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Tag: Berkshire Cottages

The Self-Taught Gardener: Once more to the lake

This simplicity of spirit is at the heart of what I love about country living and what I occasionally fear is lacking in our present-day approach to rural life.

by Lee Buttala
Posted on January 19, 2017
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Berkshire Robber Barons, part 1: The Fosters of Bellefontaine

If we understand the nineteenth century Robber Barons are we any closer to understanding the 21st century 1 percent?

by Carole Owens
Posted on August 30, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Gilded Age crumbled of its own exclusivity

Even as the Berkshire cottages were being built, the seeds of the undoing of an American aristocracy were being planted.

by Carole Owens
Posted on June 21, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Berkshire ‘cottages,’ then and now

The size of these Gilded Age estates helped create South County’s unique beauty and semi-rural character. For a video tour of the cottages, go to the end of the article.

by Carole Owens
Posted on June 14, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Blantyre and the future of Berkshire ‘cottages’

Blantyre is a true restoration in that it can transport the guest back in time. But now this Berkshire Cottage is on the market. Will it — can it — be acquired by someone who respects its original architecture and does not demand density for profitability?

by Carole Owens
Posted on May 31, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: A Berkshire Cottage antithesis in Lenox

The building is stridently modern. The art and the architecture of the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, on Hawthorne Street in Lenox, celebrate the owners and what they treasured.

by Carole Owens
Posted on July 21, 2015
News

Connections: Cranwell, iconic Berkshire ‘cottage,’ on the block — again

This sale of Cranwell will be the tenth in a series, and it will not be the last. It is not the first attempt to turn an epitome of indulgence – a Berkshire Cottage — into a profit center. It is not the first attempt to change a building symbolic of another age into something useful in this age.

by Carole Owens
Posted on March 9, 2015
News

Stockbridge selectman defer decision on Elm Court development — again

‘We are not against Elm Court. We encourage smart growth, but this is the commercialization of a rural neighborhood.’
–Old Stockbridge Road resident Barney Edmonds

by David Scribner
Posted on August 5, 2014
Life In the Berkshires

Connections: Elm Court epitomized the (past) Gilded Age

‘Elm Court…has become famous…as an example of what the progressive modern spirit, backed up by abundant capital, can accomplish.’
— Berkshire Resort Topics, 1904

by Carole Owens
Posted on June 25, 2014
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