{"nrhp_refnum":"97001680","name":"Wyeth, N.C., House and Studio","other_names":["See also: Chadds Ford Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Murphy Road","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chadds Ford Township","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.86516348550006,"lon":-75.57862855455159,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-12-09","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1997-12-09","areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of N.C. Wyeth's house, studio, barn, pump house and grounds on about 18 acres near the Brandywine Creek in Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in 1911 for the illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its association with the Golden Age of Illustration and with Wyeth's career as a leading American illustrator and painter. It also argues that the house, studio and landscape reflect the setting that shaped his work and his family's artistic tradition.","narrative":"Set on a rise above the Brandywine Creek floodplain in Chadds Ford, the property comprises a two-story brick house begun in 1911, a one-story studio built the same year, a barn from 1912 and a pump house from 1923, all on about eighteen acres of lawn, orchard and woodland. Newell Convers Wyeth, the illustrator, bought the land in 1911 and had the house designed by Wilmington architect William Draper Brinkle, with a rear addition in 1926. The buildings share features such as clapboard siding, overhanging eaves and all-header brick, which Wyeth specified. The studio is where most of his commissioned work and personal painting was produced for more than three decades. The nomination regards the property as significant for its link to the Golden Age of Illustration, for the landscape that appears in Wyeth's paintings, and for its role in a family of artists spanning three generations.","period_of_significance":"1911-1945","architect_builder":"William Draper Brinkle (architect and builder); Walter S. Brown and William Price, Jr. (later addition)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"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 17:11:29.936366-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97001680_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001680/c519605f3d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001680/c519605f3d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyeth_House.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wyeth_House.png"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000660","name":"Brandywine Battlefield","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/brandywine-battlefield-66000660/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994165","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._C._Wyeth_House_and_Studio","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4165239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/wyeth-n-c-house-and-studio-97001680/"}