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Sprague-Smith studio in the spring time. The small stone building is surrounded by trees starting to leaf-out and the ground is covered in the beginnings of lush ferns and grass.

Sprague-Smith

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…
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Star Studio in spring time. The small studio is tucked into a forest. The leaves are beginning to come out and bright sun shines down, filtering through the trees.

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 studio in spring time. The stone studio is small and tucked into a lush forest that has just gotten its leaves. Filtered light falls onto the building

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 Studio in early fall. The grey building, featuring six while columns along its porch, has a stone staircase leading to a small courtyard. The studio is nestled into a dense forest.

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 with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…
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Wood studio in Spring time. Filtered light pokes through the trees and falls on the brown cabin. Bits of green begin to cover the ground.

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 Studio in springtime surrounded by a lush lawn and a tall pine forest. The building, which features several gables, is set in a field. It is a bright, sunny day.

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 working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…
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David Carpenter

Discipline Music Composition
Region Philadelphia, PA
At MacDowell 2010

Henry Brown

Discipline Visual Art – painting
Region New York, NY
At MacDowell 2007

Sheri Fink

Discipline Literature – nonfiction
Region New York, NY
At MacDowell 2011, 2013, 2022
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