
Alice Barber Stephens was a pupil of Thomas Eakins and her husband was the cousin of Eakins's brother-in-law Frank Stephens, William Price's partner in the utopian community at Arden, Delaware. After a summer in the Guest House, they acquired an old Pennsylvania barn on Rose Valley Road and commissioned Price to adapt it to serve as a house and double studio. Though Cotswoldlike in character, the house is free from most of the historical flourishes of Price's earlier work, instead paralleling Charles Rennie