Built 1905 Opened 1905 Added to NRHP 20 April 1979 | NRHP Reference # 79000636 Area 2,000 m² Architect Captain E. L. Rice Jr. | |
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Location 1616 Rodney St., Wilmington, Delaware Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine Zoo, Winterthur Museum - Garden a, Bellevue State Park, Brandywine Creek | ||
The Frank E. Schoonover Studios in Wilmington, Delaware comprise a historic building that was used by the students of illustrator Howard Pyle, including the original tenants Frank Schoonover, N.C. Wyeth, Harvey Dunn, and Clifford Ashley. Philanthropist and art collector Samuel Bancroft paid for the building which was designed by the prominent local architect Capt. E.L. Rice, Jr. and built in 1905 in a simplified Queen Anne or Shavian Manorial style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Schoonover remained in his studio, Number 1, until the end of his career, but the other original tenants moved out within ten years. Other artists moved in but Schoonover eventually became the sole owner of the property. After his death in 1972, a group of artists restored the building.