Human activity including migrations, individual people, families and the institutions they formed in Lenox. Geography, historic sites and homes in Lenox.
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This undetermined style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been altered. It is a wood frame building with small dentils along molded cornice; hipped roof; 3-bays facing Housatonic St. façade at 2nd floor and a rear wall chimney on North side.
This square, two story building has a hipped-roof with square cupola, and is similar in plan to early New England meeting houses. Store fronts and additions were built on in the nineteenth century, and most of the original detailing has been removed or obscured, but the original building is still recognizable from the description in the Tucker manuscript:
“It was of wood, constructed for the courts only. The entrance was from the west, through double doors around which was some carving, and over it a fanlight window. Their (sic) were lobbies on either side of the door, 15 feet in length and 8 feet in width, for jury rooms. The ceiling of the courtroom was arched, and it comprised what is now both stories of the building… In each of the windows there were 24 lights of glass, 10 x 12. The specifications called for a cupola with a spire and vane.”
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Built in 1791, this building originally stood just west of the present Town Hall. This was the first County Courthouse, built several years after the county seat was moved from Great Barrington to Lenox in 1784. When the new County Courthouse was built in 1815 (now the Lenox Library) this building became the Town Hall and Post Office, and remained in that capacity throughout the 19th century. In 1901 the present Town Hall was built, and this structure was moved two years later to its current location by Thomas Post. George Therner purchased it shortly thereafter for use as a business block and apartments.
The property was purchased by Fares A. Khoury on April 5, 1972 and then by Jean Kelly Troiano on October 31, 2007.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
1905 and 1911 Sanborn Maps
Lenox, Massachusetts Shire Town. David Wood, 1969. P. 118
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been altered. It has brick construction laid up in Flemish bond and a front gable roof with eave returns. There is a gabled entrance canopy with large scroll sawn support brackets and pendants in Italianate style (early addition). There is an intact wood front door and large brick front and rear wall chimneys. It has an oval vent at attic level and limestone window lintels. There is a recessed right side ell with cross-gable roof and with a 2nd entry. The foundation is stone, there are 12 over 12 windows and authentic wood blinds on the second floor windows.
This is one of the few brick vernacular houses in Lenox, and one of two to survive from before 1850. It is predominantly a Federal style house, with 12/12 window sash, spalyed (sic) stone lintels and other characteristic features of this style, but the gable-front form of the building is a hallmark of the Greek Revival style, just emerging in the 1820’s. It is possible that this house was influenced by the Classical Revival Second County Courthouse of 1815, which used the temple-front form. This house would have been among the most substantial and fashionable in Lenox in the first three decades of the 19th century, and reflects the prominent position the Washburn family held.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This was the Washburn homestead, probably build by Jacob Washburn, who married the daughter of Samuel Northrup, an early settler in 1786. Jacob was a prosperous farmer with a large family and it seems likely that he built the house after establishing himself in Lenox. He died at age 62 in 1828, but his wife and children survived him and continued to prosper. His children and grand-children became some of the largest property owners in Lenox. The house remained in the Washburn family through the nineteenth century. Mrs. Thomas Morse was the last Washburn to own it.
Charles T. Schulze has been the owner since November 22, 1983.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
1893 & 1898 Sanborn Maps
Gazetteer of Berkshire County. Hamilton Child, 1885
History of Berkshire County, Mass. Joseph E. A. Smith, 1885
Lenox Assessor’s database 2011
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been altered. It has brick construction laid up in Flemish bond and a front gable roof with eave returns. There is a gabled entrance canopy with large scroll sawn support brackets and pendants in Italianate style (early addition). There is an intact wood front door and large brick front and rear wall chimneys. It has an oval vent at attic level and limestone window lintels. There is a recessed right side ell with cross-gable roof and with a 2nd entry. The foundation is stone, there are 12 over 12 windows and authentic wood blinds on the second floor windows.
This is one of the few brick vernacular houses in Lenox, and one of two to survive from before 1850. It is predominantly a Federal style house, with 12/12 window sash, spalyed (sic) stone lintels and other characteristic features of this style, but the gable-front form of the building is a hallmark of the Greek Revival style, just emerging in the 1820’s. It is possible that this house was influenced by the Classical Revival Second County Courthouse of 1815, which used the temple-front form. This house would have been among the most substantial and fashionable in Lenox in the first three decades of the 19th century, and reflects the prominent position the Washburn family held.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This was the Washburn homestead, probably build by Jacob Washburn, who married the daughter of Samuel Northrup, an early settler in 1786. Jacob was a prosperous farmer with a large family and it seems likely that he built the house after establishing himself in Lenox. He died at age 62 in 1828, but his wife and children survived him and continued to prosper. His children and grand-children became some of the largest property owners in Lenox. The house remained in the Washburn family through the nineteenth century. Mrs. Thomas Morse was the last Washburn to own it.
Charles T. Schulze has been the owner since November 22, 1983.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
1893 & 1898 Sanborn Maps
Gazetteer of Berkshire County. Hamilton Child, 1885
History of Berkshire County, Mass. Joseph E. A. Smith, 1885
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been minimally altered. There is a five-bay center entrance. It is wood frame and has a hipped roof. There is a brick center chimney and brick side wall chimney on the right side. It has wood clapboard siding; fluted pilasters at corners and a flanking one-story flat-roofed front entry porch with fluted Doric columns and a frieze with metopes and triglyphs. There is a door surround with a fanlight and fluted pilasters. There is a one-story porch off the left side of the house with lattice walls, Roman-arched openings and a stone foundation. There are 2-over-2 windows, authentic window blinds; a two-story rear ell and a two-story, three-bay-wide addition off the right rear corner with hipped roof. There is a brick rear wall chimney, a separate front entrance with a hipped canopy. LANDSCAPE: shrub arbor at entrance to front walkway; lattice screen fence in front of recessed right wing/ell.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
The original owners of this house were James and Maria Robbins. Mrs. Robbins’ maiden name was Egleston, and she was no doubt related to the locally prominent Egleston family whose members included Revolutionary War hero Major Azariah Egleston. The house was sold in 1850 to Ammi Robbins, who retained ownership until 1866. During this period the house was said to be a stop on the underground railroad. The house then passed on to John S. Schanck and Maria Robbins Schanck. In 1902 it passed out of the Robbins family when it was sold to Lydia E. Flint, who subsequently sold it to Louisa Ludlow in 1906. The house was known as the Ludlow Cottage for many years, and remained in the Ludlow family, passing on to Louisa Ludlow’s daughter, Mrs. John L.B. Brooke. In 2001, the house was transferred to her daughter Cornelia Gilder.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Old Form B
Town of Lenox Assessor’s Report
Lenox: Massachusetts Shire Town, David Wood, 1969, p. 196
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and is intact. It has a five-bay center entrance; wood frame; hipped roof; and an octagonal cupola with a spire atop a tall square base. It has wood clapboard siding with a dentil band at the cornice. It has very light paneled corner boards, Palladian window on the second floor. The front façade is centered above the front entry with brackets below the sill and a dentiled cornice. The door surround has an entablature having metopes and triglyphs, and a gable above with modillions, fluted pilasters and 2/3rds-length 10-pane sidelights. There are intact 6-over-6 windows; authentic window blinds; and a large dressed stone foundation
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
On January 5, 1803, a group of twenty-five Lenox citizens petitioned the State Legislature to grant an incorporation to their group for the purpose of establishing an Academy. They were incorporated February 22, 1803 as “The Berkshire Academy,” the name being changed to the Lenox Academy in June of that year. The Academy flourished throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, and had a number of illustrious headmasters and students including John Hotchkiss, Josiah Lyman, Mark Hopkins and Charles Sedgwick. The Academy closed in 1866, serving as a public high school from 1869 until 1879. In 1879, under the direction of Judge Julius Rockwell, the building was moved to a new foundation and repaired, reopening the following year under principal Harlan H. Ballard. In 1886 the building was again put to use as a public high school, serving in that capacity until 1908. The Academy was incorporated as a private school, the Trinity School, in 1911 and remained in operation as such until the 1920’s.
After a period of vacancy and the threat of demolition, the decision was made at a special town meeting to preserve the building, and in 1947 the trustees of the Academy turned the building over to the town. Since that time it has served as office and meeting space for various public groups including the Girl Scouts, the Lenox Garden Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Historical Society, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Lenox Historical Commission.
Listed on National Register of Historic Places, September 30, 1982
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Old Form B
Town of Lenox Assessor’s Map
Lenox Academy records 1803-1947 (manuscript in collection of Lenox Library)
Berkshire County Historical Society Survey form – D.S. Smith, October 1972
“Saving of Lenox Academy,” Berkshire Eagle, October 25, 1946
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Gothic Revival style building has one plus stories, an asphalt shingle roof and is intact. It is two-bay. It has a wood frame; cross-gable roof with exposed rafter ends, and a steeply pitched front gable. It has a stone-clad octagonal bell tower with hipped “witches hat” roof with wood shingles and exposed rafter ends. It has a one-story entrance pavilion that extends along the right side to the rear wing and forward of the main building with a series of six 18-light Tudor-arched windows on the right side, one on the left side with a wood shingled kneewall below. The front door surround has dentils on a slightly peaked header, exposed rafter ends, and a paneled verge board with king post on its narrow front.
There is a brick side wall chimney on the right side at the inside corner of the main and right wing sections. The front facade of the main section has set of three stained glass windows. The left side facade features three paired windows with double gable/peaked headers. The rear cross wing is two bays deep, and has an exposed basement with ground-level access. There is a one-story rear ell at the basement level. A stone retaining wall extends and curves forward from the front rightt corner of the entrance pavilion.
Designed by Pittsfield architect, J. F. Rathbone [Rathbun?]. More research needed to clarify architect information on original Form B. Can’t find record of J. F. Rathbone and Rathbun’s initials are C. T. (Charles T. Rathbun).
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This was originally the site of the Lenox Library which was housed in an octagonal building. The Congregational Society purchased the property after the library moved to the Second County Courthouse building in 1873. Construction of the Chapel was authorized by the Congregational Society in 1876, “in response to a felt need for a center for social activities.” The foundation of the chapel was constructed from the brick and stone of the old library building.
The Chapel was used primarily as a meeting place until the turn of the century, when it was modernized. Following this modernization, the Chapel was used for Sunday services, as the Church on the Hill was inadequately heated and the congregation had become quite small. The Chapel was damaged by fire in 1930 and then restored. In the 1950’s oil heat was installed at the Church on the Hill and services returned to that building. A Church School held in the Chapel had increased its enrollment to the point that it overflowed the building by 1968. The interior of the Chapel was remodeled at this time to accommodate the school activities.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Old Form B
Town Assessor’s Report
The Congregational Chapel, Rev. Harris B. Hinchliff
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been altered. It has a three-bay center entrance and a pedimented front gable roof with attic fanlight. It is wood frame with wood clapboard siding; pilasters flank the center bay. The corner pilasters have light/refined entablature. The front door is surrounded by a three-light transom and pilasters. The door has a12-light window. The right side entry has a gable header with a sunburst design, dentils, and pilasters. The house has a stone foundation. Farther back on the right side is a small cross-gabled box bay with pedimented side entry; large recessed cross-gabled side ell on left with concrete foundation (added after 1939).
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Oliver Peck, the original owner of this house, was an attorney with the Lenox firm Peck and Phelps. A subsequent owner, Benjamin Rogers, was an employee of George Westinghouse, and was in part responsible for bring electricity to the town. Rogers had his workshop in an annex, later used as a greenhouse. In 1876 Mrs. Platner was the owner, in 1900 it was Francis Weed and in 1904 Benjamin H. Rogers purchased the property. This house caught fire in the Easter fire of 1909, but was saved from destruction. In the 1980’s the house was owned by Dr. Carl Bergan who used space in the house as a medical office and rented out apartments. Currently the building is owned by Charles Schulz and contains a hair salon and retail stores.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
1854 Clark Map,1876 Beers Map
“Wm. C. Curtis & J. D. Curtis” on 1854 Clark Map; Mrs. Justin Curtis & W. O. Curtis on 1876 Beers Map
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Italianate style building has two stories, a standing-seam metal roof and is intact. It has a three-bay, center entrance and a wood frame. There are two brick interior chimneys; a gable roof w/paired scroll sawn brackets. There is a front gabled wall dormer at the center of the front façade with a Roman-arched attic window. There are smaller front gabled dormers with eave returns and arched attic windows that flank the central wall dormer. There are attic windows on the gable ends– also arched. The front entrance porch has four Doric columns and two Doric engaged columns, balcony above with modillions on overhanging eaves and millwork railings on both levels and ball finials on balcony posts. There is an enclosed (glazed) right side porch and a large two-story cross-gabled rear ell.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
The 1854 Clark Map depicts a building with a substantially different footprint than the present bldg. Either that building was completely remodeled or replaced–perhaps when bought by Andrew and Harriet Servin in 1872 (supporting the estimated 1870 construction date). The building with a footprint matching the current building and labeled “A. T. Servin” is depicted on 1876 Beers Map.
“Andrew Thompson purchased this lot in 1836, and with a mortgage from the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company built this house. In 1850 Horatio Sears purchased the property and resided in the house until his death in 1861, when it was sold at public auction for payment of debts and expenses of administration of his estate. Several changes in ownership followed; George Wells, who bought the house and lot at auction for $1,100 sold it to Thomas Post, who in turn sold it to Harriet Servin (Mrs. Andrew Servin) in 1872. In 1875 Elizabeth Bennett (Mrs. Charles Bennett) bought the house and lived there for a time, but after being widowed she rented out the property to Henry S. Leavitt of New York. Around 1900 it was purchased by B.K. Stevens, who named in Sunnyhome (also “Sunnyholm”). In 1930 Mr. Robert S. Tillotson bought the house.”
His daughter lived there in the 1987 when the form B was last updated. In 1995 Paul R. Chernov bought the property and then sold the house to Alice Meleski in 1997. It was sold to the current owner, Austin Riggs Center, Inc., in 2004.
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 is a 4-bay, wood frame with asymmetrical form, a hipped roof and several gable dormers. There are 3 brick chimneys (2 on the right side and 1 on the left. It has a gabled 2nd floor balcony on the right side of the front façade. It has wood clapboard & wood shingle siding as well as decorative shingling in the front gable, on the flared band between the 1st & 2nd floors, and in the balcony gable. There is a large scrolled pediment over the entrance to the glazed wrap-around porch. A front gabled bay projects over the front of the porch. It has a 2-story faceted bay window on the left side with scroll sawn braces above angled sides finished with a ball pendant 2-story rear ell. There are intact 2-over-2 & 4-over-4 windows. It has authentic wood blinds on the 2nd floor and a foundation of large dressed stones.
This is a good example of the Queen Anne style, which enjoyed a brief popularity in Lenox before being eclipsed by the Colonial Revival (another surviving example of this style is the former Congressional Parsonage at 142 Main Street). Like most Queen Anne houses, this one is eclectic, mixing elements such as the Palladian window in the front gable with medieval touches like the patterned masonry chimneys. One of the two chimneys has an oval window inset. This was something of a technological marvel in the 1880’s. The hipped roof with cross gables and varied dormers is a hallmark of this style, although ill-suited to snowy Berkshire winters. An original front porch and a small second-story porch were later enclosed with multi-paned windows; and the installation of a commercial storefront in one corner of the front façade have somewhat altered the Queen Anne façade.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This house was built on the site of an earlier house demolished in the late 1870’s. The lot was purchased from the owner of that house, Lucy Cottrell by Electa Eddy in 1880. In 1885, Charles and Margaret Eddy mortgaged the property for $ 9,000, and the following year sold it to John Egmont Schermerhorn for $25,000. The furnishings of the house were included in this sale, with the exception of several items mentioned specifically in the deed, the famly and household silver and linens, and the “articles of bric-a-brac of a personal and ornamental character”. Mr. Schermerhorn named the house “The Lanai”, perhaps referring to its original porches. Frank and Mary Newton acquired the property in 1992.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Registry of Deeds, Pittsfield, MA 243.329, 258.354, 262.5454
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal/Neo-Classical style building has two stories, a metal roof and is intact. It has a three-bay, center entrance and brick construction laid up in Flemish bond. It has a hipped roof with a balustrade in alternating paneled and geometric railing sections. The entablature is topped by a pediment with modillions and a tall cylindrical lantern with modillions, supported with eight fluted Doric columns and topped with a spire. Paired Ionic columns support the entablature and flank the central entrance. There are Ionic pilasters at the outer edges of the front façade. A shallow ell projects from the left side with a cross-hipped roof. There are brick chimneys – four side wall, right and one side wall, left. The door surround has a segmentally arched transom, 2/3rds-length sidelights with panels below; original or early or early wood paneled front door. There are blind archways with windows in outer bays of the front façade. The building is eight bays deep with intact 6-over-6 windows, limestone lintels, flared headers, (cylindrical metal fire-stop shade holders attached), and authentic wood paneled shutters.
1893 Sanborn Map labels bldg as follows: “Bank” in right front section, “Library” in left front section, “Stage & Scenery” in rear, “Hall – 2nd [floor],” & rear addition as “Assembly Hall”.
Isaac Damon was born in 1781. At age 30, he moved from Weymouth (MA) to Northampton (MA). His wife died the following year, and he married Sophia Strong (pictured), who delivered eight children. Over the course of his career, Damon built at least 13 churches, 14 other buildings, and 25 bridges. Most of his buildings were constructed in the Connecticut River Valley, but his bridge work took him farther afield. His fully-enclosed bell towers and steeples are easily recognized throughout his region of influence. He retired in 1852 at the age of 71 and died ten years later.
Following From: Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) by Henry F. Withey, AIA & Elsie Rathburn Withey. (Los Angeles, CA: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970).
“Damon, (Captain) Isaac
“Architect-building in western Massachusetts for more than three decades, his work included a number of public buildings, mainly churches. It is believed that Damon was one of the junior draftsmen in the Town & Davis office in New York, and when in 1811 he was called to Northampton to build the First Congregational Church, it seems probable that Ithiel Town helped prepare the plans (*). The church, one of the largest and most elaborate in New England at the time of its erection stood until 1878 when it was destroyed by fire. In Northampton Mr. Damon also designed the Town Hall built in 1823 (*).
“In the course of years he executed many important commissions, and the drawings, some of them in India ink, showed skill in draftsmanship. In his work as builder he was one of the first to understand the use of a truss and incorporated it in the bridgework of a number of buildings. Thirteen or more churches in the western part of the state are ascribed to him among which should be named the First Church at Lenox, dating from 1814; the First Church at Springfield, 1818 (**); the old Meeting House at Ware, 1820 (**), and the Unitarian Meeting House at Greenfield. In addition he was architect of the county Court House at Lenox (an early building from 1814); and probably designed (at least he was paid for making the plans) the oldest group of buildings at Amherst College, including the North and South halls and the Chapel between 1821 and 1827 (***).
“- References: Dictionary of American Biography; “Town and Davis, Architects,” by Roger Hale Newton (*); “Greek Revival Architecture in America,” Talbot Hamlin, 1944 (***).”
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Built in 1815, this was Lenox’s Second County Courthouse. The First Courthouse, a wooden structure built shortly after Lenox became the county seat in 1787, was not large enough to adequately serve the needs of the county court. The new Courthouse was a far more imposing structure, costing the county $26,059, a substantial sum in 1815. The Courthouse quickly became a landmark, and came to symbolize Lenox’s position of prominence in the region.
When the county seat moved to Pittsfield in 1868, this building was vacated, and its fate uncertain. Mrs. Adeline Schermerhorn, a long-time summer resident of Lenox, heard about the impending auction of the building at her winter residence in Rome, and commissioned Judge Julius Rockwell to secure the property to be held in trust for the people of Lenox as a free public library. Mrs. Schermerhorn died before the deed could be executed, but her children carried out her wishes, and conveyed the property to the five trustees named by their mother. At her request the building was named the Charles Sedgwick Library, after the popular Clerk of the Courts and citizen of Lenox. The library was dedicated in January of 1874. The rooms formerly occupied by the probate court were leased to the selectmen as town offices. The Lenox Library Association, which had been formed in 1797 and originally housed in the First County Courthouse, decided to move from its 1856 brick building (on the present site of the Congregational Chapel) and consolidate its collection with the Sedgwick Library. Currently serves as the Lenox Library.
Listed on National Register of Historic Places April 3, 1973
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Old Form B
Town Assessor’s Report
Lenox Library, John H.P. Gould and Irene M. Poirier, 1948
Interview with Mrs. Linstead, Librarian, 1978
David Merrill, “Issac Damon and the Southwick Column Papers,” Old Time New England, Vol. LIV, No. 2, Fall 1963, pp. 48-58
7 Main St., Major General John Paterson House – 1783
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by Lenox Historical Commission
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This Federal style building has two stories, an asphalt shingle roof and has been minimally altered. It is a 5-bay, center entrance construction. It has wood frame; clapboard siding with a hipped roof with molded cornice with dentiled band below. There are 2 brick end-wall chimneys, painted white. It has a symmetrically organized front façade and an intact entrance porch with pediment, pillars and pilasters. The front door surround has a 4-light transom. There is a large 2-story rear ell with hipped roof, an exposed foundation, and entry at the basement level. It has a left side wall chimney and a 1-story rear extension on its right side. The building has a stone foundation.
A five-bay, hipped-roof Federal house with a center entrance and end wall chimneys. It is one of the few houses of this period to survive in Lenox Village (others are 74 Walker St., 83 Main St., and 9 Cliffwood St.) This is the largest and most impressive of them, although it is restrained in ornament, and reflects the position held by the Paterson family.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This house was built for Major General John Paterson, a friend, counselor and comrade of General George Washington, and led the Berkshire troops. John Paterson was the Berkshires’ most distinguished soldier in the Revolutionary War, and led troops in most of the major battles of the war. He was an advisor to George Washington crossed the Delaware with him. Through most of the war he held the rank of Colonel, but before leaving the service of the United States Army he was appointed full Major General.
Major General Paterson did not occupy this house for long, for in 1790 he retired to Lisle, New York, where he died in 1808. The house passed to his daughter, Hannah Paterson, and her husband Major Azariah Egleston. Egleston, who had served under Paterson and also participated in most of the major battles of the revolution. Egleston later served as Justice of the Peace and state senator. The house remained in the Egleston family through the 19th century, although later generations used it as a summer residence. The building was purchased by the Lenox National Bank in 1968 and has operated as a bank since 1971.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
Lenox: Massachusetts Shire Town, David Wood, 1969
Lenox and the Berkshire Highlands, R. DeWitt Mallary, 1902
Dictionary of American Biography
Inscription on Paterson-Egleston Monument
Lenox Assessor’s database – 2011
Lenox Library Reference Section (Invoice from William Walker Esq to Simeon Smith)
