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	History of Lenox, Massachusetts - Berkshire County
		One of the grandest cottages in Lenox is open for public tours: The Mount, built by novelist Edith Wharton.
		The Mount is now undergoing a restoration to bring it back to its former grandeur.
		A new era for Lenox and the Berkshires began in the 1930s, when music lovers began sponsoring symphonic concerts in the summer months.
	www.lenox.org /history.html (446 words)

	History of Lenox, Massachusetts - Berkshire County
		One of the grandest cottages in Lenox is open for public tours: The Mount, built by novelist Edith Wharton.
		By the late 1800s, Lenox and Stockbridge were booming as the summer homes of many of the country's elite.
		The Mount is now undergoing a restoration to bring it back to its former grandeur.
	www.lenox.org /history.html (446 words)

	Lenox Massachusetts Real Estate
		As the summer location for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, together with Shakespeare and Company at Edith Wharton's grand estate, the Mount, and several resorts/spas, tourism plays an important economic role in supporting a modest commercial base.
		enox is a small residential community adjacent to the City of Pittsfield in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.
		Lenox is also popular for outdoor recreational activities, including skiing, fishing and hiking, which attracts visitors year-round, adding economic stability.
	www.relocate-america.com /states/MA/cities/lenox.htm (311 words)

	Welcome to Lenox, Massachusetts
		Our rural beauty and major cultural attractions, including Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Shakespeare and Company’s new international campus, and Edith Wharton& restored mansion, The Mount, attract thousands annually.
		We are a small but vibrant New England town nestled in the heart of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
		Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Built in 1901
	www.townoflenox.com (156 words)

	Town of Lenox in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts on 1st Traveler's Choice: Lodging Directory of America's Bed & Breakfasts, Country Inns, and Small Hotels.
		Town of Lenox in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts on 1st Traveler's Choice: Lodging Directory of America's Bed and Breakfasts, Country Inns, and Small Hotels.
		The Mount, another one of Lenox's impressive mansions, served as the summer home of novelist Edith Wharton and is now open to the public.
		The aristocracy of Boston and New York discovered Lenox, the Berkshire county seat, during the mid-1800's, and soon thereafter the rich and famous began to flock here routinely, particularly during the summertime.
	www.virtualcities.com /ons/ma/x/as/maxb0a33.htm (156 words)

	The Guide to Lenox, Massachusetts - Yokun Town - E
		Edith Wharton Restoration - located in Lenox, Massachusetts was designed and built by Wharton in 1901-02 as an architectural expression of the order, scale, and harmony that she advocated in her first book, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored with architect Ogden Codman.
		It's located in Lenox, Massachusetts, a town known world-wide for its culture, theater, music, and museums while Eastover is casual, informal, and unpretentious.
		The Guide to Lenox, Massachusetts - Yokun Town - E
	www.berkshireweb.com /themap/lenox/a2z/e.html (156 words)

	Welcome to Lenox, Massachusetts
		We are a small but vibrant New England town nestled in the heart of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
		Our rural beauty and major cultural attractions, including Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Shakespeare and Company’s new international campus, and Edith Wharton’s restored mansion, The Mount, attract thousands annually.
		We gather at the Annual Town Meeting to debate the town and school budgets and to elect our five Selectmen who oversee municipal services.
	www.townoflenox.com (156 words)

	Williamstown vacation rentals Massachusetts Home
		This idyllic setting boasts wonderful mountain views, including Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, (3,491 feet).
		Approximately 30 minutes away in Lenox, Massachusetts is Tanglewood.
		Williamstown is the home of Williams College, one of the preeminent educational institutions in the country.
	www.greatrentals.com /MA/11008.html (781 words)

	Adventure Tours Lenox MA Massachusetts + National Parks - City Guide
		The Mount now houses a cultural and educational center that focuses on the achievement of women and offers a lecture series in July and August, and self-guided tours are available.
		Adventure Tours Lenox MA Massachusetts + National Parks - City Guide
		Pahat, the mummy, guards the Ancient Civilizations Gallery, and exquisite sculptures from the Seventeenth through the Twentieth Centuries adorn the Fine Art Galleries; family programs, performances and lectures are presented throughout the year.
	www.discoverourtown.com /TownPage.php?Town=1908&Cat=Attractions (781 words)

	Travel information1
		Of special interest to those who are able to visit New England later in the summer, Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts will be doing "Vita and Virginia" by Eileen Atkins, July 12-August 31.
		Amtrak trains from New York and Boston stop in Springfield, Massachusetts, 30 minutes south, and transfer may be made to the Peter Pan Bus Line, two blocks from the train station.
		Amherst College, Amherst, MA Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Emily Dickinson's Home
	www.smith.edu /woolfconference/travelinformation1.html (1101 words)

	Lenox News
		LENOX, Massachusetts With his first season as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra behind him, James Levine took up the position's summer duties with the recent opening of the orchestra's...
		The Massachusetts Lodging Association To Honor Roger A. Saunders with The Hall of Fame Awards
		The small towns in Western Massachusetts are anything but lacking in the arts.
	www.topix.net /city/lenox-ma (1101 words)

	bed breakfast Lodging in the berkshires of massachusetts ~ The Inn at Richmond-New England Bed and Breakfast and Country Inn in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
		Tanglewood, Hancock Shaker Village, Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare andCompany, Jacob's Pillow, Barrington Stage, Clark Art Institute, Jiminy Peak Ski Area, Ski Butternut, Cranwell Golf, Spa and Ski Resort, Canyon Ranch, The Mount and Mass MoCA are just a sampling of the many nearby Berkshires attractions.
		Located in the quaint town of Richmond, near Stockbridge, Lenox (just 6 1/2 miles from Tanglewood), Great Barrington, Lee and Pittsfield, this elegant Berkshires BandB lodging offers an environment that refreshes the body, soothes the mind and renews the spirit.
		bed breakfast Lodging in the berkshires of massachusetts ~ The Inn at Richmond-New England Bed and Breakfast and Country Inn in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
	www.innatrichmond.com (1101 words)

	The Edith Wharton Society: Frequently Asked Questions about Edith Wharton
		One of the most famous of Wharton's homes is The Mount near Lenox, Massachusetts.
		Several of the homes and places associated with Edith Wharton are still standing; some are privately owned, but others can be toured.
		[14 W. 23rd Street is still standing, though much altered--it's now the home of Scott's Fifth Avenue Florist.--JN]
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/wharton/faq.htm (1101 words)

	Lenox News
		LENOX, Massachusetts With his first season as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra behind him, James Levine took up the position's summer duties with the recent opening of the orchestra's...
		The small towns in Western Massachusetts are anything but lacking in the arts.
		The Massachusetts Lodging Association To Honor Roger A. Saunders with The Hall of Fame Awards
	www.topix.net /city/lenox-ma (1101 words)

	Edith Wharton
		Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902.
		Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage.
		dith Wharton was in an ideal position to view the social ambitions of the newly rich of the Gilded Age (the post-Civil War period of American expansion in business, foreign affairs, and the arts).
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/wharton/whar3.htm (1101 words)

	The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		Edith Wharton's Lenox, Massachusetts, home, The Mount, is an example of the renaissance in American art and architecture that occurred between 1876 and 1917.
		Wharton's years at the Mount (from 1902 to 1911) were some of the most productive years of her career.
		The Mount employs the principles of scientific eclecticism and illustrates the evolution of American interior decoration and landscape architecture at the turn of the twentieth century.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st2/xroads.virginia.edu/%7EMA01/Davis/wharton/home/introduction.html (1101 words)

	Beatrix Farrand- "Landscape Gardener"
		Wharton's Country Estate, The Mount in Lenox, Ma Beatrix' relationship with Edith Wharton was particularly important.
		"The Mount" was set in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts which certainly provided a picturesque backdrop for Wharton's country estate.
		Wharton was especially well-connected in the elite social circles of the day and helped to further Beatrix' career by introducing her to many people who soon became her clients.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA99/hall/Dumbartonoaks/farrand_dum.html (1101 words)

	Poets & Writers Magazine
		Novelists Henry James and Edith Wharton with their friend Howard Sturgis (on right) in 1904 on the grounds of The Mount, Wharton's estate in the Berkshire mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts.
		To celebrate The Mount's centennial this year, Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc., an organization founded in 1980 to preserve and restore the national historic landmark, invited designers to create interior installations at the estate based on principles articulated in Wharton's 1897 book The Decoration of Houses.
		The exhibition, "A Centennial Celebration: Designers Salute Edith Wharton and The Mount," will be on view until November 4.
	www.pw.org /mag/newsWI0207.htm (1101 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The Mount : estate & gardens designed by Edith Wharton
		In 1902 she designed and built 'The Mount' on a property she bought in Lenox, Massachusetts, and afterwards designed its garden.
		The American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937), best known for her novels based on New York Society, was also the co-author of 'The decoration of houses' (1897) and the author of 'Italian villas and their gardens' (1904).
		The site has a Bookstore featuring all Wharton's in print titles, and there are details of the various lecture series that are held at the house.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=8260 (1101 words)

	The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		Edith Wharton's Lenox, Massachusetts, home, The Mount, is an example of the renaissance in American art and architecture that occurred between 1876 and 1917.
		The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		The Mount employs the principles of scientific eclecticism and illustrates the evolution of American interior decoration and landscape architecture at the turn of the twentieth century.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st2/xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/wharton/home/introduction.html (332 words)

	Edith Evans
		Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. Founded in 1980 to preserve and restore Edith Wharton's home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts and to establish it as a cultural center dedicated to the study and promotion of Edith Wharton, literature, and the design arts.
		Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc. Founded in 1980 to preserve and restore Edith Wharton's home, The Mount, and to establish it as a cultural center dedicated to the study and promotion of Edith Wharton, literature, and the design arts.
		Evans was knighted as a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1946.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Edith_Evans.html (398 words)

	The Mount: Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance
		(38) Scott Marshall, The Mount, Home of Edith Wharton: A Historic Structure Report (Lenox, MA: Edith Wharton Restoration, 1997), 37.
		(30) Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life, 89; Scott Marshall, inteview by author, Lenox, Massachusetts, October 2001.
		(46) Theresa Craig, Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms; Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996), 122.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/wharton/notes/notes.html (398 words)

	Berkshire Hills -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
		Crossed by the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Berkshires contain state parks and forests and are the home of the Tanglewood summer music festival (in Lenox).
		city, Berkshire county, western Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the headstreams of the Housatonic River, in the Berkshire Hills, 55 miles (88 km) northwest of Springfield.
		Many of its summits exceed 2,000 ft (600 m), including Mount Greylock (3,491 ft, or 1,064 m), the highest point in the state.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9357089&query=null&ct=null (398 words)

	The Timeshare Beat: It's Your World; From Marble Bridges to Shaker Chairs: the Berkshires Abound in Historic Sites
		The Mount, in Lenox, is a classical mansion built by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence, Ethan Fromme, and The House of Mirth.
		Another Lenox restoration is underway at the Museum of the Gilded Age’s Ventfort Hall, used as the orphanage in the feature film “Cider House Rules.”
		In the center of the county, at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, is a restored 200-year-old original Shaker village featuring 21 historic buildings.
	www.thetimesharebeat.com /yourworld/berkshires2.htm (741 words)

	Windflower Inn - Great Barrington, Massachusetts - BBOnline.com / Introduction
		Other attractions include The Berkshire Choral Festival, as well as Shakespeare and Company, a series of summer theatrical productions of the great Bard's works and other playwrights at The Mount, Edith Wharton's estate in Lenox.
		A gracious, antiques-filled country inn, on 10 acres in the heart of the Berkshire Hills of southwestern Massachusetts.
		Windflower is a great place for family gatherings and celebrations where you feel as if the party is in your own home, but you have none of the work.
	www.bbonline.com /ma/windflower (547 words)

	Edith Wharton
		Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902.
		Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage.
		dith Wharton was in an ideal position to view the social ambitions of the newly rich of the Gilded Age (the post-Civil War period of American expansion in business, foreign affairs, and the arts).
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/wharton/whar3.htm (1160 words)

	Wharton
		They divided their year between New York and Newport and later Lenox, Massachusetts, where Edith Wharton had designed a home called "The Mount." In 1897 she co-authored a book with Ogden Codman, Jr., titled The Decoration of Houses.
		The large number of Wharton's letters to Fullerton for which no date could be determined were arranged by the type of stationery on which they were written in the hope that a Wharton scholar familiar with her letter writing habits may be able to attribute possible dates for these items.
		He later joined the staff of Le Figaro in Paris.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/wharton.html (1172 words)

	bed breakfast Lodging in the berkshires of massachusetts ~ The Inn at Richmond-New England Bed and Breakfast and Country Inn in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
		Located in the quaint town of Richmond, near Stockbridge, Lenox (just 6 1/2 miles from Tanglewood), Great Barrington, Lee and Pittsfield, this elegant Berkshires BandB lodging offers an environment that refreshes the body, soothes the mind and renews the spirit.
		Tanglewood, Hancock Shaker Village, Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Shakespeare andCompany, Jacob's Pillow, Barrington Stage, Clark Art Institute, Jiminy Peak Ski Area, Ski Butternut, Cranwell Golf, Spa and Ski Resort, Canyon Ranch, The Mount and Mass MoCA are just a sampling of the many nearby Berkshires attractions.
		The Inn at Richmond accommodation in the Berkshires provides luxurious Bed and Breakfast lodging in a pre-Revolutionary War New England colonial home that has been sensitively renovated to retain its historic architectural charm.
	www.innatrichmond.com (1172 words)

	Edith Wharton
		Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902.
		Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage.
		dith Wharton was in an ideal position to view the social ambitions of the newly rich of the Gilded Age (the post-Civil War period of American expansion in business, foreign affairs, and the arts).
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/wharton/whar3.htm (1160 words)

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