The most widely accepted theory is that the earliest visitors to North America (and eventually our area) followed their hunting quarry over a land bridge from Asia to Alaska….
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Throughout the millennia, the earth has gone through long periods of warming and cooling. The entire Pleistocene Epoch – beginning about 2MM years ago was marked by invasions of massive…
Grenville LIndall Winthrop built Groton Place in 1905 as a summer home. It encompassed the stone villa on this site from 1858 (The Elms). The new Carrera & Hastings designed…
With its emphasis on experiential learning and letting the learner define the pace and structure of learning, progressive education techniques were/are particularly appropriate for young people who had trouble learning…
www.lenoxhistory.org We’re looking for volunteers for whatever you would like to contribute to our Lenox History collection. Here are some ideas that have been suggested: Great fires of Lenox The…
Church on the Hill Burying Ground Lenox received three acres for a burying ground in 1770 and the first burial took place the following year. The Church on the Hill…
Lenox Village When Lenox was founded in 1767 most residents would have been farmers – even if lawyering, tavern owning, shoemaking, etc. formed part of the support for themselves and…
Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky was born July 26, 1874 to a poor Jewish family in what is now Tver Oblast Russia – about 155 miles northwest of Moscow. His parents were…
An excellent example of the immigrants who came to work on the estates – and whose descendants populate modern Lenox. L.C. Peters, one of 10 children, left Kent, England in…
Born in 1850, Edward R. (Teddy ) Wharton was destined to live the stereotypical version of the Gilded Age life so elegantly portrayed by his wife Edith Jones Wharton. Son…
Born to a wealthy New York family in 1835, Annie Haggerty Shaw represents both the Berkshire Civil War widows and the “first generation” of Lenox summer homeowners. Her parents, Elizabeth…
Although born in Great Barrington in 1798 (not Lenox), Anson Jones is a colorful example of the many Lenox residents who moved on in the early 19th century to New…
William Walker was born in Rehoboth in 1751. This location is not far from one of the early Puritan settlements, and he is undoubtedly one of the many Lenox settlers…
He was born in Sheffield in 1757, son of Seth Eggleston and Rachel Church Eggleston. Like many of his generation, his father was born in Westfield and emigrated west –…
Jonathan Hinsdale was the first known European inhabitant of Lenox. He was born March 17, 1724 in Hartford, CT. Many early Berkshire residents came from Connecticut. It may have been…
Belvoir Terrace was designed by Rotch & Tilden and built between 1888-1890 for Morris K. Jesup, with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmstead. John Shepherd purchased the estate in the early…
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 altered. It now has…
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a 2-story, wood-framed house with wood clapboard and shingle siding prominently sited atop a hillock. It displays…
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This house displays a transitional architectural style from Gothic Revival to Queen Anne. The wood-framed building originally had an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
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….
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This 2-story, wood-framed farmhouse has a front gable, asphalt-shingled roof with three bays on the front facade. It is…
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This Federal period dwelling is wood framed, two stories tall and has a 5-bay, center entrance facade. There is…
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…
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…