The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-09

of its beauties. 1t is gratifying to be able
to say that no one but Mr.. Choate has
been so ungracious- Every other million
aire at Lenox and Stockbridge keeps an
open shop.
George Westinghouse, who lives on the
same road, makes up for the disappoint-
ment Mr.. Choate confers upon visitors.
People are permitted to drive through
his beautiful estate, which is beyond
comprehension, and everybody who has
had the pleasure thoroughly appreciates
his generosity, as well as the glorious
beauty of his great estate.
He has between five and six thousand
acres in Erskine Park, as he calls it, and
more than two hundred acres in lawn
alone His place Is by far the finest
in Lenox, as well as the most expensive.
The roads are laid with crushed mar
Bile and cross the streams by stone
bridges. such as the Romans used to
build. There is an artificial lake in the
grounds which furnishes water for in
Vulnerable fountains. His mansion,
which overlooks Stockbridge road, is dig
nifted and beautiful, expressive OF his
character, and Mrs. Westinghouse is IA
nous for her hospitality.
The largest house in Lenox. and it is
said to be the largest private residence
in the country except George Wander
bits chateau at Asheville, was recently
sold by Arson Phelps Stokes of New
York to Mr.. Shotter, the turpentine king,
of Savannah. 1t resembles an English
baroniaI mansion and is surrounded by
a large group of cottages for the en-
ployes, stables and other outbuildings
The estate contains nearly 1000 acres
Of land mostly forest through which
roads have been made for driving and
riding. The house overlooks the pic
turesque lake called stockbridge Bowl:
The Stokes family have not occupied It
for several years. According TO local
gossip since Mr.. Stokes met with an ac-
eident on his grounds he cannot be in,
duced TO return. Last year 1t was rented
for hotel purposes and was called Shad-
OVERLOOK Inn. But the rooms are too
large to be profitable and the lease was
not renewed. Then Mr.. Shotter ap-
ambition and bought out Mr.. Stokes at
do Rl''' WHICH "o"lN maintain
Another of the show places is a state
" marble mansion about half a mile
below Lenox village on the Stockbridge
road It belongs to Giraud Foster and
is a splendid specimen Of the Lenox
The family of the late John Sloane of
New York has a very attractive place
called Wyndhurst, which commands the
most beautiful view in Lenox' reachlng
from Graylock or the north. the king
of the Berkshires. to the Catskills on
the south and includes fifty miles or
more of the Hoosatonic valley. Mr.. Sloane
had several thousand acres of land, of
which 100 acres is a very highly Guilt
waited lawn and garden. This place was
formerly owned by Henry Ward Beech
er, who used 10 come here every sum-
mer TO spend his vacation in a modest
little frame cottage, which is now the
home of Mr.. Sloane's gardener
William D Sloane has an even more
beautiful place, If comparisons are pos
sible. about mile south of the village
on the Stockbridge road. He has about
600 acres of park and thirty acres COW
cred with greenhouses and gardens.
on the opposite side of the highway
is the residence of CORTLAND Bishop of
New York, who is the inspiring leader
of a group OF aeronauts. They bring
their balloons ana Tying machines up
Mr. and Mrs. Robert w. Patterson of
Chicago have recently erected a $500.
coo marble villa on a site adjoining the
old Beecher place, now occupied by the
family of the late John Sloane. They