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
