The following updates are based on information shared at the Chadds Ford Township January 28, 2026 Board of Supervisors Workshop Meeting, the Chadds Ford Township website, and correspondence from the Township. Updates to PF Website Chadds Ford Township updated the Painter’s Folly webpage in late January 2026 ahead of the January 28, 2026, Board of Supervisors Meeting. This is the first major update on the page since July 31, 2025. Updates include information related to recen

As of January 6, 2026, Chadds Ford Township Board of Supervisors has not taken action to appoint Painter’s Folly liaisons for 2026. Chadds Ford Township resident Ed Worteck previously served as Painter’s Folly liaison from January 2025 to January 2026. Worteck is a Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Goucher College with an expertise in photography and historic preservation documentation with projects associated with the Lancaster Preservation Trust, Franklin Marshal

Helen Murray Sipala was the longtime owner of Painter's Folly from 1974 to 2018. Helen was a close friend, model, and confidante to the American artist, Andrew Wyeth, and recorded her friendship with Wyeth in a diary, now published as a book. Members of the Painter's Folly Preservation Alliance hired historian Thomas Wood to record Helen's oral history. Wood interviewed Helen Sipala in her home over the course of three sessions. The recordings are held in perpetuity at the U

Below is a letter petition intended for the Chadds Ford Board of Supervisors. If you are compelled, please add your name to the formal petition at https://www.change.org/preservepaintersfolly Painter’s Folly is a c. 1856-1857 Italianate house located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Painter’s Folly is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is within the Chadds Ford Historic District and the Brandywine Battlefield Historic District. Painter’s Folly is nationally s