Boyhood home of artist Charles Ephraim Burchfield

867 East Fourth Street / Salem, Ohio
Phone: (330) 717-0092

Special Holiday events November and December
​(see below)
​Open for your visit May - October: Sundays 1 - 4 pm
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Other days or group tours by appointment
Call  330-717-0092  at least three days in advance.
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Your Generous Donation will help preserve the homestead for the future.

Coming soon for the holidays:
2023 ​Trains and Trees & Our First Annual Silent Night Art Auction!

​​Very Special Holiday Kickoff Event!
(One night only)
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All proceeds from the Silent Night Art Auction will benefit the Burchfield Homestead Society in our mission to preserve the homestead for the future.

2023 TREES & TRAINS Display OPENS with 
SILENT NIGHT ART AUCTION

The Burchfield Homestead Society begins its Trees and Trains Holiday Event with a Silent Night Art Auction from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 17, at the Homestead, 867 East Fourth Street, Salem, OH.

Several Local artists have very generously donated paintings and other works of art which will be displayed for bidding among the holiday trees.

Trees are decorated in themes from Charles Burchfield’s paintings.

Refreshments will be served Friday evening when a Christmas Gift Shoppe will also be available.
$5 bidding registration with RSVP by 11/14.
 ​Bidding registration at door $10.
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RSVP link here

2023 Holiday Calendar:

November 17th 5pm - 8pm
Our first annual Silent Night Art Auction.
Get more info and RSVP.

Trains and Trees
​November 18 and 19 – 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Get more info.

​Annual Holiday Tree Event 
November 26, December 2,9,16, and 23, 1-5 ​
​Holiday Christmas Tree showcase at the homestead.
​Trees decorated with inspiration from Burchfield paintings.

Considered to be one of America's greatest artists, Charles Ephraim
Burchfield (1893-1967) lived and painted in this Salem, Ohio house from the age of five to twenty-eight. 

Nearly half of his lifetime's output of art was completed here.
Burchfield loved Salem and this neighborhood. Many of his paintings are views from the windows of the Burchfield Homestead which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 

​Discover Salem's place in the history of Charles Ephraim Burchfield's life and art!

Do you know?
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​The Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York has the largest collection and on-line archive of Charles Burchfield's paintings and sketches. The scenes and subjects of many of them still exist in Salem.

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2023 EXHIBIT "in his own words"
                        AT BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER in BUFFALO

Salem Library Burchfield Resources

explore CHARLES BURCHFIELD'S SALEM (with maps and sites)

In April 1993 the city of Salem celebrated the life and art of world-renowned artist and son of the city Charles Ephraim Burchfield on what would have been his 100th birthday.
Yesteryears full souvenir issue published by The Salem News for that occasion (archived at the Salem Library) – 28 pages with articles and maps of the Salem sites which served as subjects for Burchfield’s artwork.

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"Today, you can stand inside Burchfield's boyhood home in Salem, look out a window at the unchanged neighborhood, and see the reality of what Burchfield saw in 1915. To see what his fertile imagination added to his views from the "eyes" of the house you must study the paintings of those window views - paintings embued with his affection for his mother, siblings, friends, and hometown." 

~ From The Eyes of Houses, by Dick Wootten, in North by Midwest,
​Paintings by Charles Burchfield, 1995
​Nanette V Maciejunes, Ed.

Closed for the season December 23 through April 2024 except by appointment*.

*Appointments for Special times & Group Reservations:
To make a reservation for a group visit, call 330-717-0092 at least three days in advance.  There is no charge, but we are happy to take donations.
Thank you for your support!
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Donations are welcome.

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PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION OF CASH OR VOLUNTEER TIME
TO HELP THE BURCHFIELD HOMESTEAD REMAIN A SALEM TREASURE

Visit the Homestead.

download Local Salem Map