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The living wing of the house and studio 
Homes of American Artists 
An Artist’s Home in Rose Valley 
By Ralph de Martin 
HERE is a very great and widespread in- having their separate painting rooms. The house as it 
terest in the dwelling places of artists, due in now stands was actually built and arranged for its present 
part, no doubt, to the popular impression owners by Messrs. Price and McLanahan, architects, of 
that these children of genius must know ex- Philadelphia; yet in fact the structure was, in its primitive 
actly how to build and furnish, but possibly form, an ancient stone barn, transformed, modified, and 
behind this there is the little understood, but made over into studios, while the house part is a wholly 
nevertheless notable, fact that of all our new addition built for its present use. 
contemporaries the artist is alone likely to achieve immortal- To transform an old house into a new one is very often 
ity, since the artist 
alone is likely to 
have his work 
handed down to the 
admiration of pos- 
terity. Meanwhile, 
however, the artist 
must live, and to live 
must have a place to 
live in; and, above 
all, is especially for- 
tunate if the house 
be an individual one, 
either completely in- 
dividual from its 
first upbuilding, or 
transformed and 
modified and given 
individual character 
by its occupant. 
The Stephens 
house in Rose Val- 
ley, owned and oc- 
cupied by Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles H. 
Stephens, is the 
home of two artists, 
both husband and 
wife being artists of 
wide fame. It is 
both a home and a 
studio, or rather two 
studios, both Mr. 
and Mrs. Stephens 
as difficult a prob- 
lem as the architect 
is called upon to 
handle; the diff- 
culty of such a task 
is very much height- 
ened when the in- 
itial structure is a 
barn, a building 
erected primarily 
for very many uses, 
but never under any 
circumstances as a 
living place for a 
twentieth century 
family. The old 
barn, however, 
formed an admir- 
able starting point 
for the present con- 
siderable house, 
since studio require- 
ments are very spe- 
Gale cad Pinn'e stor 
ample space and en- 
tailing difficult 
problems in lighting. 
In a measure, how- 
even, it formed a 
very natural begin- 
ning for the studio 
portion of the house, 
and has been so 
utterly transformed 
The pergola 
