Designed by Pittsfield architect, Wilson Eyre, Thomas Shields Clark completed his Lenox estate, Fernbrook in 1904.

Featured in the 1909 House Beautiful, Clark’s Lenox estate and studio was considered the epitome of arts and crafts design.  It included gardens (gone today) flowing from the house and a teahouse. Clarke was active in the Lenox Garden Club.

 

Princeton graduate Clarke married Adelaide Knox in 1886 in Geneva, Switzerland.  The Clarkes and their three children lived in Europe for 11 years returning to the US in 1894.

 

The painter and sculptor is best known for his sculpture “The Cider Press” at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mansion survives, in stripped down form, as the Hillcrest Educational Center.