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Gilded Age

The growing wealth of the post Civil War era lead to demand for showy new housing – including social gathering spots like Newport and Lenox. Local Lenox farmers were only to happy to sell average for these showy seasonal homes — somewhat humorously called “cottages.” Other Lenox residents of the late 19th and early 20th century built or worked in the cottages or created town shops and services to support their gilded age visitors.

101 Yokun Ave., Henry Braem House – 1929

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2-story Tudor Revival style house is constructed with a masonry first floor and wood frame second story; cladding…

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September 11, 2014
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111 Yokun Ave., Richard C. Greenleaf House – c.1870

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2.5-story, wood-framed house with wood siding and corner boards is an excellent example of the Stick Style of…

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September 11, 2014
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124 Yokun Ave., Homestead Carriage House – 1884

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This small 1-story, wood-frame building was converted from a carriage house to a dwelling, year unknown. Since it has…

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September 11, 2014
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45 West St., William Ellery Sedgewick House – 1855

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This stone edifice is designed in the style of an English Manor, but with eclectic architectural elements. The house…

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September 11, 2014
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151 Walker St., David Lydig House – 1887

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This expansive 2-story Colonial Revival house exhibits the symmetrically organized 3-bay front facade with center entrance characteristic of the…

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September 11, 2014
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399 Under Mountain Rd., William Slater House – 1901

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 2-story, 5-bay, stone and wood framed house built in the Tudor Revival or English Cottage style….

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September 11, 2014
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317 Under Mountain Road, George Baty Blake House – c. 1870

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2-story, 3-bay, wood frame house has a front gable roof with pediment and has a Greek Revival style….

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September 11, 2014
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169 Under Mountain Rd., John Parsons House – c.1875

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The property contains a complex of farm buildings, almost all of which exhibit the architectural characteristics of the Arts…

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September 11, 2014
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119 Under Mountain Rd., Daniel C. Belden House – c.1875

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 2-story Federal period building of brick construction (modified common bond) with a 3-bay front facade and…

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September 11, 2014
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40 Plunkett St., Edward Spencer Carriage House – 1885

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From Forms Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 3-story, 3-bay, wood frame, house exhibits the Tudor Revival style of architecture, popular in the early 20th century….

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September 11, 2014
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95 Old Stockbridge Rd., Alfred Devaus House – c.1810

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2-story wood-framed Federal period house has received additions and been remodeled such that the eclectic Queen Anne category…

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September 11, 2014
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30 Kemble St., Frank Sturgis House – c.1880

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This rambling, 2-story, wood-framed house evolved over quite a number of years and is categorized as Colonial Revival. It…

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September 11, 2014
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15 Cliffwood St., Francis Farley House – c.1850

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a two-story, three bay, wood frame house designed in a Picturesque style—transitional between Gothic Revival and Italianate….

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September 10, 2014
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16 Cliffwood St., Dr. Bernard McKay House – c.1885

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This two-story, wood-framed house displays the classic architectural features of the Queen Anne style with its asymmetrical organization, multiple…

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September 10, 2014
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22 Cliffwood St., Newton Sharp House – c.1900

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This wood-framed, Queen Anne-style house has two stories and three front bays. It has a hipped roof and brick…

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September 10, 2014
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25 Cliffwood St., Edward Livingston Estate – 1889

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This building exhibits the Renaissance Revival style but with an eclectic mix of details—Roman to Colonial Revival. It is…

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September 10, 2014
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30 Cliffwood St., Crosby House – c.1880

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2-story, 3-bay, wood-framed house was designed in the Italianate style. However, many of its original architectural features have…

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September 10, 2014
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33 Cliffwood St., Michael O’Brien House – c.1850

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a two-story, three-bay wood-framed house that appears to have been renovated about 40 years after its construction…

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September 10, 2014
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34 Cliffwood St., Frank Gilmore House – c.1895

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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is an intact wood-framed, 2-story house in the Italianate style. The front gable roof has asphalt shingles (a minimal alteration), eave returns, and scroll sawn double brackets…

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September 10, 2014
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35 Cliffwood St., Mrs. A. Root House – c.1875

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 2-story, 2-bay-wide and 4-bay-deep Classical Revival-style house of wood frame construction. It has a front gable…

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September 10, 2014
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39 Cliffwood St., Mr. James S. Smith – c.1885

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This wood-framed house is two stories high, two bays wide, but with a 3-story pedimented tower angled out 45-degrees…

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September 10, 2014
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36 Cliffwood St., Churchill Satterlee House – c.1880

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The style of this house is Italianate. It features a front gable roof (from which the brackets have probably…

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September 10, 2014
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44 Cliffwood St., Joseph Clifford House – c.1880

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The design of this house combines features of the Gothic Revival and Queen Anne styles. It is wood framed…

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September 10, 2014
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49 Cliffwood st., George Flosom House – 1884, 1926

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This house was designed as a modern interpretation of the English Cottage style that became exceedingly popular in the…

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September 10, 2014
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89 Cliffwood St., William Bacon House-1886

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 2-story, 5-bay, center entrance, wood-framed house designed in the Colonial Revival style. It has a hipped…

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September 10, 2014
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50 Cliffwood St., Catherine McDevitt House – c.1873

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ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: The style of this house is undetermined, and can simply be referred to as Vernacular Gothic (built in the Gothic Revival period). It is wood framed, two stories…

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September 10, 2014
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35 Greenwood St., Newton Wilbur House – c.1860

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This house was originally oriented to the south-southwest and numbered 62 Cliffwood Street. This early front facade clearly expresses…

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September 10, 2014
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5 Greenwood St., Hartman Kuhn House – 1870

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Society ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Tudor Revival style building has two stories, a wood shakes shingle roof and is intact. It has arched…

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September 10, 2014
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142 Main, Thomas Post House – c.1870

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Gothic Revival style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been altered. It has a…

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September 9, 2014
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135 Main St., Eliza Williams House – c.1861

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Colonial Revival style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been minimally altered. There is…

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September 9, 2014
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136 Main, Congregational Church Parsonage – c.1895

By lenoxhistoryGilded Age, Lenox VillageNo Comments

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:  This is a fine example of the Queen Anne style, and displays the eclectic decorative elements characteristic of the style. The cut shingles and half-timbering provide surface interest,…

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September 9, 2014
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134 Main St., St. Ann’s Rectory -c.1880

By lenoxhistoryGilded Age, Lenox VillageNo Comments

From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Queen Anne style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been minimally altered. It has…

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132 Main St. St. Ann’s Catholic Church – 1911

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From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Norman Gothic Revival style building has one plus stories, a slate roof and is intact. It has a…

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September 9, 2014
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