Savidge Library Complex, The MacDowell Colony Peterborough, N.H.

摘要

In 1907, composer Edward MacDowcll and his pianist wife Marian transformed their rural retreat into a pioneering artists' colony. The luminaries who have worked in this bucolic setting over the years have included Willa Cather, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and James Baldwin. The MacDowells built 32 cottage-studios where the colony's fellows are to spend the day alone (and now without phone or Internet). A lunch basket is left at the door. In the evening, they gather for dinner and for public presentations in the Savidge Library. Dating from 1928, this rustic, one-room structure has remained a symbolic center, yet fell short of the colony's technical and environmental requirements.