MacDowell Colony’s Non-Profit Status Challenged

“At stake is a $50,000 tax bill — a portion of the colony’s total tax bill on its 450-acre compound — and MacDowell’s status as a tax-exempt organization. That status, which the colony has had since it was founded in 1907 as a community of artists, has long been affirmed by the town’s selectmen. The town recently changed its mind on that score, however.”