The Mount is both an historic site and a gardener’s delight. America’s First Lady of Letters, and pulitzer prize winner, Edith Wharton designed and built The Mount in 1902. The house embodies the principles outlined in her influential book, The Decoration...
With its gracious house, magnificent gardens, and panoramic views, Naumkeag is a quintessential country estate of the Gilded Age. This architectural masterpiece is, at its heart, a family home. Joseph Choate, a leading 19th-century attorney, hired the architectural...