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Steepletop is a 500-acre (200 ha) estate on a hilly, wooded area in the northeastern corner of the town near the Massachusetts state line. Although located within the range of the Taconic Mountains, the area is adjacent to the Berkshire Hills and is considered part of the cultural region of the Berkshires, known for its rich diversity in music, arts and recreation.
In August 2005, the estate - with the manor house, greenhouse, carriage house and cottage - was placed on the market for sale for an asking price of $21,500,000 on 90 acres (360,000 m 2). [8] By comparison the highest price for any Berkshire County property sold was recorded January, 2007 for Southmayd Farm for $6.9 million [ 9 ]
Harold Samuel Nicolaes Maes, Young Woman Sewing, 1655, from the Samuel collection on the cover of the catalogue prepared by Peter C. Sutton.. Harold Samuel, Baron Samuel of Wych Cross (23 April 1912 – 28 August 1987) was the British founder of Land Securities, one of the United Kingdom's largest property companies.
William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom I Love Lucy. Frawley also played "Bub" O'Casey during the first five seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons and the political advisor to the Hon. Henry X. Harper ( Gene Lockhart ) in the film ...
The Robert Treat Paine Estate, known as Stonehurst, is a country house set on 109 acres (44 ha) in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was designed for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine (1835–1910) in a collaboration between architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted .
It consists of the large group of 18th to 21st century agricultural and estate properties with farmland, gardens, residences, and landscapes of the Hunnewell and Welles families. The properties in the Historic District are still largely owned and occupied by members of the Hunnewell family.
The city acquired the 82 acres (33 ha) remnant of the Brooks estate after the death of Shepherd Brooks' wife Clara in 1939. After the Second World War, the city used the estate to provide housing for veterans, and in the 1960s and 1970s it was used as a nursing home. From the 1970s through the late 1980s, the Manor building was used as a group ...
The estate was passed on to his niece, Eleanor Cabot (daughter of his brother, Godfrey Lowell Cabot), who married Major Ralph Bradley in 1919. [4] In 1945, she added ponds, a camellia house and greenhouse, and planted specimen trees.