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 roof covered in asphalt shingles, is clad with wood clapboard, and has corner boards. One of two original interior brick chimneys remains. The front facade is dominated by a 2-story canted bay window that has narrow pilasters, paired pilasters alternating with shingles, between the windows. A wrap-around porch extends from the bay window around the left side of the house back to a 2-story cross-gabled ell, well back from the front facade. It has chamfered pillars and millwork railing. The intact wood front door has a window above panels. The window headers are lipped on the first floor front facade, but more heavily molded on the sides and upper stories. There is a mix of intact and replaced windows; the 2-over-2 windows appear to be original. A rear porch extending along the width of the house has been enclosed/glazed. The foundation is of rough-faced cut stone. A picket fence runs along the front property line.

NOTE: Although there is a building depicted in this location on the 1854 Clark Map (labeled Wd. Dunbar”) it probably was replaced by the current building, which is depicted on the 1876 Beers Map and labeled “Mrs. A. Root.”

HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:

This property was owned by Mary Cooper until 1867 when she sold it to Sarah Root. Miss Root sold the property to Mr. and Mrs. Frances H. Cooke in 1877. After the Cookes came Catherine Snyder, who lived there until 1883. George R. Markham owned the property from 1883-1901. Mr. Robert Richards bought the property in 1901 and remained the owner until 1915. Mr. Thomas J. Kearnin owned the property briefly between 1915-1916. He sold to Marion L. Richards who owned until 1929. In 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Nugent bought the property. Mr. Nugent was a freight train worker for the Lenox Station. The Nugents owned the property until 1986 when the property was titled to their nephew, Mr. Charles Fuore. In 1997 it was owned by Philip R. Coleman who sold it to John J. Donohue in 2003. Mr. Donohue sold it to Valerie W. Ryan in 2004.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:

1854 Clark Map, 1876 Beers Map

Assessor’s Report

Lenox Town Hall Records

Registry of Deeds

Mr. Charles Fuore

Lenox Assessor’s database