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The Museum of the Gilded Age at Ventfort Hall

Ventfort Hall was one of the approximately seventy-five so-called “Cottages” built in Lenox in the last century when the village...

The Great Hall approximate date 1894. Courtesy of the Lenox Library.

The interior of the mansion is the most remarkable and elaborate interior in this area. No money was spared in the construction...

Carriage House courtesy of the Lenox Library.

Hidden in the woods at the far end of the property is a romantic gabled Carriage House.

Preserve - the work of restoration and repair

Immediately after the purchase, Ventfort Hall Association, Inc. began to repair the massive roof of the mansion and to study the...

On June 13, 1997, with the encouragement and support of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, who listed Ventfort Hall among...

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The Museum of the Gilded Age at Ventfort Hall
104 Walker St Lenox MA 01240
Tel: (413) 637-3206
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Ventfort Hall is an imposing Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1893 for Sarah Morgan, the sister of J. P. Morgan. Designed by the architects Rotch & Tilden, it is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and declared an official project of “Save America’s Treasures,” a Millennium program of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Ventfort Hall is the home of The Museum of the Gilded Age.