{"nrhp_refnum":"77001188","name":"Oakley, Violet, Studio","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"627 St. George's Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.05239209200005,"lon":-75.20525753299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Violet Oakley Studio is a stucco-over-stone former barn on Cresheim Creek in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, originally part of a farmstead with a barn built around 1815. It was rebuilt in 1902-03 as an artists' studio and residence by the architects Frank Miles Day and Charles Z. Klauder.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the studio is significant as the working studio of painter Violet Oakley (1874-1961), who was noted for historical subjects and state Capitol murals in Harrisburg. It also ties the building to the women artists who worked there together, and to the early 20th-century Philadelphia firm of Day and Klauder.","narrative":"Cresheim Creek farmstead barn in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, built around 1815, was rebuilt in 1902-03 by the architects Frank Miles Day and Charles Z. Klauder as a studio for the painter Violet Oakley. The main studio is a room about 50 by 50 feet and 24 feet high, carried on three massive columns, and the building has a stucco-over-stone exterior with ivy cover. Oakley and three other women artists, Henrietta Cozens, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith, were invited to Chestnut Hill in 1905 by developer George Woodward, and the studio was called COGS. Oakley, a former student of Howard Pyle, is regarded as a notable early twentieth-century painter whose commissions included frieze work in the Governor's Reception Room and frescoes in the Senate Chamber and Supreme Court Room of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. The building is significant for its association with her career and with that group of artists.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Frank Miles Day and Charles Z. Klauder (architects)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.072553-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001188.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001188/969615c63b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001188/969615c63b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakley_Studio.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakley_Studio.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997428","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139767563"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/oakley-violet-studio-77001188/"}