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 from its left front corner. The roof is hipped with projecting gabled bays and dormers, and clad with asphalt. It has a molded verge board. There is a brick center chimney. Corner boards, wood banding along the top of the second floor windows and bottom of first floor windows, water-table, and vertical bay-defining boards all reveal its Stick Style design. A wrap-around porch, from front to a right side ell, has a pediment with incised decoration above its entrance, four turned posts, two engaged turned posts, scroll sawn and incised braces and valances, and a railing with millwork balusters below arches. The front door is a 2-part Dutch type with a 9-light Queen Anne-style window over three panels. A 1-story lean-to is located behind the right-side ell. A 2-story canted bay window with projecting pedimented gable roof supported by scroll sawn corner braces below is located on the left side. There are a number of original 5-o-1 and 9-o-1 windows; others have been replaced. The foundation is of rough-faced cut stone.
NOTE: On the 1876 Beers Map, there are two properties labeled Mrs. M. Newton and J. S. Smith; the houses on which appear to have been demolished and replaced by this one.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
This property was owned by Mr. Ensign Loomis until 1855 when he sold it to Mr. James S. Smith who lived at the residence until 1888. Mr. Murry A. Brown bought the property in 1888 and sold it two years later to Issac J. Newton. Mr. Newton lived in the house until 1935 when he sold the house to Mr. Adelbert I. Newton and his wife, Beatrice. In 1943, Edward and Ora Burke bought the house. In 1989 the property was sold to Doralene Davis who sold it to Marc Rosenthal in 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES:
1876 Beers Map
Town of Lenox Assessors Records
Registry of Deeds, Pittsfield
Lenox Town Hall records
McAlester, Lee and Virginia, A Field Guide to American Houses, p. 262-267
Lenox Assessor’s database
