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Lenox Inn :: Massachusetts Lodging
Welcome to Hampton Terrace
Imagine. It is the turn
of the century. Your business has joined the tidal wave of the
industrial revolution. Your financial success brings social
responsibilities. In your home town of Philadelphia, Boston,
New York or Albany, you have built a home worthy of
entertaining your peers, joined the "club," and support
charity teas, balls and cotillions.
But your town's social “season” takes an annual mid-summer
pause. What are you to do?
 Any self-respecting
American industrialist and his socially astute spouse would move
turn-key into their summer home, with full staff. And word is
that Lenox, Massachusetts is where the Astors, Morgans,
Vanderbilts, Westinghouses, Tappans and Carnegies are all
building summer cottages.
Never mind that the average “cottage” has minimum 20 rooms
and 30 acres. This is the life that Edith Wharton is
immortalizing in her new novels.

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