Charles Demuth House & Garden Museum

The Messencope house is a wonderful example of Lancaster's early Federal-style construction. The house later became the primary residence of the artist Charles Demuth (1883-1935), who lived there with his family from 1889 until his death. As a leader of the American Modernist movement, Demuth is best known as a pioneer of the Precisionist style and a master watercolorist. The Demuth Museum, founded in 1981, maintains the Demuth home and garden as a museum, with a permanent collection of over 27 Demuth works, as well as an extensive archive and library.  The Demuth Tobacco Shop, the oldest operating shop of its kind in America, and other historic buildings surround the museum; all are open to the public.  

Regional Events

Kykuit Closes for the Season, 11/02/08
Tarrytown, New York
Kykuit, the estate that served as home to four generations of Rockefellers, closes to visitors for the season on Sunday, November 2. The estate includes a six-story stone house, expansive terraced gardens, art galleries, outdoor sculpture, commanding Hudson River views, and much more.

Regional Sites

101 Spring Street, New York, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios

2 Columbus Circle, Lancaster, New York, 11 Most Endangered

African Meeting House, Nantucket , Massachusetts, National Trust Historic Sites

African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School, Boston, Massachusetts, National Trust Historic Sites

Alice Austen House, Staten Island, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios

Annapolis, MD, Lancaster, Maryland, Dozen Distinctive Destinations

Bath, ME, Lancaster, Maine, Dozen Distinctive Destinations

Bethlehem Steel Plant, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered

Bronx River Parkway, Lancaster, New York, 11 Most Endangered

Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront, Lancaster, New York, 11 Most Endangered

Burlington, VT, Lancaster, Vermont, Dozen Distinctive Destinations

Camp Security, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 11 Most Endangered

Cape Cod, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 11 Most Endangered

Cedar Grove, The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York, Historic Artist Homes & Studios

Chatham, MA, Lancaster, Massachusetts, Dozen Distinctive Destinations

Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Historic Artist Homes & Studios, National Trust Historic Sites

CIGNA Campus, Lancaster, Connecticut, 11 Most Endangered

Cliveden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Community Revitalization, National Trust Historic Sites

Cooperstown, NY, Lancaster, New York, Dozen Distinctive Destinations

Cranston Street Armory, Lancaster, Rhode Island, 11 Most Endangered

 

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