num_pages: 314
description: "Houses of the Berkshires" surveys 35 of the most renowned resort estates of Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, designed by nationally-known firms, including McKim, Mead &amp; White, Carrere and Hastings, and Frederick Law Olmsted. The client list included lawyer and Ambassador Joseph Choate, inventor George Westinghouse, and novelist-social observer Edith Wharton. Illustrated with over 300 archival photographs and floor plans, the book uniquely chronicles a distinctive social and literary colony and now vanished way of life.
language: English
title: Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930
titlecomplete: Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930 (The Architecture of Leisure)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Acanthus Press