{"nrhp_refnum":"71000900","name":"Mount, The","other_names":["Edith Wharton Estate"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Lenox on U.S. 7","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lenox","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.331553186000065,"lon":-73.28081460232664,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-11-11","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1971-11-11","areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Mount is Edith Wharton's estate in Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, built in 1901 or 1902 for the Whartons. It includes a large white stucco main house in the style of Christopher Wren, a gatehouse, a stable and terraced gardens on about 100 acres.","why_significant":"The estate is tied to Edith Wharton, one of the finest American novelists of the early twentieth century. Several of her best books were written while she spent much of each year there. The house survives in relatively unchanged condition with a high degree of historical integrity.","narrative":"Set on roughly 100 acres in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Mount is the estate built around 1901-1902 for novelist Edith Wharton and her husband. The main house is a white stucco building in the style of Christopher Wren, with quoins, a modified hipped roof, a rooftop deck between four chimneys and a central cupola. A stucco gatehouse and stable stand to the north, and terraced formal gardens lie east and south of the house. Wharton lived here from June to December until about 1909, then used it less often until she sold it around her 1913 divorce. Several of her best books were written during these years, and she later called it her first home. The house has seen modest changes, including added fire escapes, a new staircase and altered dormers, yet it retains a high degree of integrity. It later served as a school dormitory, with the gatehouse and stable housing employees.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Large white stucco house built in the style of Christopher Wren","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained in good condition; the main house is used as a dormitory and the gatehouse and stable as employee residences. A section of the courtyard brick wall has recently collapsed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.754278-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7936/63793643/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/71000900_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000900/f3bdebb511-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000900/f3bdebb511-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mount_from_the_Flower_Garden_by_David_Dashiell.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mount_from_the_Flower_Garden_by_David_Dashiell.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793643","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mount_(Lenox,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7752461"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/mount-the-71000900/"}