Lenox, MA - Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum has received the Best Foot Forward Façade Improvement Grant awarded by 1Berkshire with funding support from the Massachusetts Office of Business Development in the amount of $800. The grant will be used to plant flowers and beautify the front entryway to the mansion.

Volunteer docent, Kim Jakobowicz, has been working on a plan for getting our gardens attended to along with volunteer docents Paula Blagg, Catherine Laird, Daniel Schenker and board Vice President Holly Dobbins. If you would like to be on our gardening committee please email us at [email protected]. The historical mansion is located at 104 Walker St., Lenox, MA.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council as an important partner of the Lenox Cultural District, one of the five such Berkshire County districts, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum was built in 1893 for George and Sarah Morgan, the sister of legendary financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

Self-guided tours of the historic mansion are offered daily, as well as Tea & Talks, such exhibitions as the Bellefontaine Collection, concerts, theater, ghost tours and hunts as well as other programs. This elegant Jacobean-Revival Berkshire “cottage” is open to the public year-round and is available for private rental.  Ventfort Hall, also an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures program sponsored by The White House, has undergone substantial restoration, which continues.