Vanderbilt Mansion Massachusetts Estate For Sale, Luxury MA Architecture Interior Photos
The Vanderbilt Mansion is For Sale
Jan 7, 2021
The Vanderbilt Mansion
Historic Vanderbilt Mansion, Forty-Six Bedrooms – For Sale at $12.5 million
Location: Stockbridge and Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Vanderbilt-Family Home Spans Two Towns

Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
One of America?s most historic homes: a Vanderbilt-family home that played a key role in the creation of the League of Nations is so large that it spans two towns, is the largest American Shingle-Style home in the country, and landscaping designed by Frederick Law Olmstead is now for sale for $12.5 million.

Built in the Berkshires by philanthropist William Douglas Sloane and Emily Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elm Court Estate was designed in 1886 by the architectural firm Peabody & Stearns with the grounds done by Frederick Law Olmstead – well known for his work on New York?s Central Park.
A less ornate style than the Vanderbilt family?s more-famous Biltmore House in North Carolina, the 89-acre Elm Court Estate spans both Stockbridge and Lenox, Massachusetts. Its shingle style evolved from America?s New England architectural movement of the late 1800s modeled after Colonial American architecture.

The home, which is registered as a National Historic Landmark, got its name from a large elm tree that stood at the entrance to the mansion, but later succumbed to disease.

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