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Star
Funded
by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star
Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the
residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority
pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting
American arts and letters.
Beginning
as a nicely proportioned…
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Veltin
Veltin
Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls
in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the
plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by
poet Edwin
Arlington Robinson during
most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously,
Thornton Wilder
put the
finishing…
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Watson
Built
in 1916 in
memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this
studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for
its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’
studio and recital hall for chamber music, the latter purpose was
soon found to be too disruptive to…
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Wood
Wood
Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was
completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden
Wood.
Like
Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping
pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995,
MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building
material and…
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Banks
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has
played host to an extraordinary list of writers. In all seasons,
Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field extending to the north…
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Irving Fine
Youngstown
Studio was given
to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH,
where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine
Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a
distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s.
The
simple interior of the studio…
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Edward MacDowell's Log Cabin
Edward
MacDowell’s one-room pine-log cabin was begun by Marian MacDowell,
who hoped to surprise her husband with the composer’s retreat.
MacDowell, however, happened upon the partially built structure and
supervised its completion. Ignoring a friend’s warning, he kept a
piano in the drafty structure, and it became the inspiration for the
studios built on the property…
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