Wyeth, N.C., House and Studio

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.