{"nrhp_refnum":"78000434","name":"Hawthorne Class Studio","other_names":["Morris Davidson School of Art"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off Miller Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Provincetown","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":42.05765973300004,"lon":-70.18237007599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A barn-like, shingled art class studio with a gambrel roof, built between 1900 and 1907 off Miller Hill Road in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a nearly four-acre property that also holds a moved 1½-story house.","why_significant":"The studio is tied to the noted artist Charles W. Hawthorne, who is recognized as the founder of Provincetown's art community, and it has been used continuously as an art school for about 70 years. It later housed classes taught by Hans Hofmann and then Morris Davidson, and it remains physically unaltered.","narrative":"Set on a hilly, sandy site of about four acres off Miller Hill Road in Provincetown, this shingled, barn-like studio was built between 1900 and 1907. It measures 50 by 80 feet, has a gambrel roof and a slight second-story overhang, and rests on cement block pilings, with its west end supported by cement pillars over a hill. A 1½-story house nearby was moved from Commercial Street in four pieces to lodge students. The studio is linked to painter Charles W. Hawthorne, who began teaching in his home nearby and moved his growing class into the barn. Hawthorne is recognized as the founder of Provincetown's art community and its leading figure until his death in 1930. From 1930 to 1945 Hans Hofmann taught here and lived in the house during summers. Morris Davidson acquired the property in 1945 and continued the school without changing the building or the character of the classes, giving it roughly seventy years of continuous use as an art school.","period_of_significance":"1900-1907","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as unaltered and still in use as a painting school; the house on the property was moved from Commercial Street to serve students.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.120312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7939/63793966/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/78000434.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_Class_Studio","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715524"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/hawthorne-class-studio-78000434/"}