MacKaye, Percy

Title

MacKaye, Percy

Cornish Dates

1904 to 1956

Cornish Residence(s)

Woodchuck Hole
Snuff Box (1904-1905)
S.A. Tracy Homestead (1906)
Fuller House (1906-1907)
The Wayside (1907-1912)
Hilltop (1911)

Invited By

Norman Hapgood

Birth

16 Mar 1875
New York, New York

Death

31 Aug 1956
Cornish, New Hampshire

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Spouse

Marion Morse
Married 8 Oct 1898

Relations

Marion Morse MacKaye (wife)
Robin MacKaye (son)
Arvia MacKaye (daughter)
Christy MacKaye (daughter)
Benton MacKaye (brother)
Hazel MacKaye (sister)

Profession

Poet
Dramatist

Location Studied

Harvard
University of Leipzig

Affiliations

Craigie School for Boys (professor)
Boston University (professor)

Masque of Ours

Hermes

Sanctuary Bird Masque

Alwyn (poet)
Author
Organizer

Other Events

Pageant of Meriden, advisory committee

Sources

Image: Bain News Service, Percy MacKaye, 1916, Wikimedia Commons

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 259-266.

Ege, Arvia MacKaye, and Marion MacKaye, The Power of the Impossible: The Life Story of Percy and Marion MacKaye (Falmouth ME: Kennebec River Press, 1992).

Percy MacKaye - Wikipedia

Citation

“MacKaye, Percy,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed October 9, 2026, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/501.