Fenway Studios

Fenway Studios is an artist building with 46 separate studio spaces in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. The workspaces feature north-facing windows, high ceilings, and expansive glass surfaces that supply natural light for artistic work.

After a destructive fire at the nearby Harcourt Studios in 1904, local leaders commissioned architects Parker and Thomas to design this new facility for displaced artists. The completed building became a center for artistic creation and continues to shape Boston's cultural landscape.

The building embodies an artistic tradition that has drawn generations of painters and sculptors working between traditional techniques and modern approaches. Visitors can sense how the spaces are steeped in creative work and how artists use the light and room to develop their work.

The spaces operate under a limited-equity ownership model that keeps rents affordable for artists while preserving the building's historical features. Visitors should know that this active artist community is private, so it is important to give working artists space and respect.

The building is the oldest purpose-built artist studio structure in continuous operation since its completion in 1905. This rare continuity makes it a living record of more than 100 years of artistic life within the same rooms.