page_title: Lenox, Massachusetts
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Lenox, Massachusetts / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Congregational Church, Lenox, MA; from a c. 1910 postcard. The Church on the Hill was built in 1805 by Benjamin D. Goodrich, and dedicated January 1, 1806.
context_page_description: Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Set in Western Massachusetts, it is part of the Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,025 at the 2010 census. Lenox is the site of Shakespeare & Company and Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Lenox includes the villages of New Lenox and Lenoxdale, and is a tourist destination during the summer.
context_section_description: Astor family
  Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and social reformer
  Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
  Giraud Foster, socialite and industrialist
  David Greetham, textual scholar
  Frank T. Hassa, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
  Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
  Fanny Kemble, actress and writer
  George M. Landers, congressman
  Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, social worker
  Yo-Yo Ma, musician
  Bernadette Mayer, poet
  Nicole Miller, fashion designer
  George Morell, jurist
  Charles Henry Parkhurst, Congregational minister
  John Paterson, general and congressman
  Gilmore Schjeldahl, American businessman and inventor
  Catharine Sedgwick, writer
  William L. Shirer, journalist and historian
  Maureen Stapleton, actress
  Anson Phelps Stokes, financier
  James Taylor, singer-songwriter and guitarist
  Vanderbilt family
  George Westinghouse, industrialist
  Edith Wharton, writer
  Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, Episcopal clergyman
  James Van Der Zee, photographer
  Grenville Lindall Winthrop, art collector and philanthropist
  Mark Zeltser, musician
caption: Church on the Hill c. 1910
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