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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 country house designed principally by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White , and constructed in 1885 and ...
The Mission House is an historic house located at 19 Main Street, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was built between 1741 and 1742 by a Christian missionary to the local Mahicans . It is a National Historic Landmark , designated in 1968 as a rare surviving example of a colonial mission house.
The house was just the first of 14 structures that the architect built on the property, now named a National Historic Landmark, over a span of 50 years. ... Naumkeag in Berkshires, Massachusetts.
Naumkeag, an estate in Stockbridge designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White in 1885 for Joseph Hodges Choate. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250.
A year-round resort area, Stockbridge is home to the Norman Rockwell Museum, Naumkeag, a public garden and historic house, the Austen Riggs Center (a psychiatric treatment center), and Chesterwood, home and studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French.
Choate was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1832. [1] He was the son of Margaret Manning (née Hodges) Choate and physician George Choate.Among his siblings were William Gardner Choate, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck Choate, [3] and a sister, Caroline Choate [4] (von Gersdorff).
A postcard, circa 1930 or 1940, showing the kitchen in the Governor's Faire House in Pioneer Village. Pioneer Village, also known as Salem 1630: Pioneer Village, is a living history museum recreating the city of Salem as it was in the 17th century. Opened in June 1930, it was the first museum of its kind in the United States.
Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate and her husband Joseph Hodges Choate at their summer house, Naumkeag. The family bought a forty-nine-acre country estate, known as Naumkeag in the Berkshires. The 44-room "cottage" was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. The grounds were originally laid out by Nathan Franklin Barrett. The Choate ...