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Mansfield
The
Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the
Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen
Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club.
The
small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally
fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a
garden, and a stone pathway…
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Monday Music
Given
to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday
Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by
glaciers thousands of years ago.
A
small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after
damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without
the dormer. The interior…
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Nef
Nef
Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated
by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn
Steffanson Nef
in 1992.
Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an
annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds
for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…
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New Hampshire
New
Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in
1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed
maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow
Victor
Candell underwrote
the…
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New Jersey
The
yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping
site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and
built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s
porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the
ground slopes to the west.
Like
Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…
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Phi Beta
Funded
by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of
music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The
small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing
combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate
roofing.
Inside
is…
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Schelling
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the
organization was established and the first artists arrived for
residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed
in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral
leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward
MacDowell…
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Eastman
Thanks
to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise
Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy
efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was
simply converted for…
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Sorosis
Sorosis
Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small,
masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also
designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927).
At
the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade
offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…
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