The 28th “new” Lenox Tub Parade made its annual appearance this September. The “new” tub parade has now appeared longer…
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From Little Women to Downton Abbey In the 19th and early 20th century, Lenox evolved from farm community and county seat to a resort for the ultra wealthy. In the…
A plaque across from Hawthorne Street celebrates the location of the first settler of Lenox – Jonathan Hinsdale. It was, for a long time, the primary north-south route to Stockbridge…
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…
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 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…
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: 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 rambling, 2-story, wood-framed house evolved over quite a number of years and is categorized as Colonial Revival. It…
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….
From Surveys Completed 2011-2012 by the Lenox Historical Commission ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: This is a two-story, three-bay wide house, three bays deep, in the Classical Revival style. It was constructed of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…