America's
Gilded Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age was an era extending roughly from 1877 to 1900, which was sandwiched between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Weste ...
, the post-
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
and post-
Reconstruction
Reconstruction may refer to:
Politics, history, and sociology
*Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company
*'' Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Unio ...
era, from 1865 to 1901 saw unprecedented economic and industrial prosperity. As a result of this prosperity, the nation's wealthiest families were able to construct monumental country estates in the
Berkshires
The Berkshires () are a highland geologic region located in the western parts of Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut. The term "Berkshires" is normally used by locals in reference to the portion of the Vermont-based Green Mountains that ex ...
in
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History
Although most uses of 'cottage' imply a small house, the use of the word in this context refers to an alternative definition, "a summer residence (often on a large and sumptuous scale)".
Cottages
Approximately seventy-six estates were built in
Lenox and
Stockbridge,
, including:
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Allen Winden
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Ashintully
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Beaupré
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Bellefontaine
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Belvoir Terrace
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Blantyre
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Bluestone Manor
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Bonnie Brae
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Breezy Corners
* Brookhurst
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Brookside Brookside may refer to:
Geography Canada
* Brookside, Edmonton
* Brookside, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Brookside, Nova Scotia
United Kingdom
* Brookside, Berkshire, England
* Brookside, Telford, an area of Telford, England
United States
* Br ...
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Cherry Hill
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Chesterwood
Chesterwood is a hamlet in Northumberland, in England. It is situated a short distance to the north-west of Haydon Bridge on the South Tyne, west of Hexham. It includes a number of "Bastle Houses" from the 17th Century, originally built to prot ...
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Clipston Grange
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Coldbrook
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Deepdene
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Eastover
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Edgewood Edgewood may refer to:
Places Canada
*Edgewood, British Columbia
South Africa
*Edgewood, a University of KwaZulu-Natal campus in Pinetown, South Africa
United States Cities and towns
*Edgewood, California
*Edgewood, Florida
*Edgewood, Illinois, a ...
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Elm Court
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Erskine Park
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Groton Place Groton may refer to:
Places
England
*Groton, Suffolk
**Groton Wood
United States
*Groton, Connecticut, a town
**Groton (city), Connecticut, within the town
*Groton, Massachusetts, a town
**Groton (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the tow ...
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Gusty Gables
Gusty may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People
* Gusty Bausch (born 1980), Luxembourgian cyclo-cross cyclist
* Gusty Spence (1933–2011), a leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force
* Grégoire Laurent (1906–1985), Luxembourgian boxer also known as "Gusty"
* G ...
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High Lawn
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
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Kellogg Terrace
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Lakeside
Lakeside or Lake Side may refer to:
Places Australia
* Lakeside College, Pakenham, Victoria
* Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City, Joondalup, Western Australia
* Lakeside, near Reservoir, Victoria
* Lakeside International Raceway, Pine Rivers, Quee ...
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Merrywood
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Naumkeag
Naumkeag is the former country estate of noted New York City lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate and Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate, located at 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The estate's centerpiece is a 44-room, Shingle Style c ...
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Nestledown
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Norwood
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Oakwood
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Orleton
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The v ...
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Oronoque
Oronoque is an unincorporated community in Norton County, Kansas, United States.
History
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* Overlee
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Pine Acre
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Pine Needles
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Rock Ridge
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Searles Castle
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Shadowbrook
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Spring Lawn
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Stonover
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Summerwood
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Sunnyridge
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Tanglewood
Tanglewood is a music venue in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. Tanglewood is also home to three music schools: the T ...
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The Homestead
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The Mount
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Valleyhead
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Ventfort Hall
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum is a historic, Jacobean-style mansion and museum located at 104 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors can tour the mansion and lear ...
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Villa Virginia
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Wheatleigh
Wheatleigh is a historic country estate on West Hawthorne Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1893 to a design by Peabody and Stearns, it is one of the few surviving great Berkshire Cottages of the late 19th century, with ...
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Windyside
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Wyndhurst
See also
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List of Gilded Age mansions
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States.
These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great for ...
References
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External links
The Museum of the Gilded Age at Ventfort HallBob Vila tour of Berkshire cottages
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts culture
Buildings and structures in Lenox, Massachusetts
Houses in Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Gilded Age