Illustrator Howard Pyle painted in the larger of these two studios and taught his students in the smaller. The larger studio, the one Pyle used himself, was built in 1883 of mainly brick and capped with a Tudor Revival half-timbered gable. It sits set back eighty feet from the street beneath a steeply pitched roof; one gable forms the main facade, framing the entry porch and a triple casement. The smaller studio, the space Pyle used for teaching, was added in 1900 in a similar style.
Pyle’s love of English history is written into the architecture: the 1883 studio has been called Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, even "Shavian Manorial" because of its likeness to works by English architect Richard Norman Shaw. After Pyle’s death in 1911 the studios passed to Stanley Arthurs until 1950, then to Ellen duPont Wheelwright until 1964. The Studio Group acquired the buildings in 1964 and continues to use them as art studios today. In 1978 the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Picture this densely populated neighborhood stretching toward Brandywine Park and the Delaware Avenue Historic District.