Artist/Designer: Ogden Codman, Edith Wharton
Project Location: United States
Style/Period(s):
Colonial Revival
Primary Material(s):
Wood, Paint
Function(s):
Residential Structure
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
20th Century
Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Doumato, Lamia. Ogden Codman, Jr. (1863-1951) : A Bibliography. Architecture Series--bibliography ; A-2259. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1989.
Joslin, Katherine, and Annette Zilversmit. "Edith Wharton at the Mount." College Literature 14, no. 3 (1987): Iii-V.
Kaiser, Mary Ignatius. "Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life." World Literature Today 69, no. 1 (1995): 149-150.
Kathrens, Michael C. Newport Villas : The Revival Styles, 1885-1935. First ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Luria, Sarah. "The Architecture of Manners: Henry James, Edith Wharton, and The Mount." American Quarterly 49, no. 2 (1997): 298-327.
Wharton, Edith, and Codman, Ogden. The Decoration of Houses. Revised and Expanded Classical America ed. Classical America Series in Art and Architecture. New York: Classical America : Arthur Ross Foundation : Norton, 1997.
Wilson, Richard Guy. Edith Wharton at Home : Life at The Mount. First ed. New York, New York: Monacelli Press, 2012.
Building Address: 2 Plunkett Street Lenox, Massachusetts 01240-0974
Significant Dates: Construction Dates ( Unknown - 1902)
Property declared a National Historic Landmark (1971).
Supporting Staff/ Designers:
Edith Wharton (Writer/Designer)
Ogden Codman Jr. (Architect)
Beatrix Jones Farrand (Landscape Architect)
Tags: Colonial Revival, Historic Residential, Neo-Classical
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