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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