Cape Cod School of Art
The Cape Cod School of Art, also known as Hawthorne School of Art, was the first outdoor school of figure painting in America; it was started by Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1898. The Hawthorne Class Studio building off Miller Hill Road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The -story studio building is a large gambrel-roofed barn-like building, measuring about 50 x, set on concrete pillars and clad in wooden shingles.
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Its symmetrically arranged front has a center entry with narrow flanking windows, paired windows in bays on either side of the entrance, and single windows at the second level under the gable. The studio was constructed c. 1907 to house the teaching studio of artist Charles Hawthorne. Hawthorne began giving art classes in Provincetown in 1899, and was an acknowledged leader of the artistic community there at the time of his death in 1930.
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• Name — Hawthorne Class Studio • Nrhp Type — nrhp • Location — Provincetown, Massachusetts • Built — 1900 • Added — July 21, 1978 • Ref Num — 78000434
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