Blantyre (estate)
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History

After Paterson’s death, his widow sold Blantyre Cottage in 1925, at which point it became a clubhouse for a golf course that had been built on the property. In 1938, Hollywood film director
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purchased the property, thinking it might become a movie studio, although that idea was never realized. In 1944, Henry and Babette de Sola Mendes purchased Blantyre from the Lenox National Bank and converted the property into a hotel for the area's many summer visitors, including concertgoers and performers at
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, the summer music festival which had been established in 1940. Conductor Leonard Bernstein stayed there several times, and in more recent years
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and John Williams. Guests also included parents of campers at Watitoh, a summer camp that the Mendes family had established in nearby Becket, Mass. Henry Mendes sold Blantyre in the 1960s, after which it passed through several hands until in 1980 it was purchased by Jack and Jane Fitzpatrick, owners of the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass. The Fitzpatricks added many amenities, converting Blantyre into a luxury resort. Later, the Fitzpatricks’ daughter, JoAnn Fitzpatrick Brown, took over its management, continuing in that role until her death in 2016. In June 2017, Blantyre was purchased by Linda Law, a
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and
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, for $8 million.


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