The Thomas Eakins House was a home of Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator...

 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. It is a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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The house was built about 1854 by the father of Thomas Eakins. It is a four-story townhouse

Townhouse

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 with three stories built of brick and the fourth of wood. Thomas Eakins inherited the house in 1899. He lived there until his death in 1916.

The Mural Arts Program, a Philadelphia-based art program that creates outdoor murals, is currently based in the Thomas Eakins house.

External links

• Thomas Eakins House at the Historic American Buildings Survey
  Historic American Buildings Survey
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• Mural Arts Program