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The Mount was the home of Pulitzer-prize winning author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and gardens with the same intelligence and sensitivity that distinguishes her writing. Edith Wharton created her gardens as architectural compositions, divided into rooms, and planned in concert with the house and surrounding natural landscape.
The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires. Historic Tours, Weddings, Music, Events, Outdoor Sculpture, Cafe. Close to Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Co., Red Lion Inn
Gilded Age gardens. Edith Wharton designed the house and grounds here — open woodlands carpeted with ferns, fountains and flower beds and a long walk of linden trees. I’ve heard she loved ostrich ferns, and when she found them on her neighbors’ lands she would dig up (with their permission) and carry them home in the buggy to plant under ...
Nov 27, 2021 · Self-guided house tours featuring festive decorations are available Saturdays and Sundays, November 27 through January 2 (closed Christmas weekend). The Mount is a Massachusetts Cultural Council UP designated organization welcoming participants of all disabilities. Please contact The Mount at 413-551-5100 or by email, info@edithwharton.org, to ...
Aug 27, 2017 · For more than 30 years, the Summer Lecture Series has brought insightful presentations highlighting recent works of memoir and biography to The Mount. Sales for all lectures will open for Mount Members on Friday, May 10, and to the general public on Wednesday, May 15 on our website: edithwharton.org. We look forward to seeing you for another ...
Specialties: The Mount is both a historic site and a cultural destination inspired by the passions and achievements of Edith Wharton. Designed and built by Edith Wharton in 1902, the house embodies the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration of Houses (1897). The property includes three acres of formal gardens designed by Wharton, who was also an authority on European ...
- 2 Plunkett St Lenox, MA 01240
The Mount. 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. Built in 1902 for the doyenne of Gilded Age literature, Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Aside from a Pulitzer -Prize winning talent for writing, she also had a distinct flair for design; and, The Mount was very much an expression of her classical tastes. She recalled her home: "On a slope ...
