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Marian MacDowell is seated outside her home, Hillcrest, with notable Fellows (from left) Paul Nordoff, Thorton Wilder, Nikolai Lopatnikoff, and Margaret Widdemer.

Edward and Marian MacDowell.

Marian MacDowell looks out into the forest from the porch of Edward’s log cabin. The cabin she had built for her husband is opened to visitors on Medal Day every August.

Edward MacDowell by Louis Fabian Bachrach.

The sun offers dramatic highlights to Edward MacDowell’s music room in Hillcrest.
(David Macy photo)

Marian MacDowell purchased an abandoned farm, Hillcrest, about a mile from the Peterborough train station in 1896.
(R.D. Carley photo)

A Fellow takes a break outside the James Baldwin Library on a cool summer night as a fire acts as a beacon for artists.
(John W. Hession photo)

A Fellow works at a James Baldwin Library computer station in the bright, comfortable interior of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed addition.
(John W. Hession photo)

James Baldwin Library is framed by trees in the fading light of an early autumn evening.
(Ngoc Minh Ngo photo)

Asters bloom in the landscape on the south side of MacDowell’s James Baldwin Library.
(Ngoc Minh Ngo photo)

A late-spring view of Edward MacDowell’s log cabin.
(Jonathan Gourlay photo)

Forest surrounds the log cabin Marian MacDowell had constructed for her husband in 1899. She delivered a lunch to Edward when he retreated to the cabin to compose on his piano.
(Jonathan Gourlay photo)

Marian MacDowell poses for a photo outside her husband’s log cabin on the path that leads down the hill toward Hillcrest.

The Eaves is likely the oldest building on the Colony grounds. The Tenney Farm home, purchased along with the farm in 1912, has been renovated as a dormitory building for Fellows.

The public gathers for 2016’s Medal Day honoring novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.
(Dan Millbauer photo)

Edward MacDowell Medalist Toni Morrison tells the 2016 Medal Day crowd how she became a writer.
(Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

MacDowell Chairman and author Michael Chabon greets the Medal Day 2016 crowd who have gathered to honor Toni Morrison.
(Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

MacDowell Fellows Maude Mitchell, Lee Breuer, and Basil Twist share a laugh during a mild day in the winter of 2018.
(Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

Fellows often say that the breakfasts and dinners experienced in common are among the most valuable aspects of a MacDowell residency.
(Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

Composer Leonard Bernstein was in residence at MacDowell three times, in 1962, 1970, and 1972, and worked on his Mass here.
(Bernice B. Perry photo)

Painter Benny Andrews was in residence at MacDowell four times, in 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1978.
(Bernice B. Perry photo)

Novelist Michael Chabon during a break in his writing day in Adams Studio. He wrote parts of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Moonglow during MacDowell residencies.
(Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

Author Alice Walker came to MacDowell in 1967 and 1974 to work on her first and second novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian.
(Bernice B. Perry photo)

Author James Baldwin (who was at MacDowell three times) is seen second from left in this group shot of Fellows from 1954.
(Bernice B. Perry photo)

Fellows having dinner on the first day of summer in 2017.
(Dan Millbauer photo)