Boyhood home of artist Charles Ephraim Burchfield

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

​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.
FREE CONCERT!
Join us this Saturday while we celebrate joining Bloomberg Connects, an international cultural app, with a concert Saturday, September 14/ 1 to 4 p.m.
 Explore the Burchfield Homestead with our free mobile guide
on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app!
 
Featuring:
  • Welcome from Sara Baer, the president of the Burchfield Homestead Society.
  • A twenty minute self-guided tour.
  • Introduction to Burchfield's Garden by Anissa DiLeo, Art Education Director.
Access our guide with
the Bloomberg Connects App.  
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. You can visit them with our Burchfield's Footsteps Walking Tour.

Past Exhibits online at Burchfield Penney Art Center

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

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The Burchfield Homestead Society
​867 E. Fourth Street / P.O. Box 317 / ​Salem, Ohio  44460 / Phone: (330) 717-0092

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