Exploring Historical Bethlehem With the Artist In the summer of 2004 I painted three historical sites. Having recently moved to Bethlehem I was charmed enough by its history and beauty to branch out from my first love, still life painting. The Miller's House and Garden in the Colonial Industrial Quarter first caught my attention when I learned that the Bethlehem Garden Club tended the garden as volunteers. The Colonial Industrial Quarter, which also encompasses the 1761 Tannery, the 1762 Waterworks and the 1769 Luckenbach Mill all sit bucolically in a picturesque setting along the Monocacy Creek. I've heard the Miller's Garden is a favorite place for brides to have their weddings captured by photographers. While wandering behind the Moravian Book Shop I happened upon the old Nain House on Heckewelder Place. This house, stark in its simplicity, was built in 1758. It is the only structure still in existence along the Delaware and Lehigh National Corridor that was both built by and lived in by Native Americans. This house, part of the Moravian Museum, was once located in the Moravian Mission village called Nain. The house was moved from West Bethlehem. Of course, if you live in Bethlehem you often pass the Old Depot, now a restaurant on Lehigh Street. This outstanding structure is a "picture perfect" Mansard Victorian with a roof which is both beautiful and difficult to paint. Standing on the bridge to Sand Island I got the worst sunburn trying to capture that roof. Having finished these three 12 x 16 oils, wanting but not wanting to sell them, I happened upon the idea of reproducing them from photographs. That is what you are looking at today. I hope people enjoy these small reproductions as much as I enjoyed painting, photographing and framing them. Ned Bowne The Miller’s House and Garden The Nain House The Old Depot