from humble beginnings. Rev. L. L. Sams, a traveling Baptist preacher, desired to build a church for his…