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Shadow Brook Farm Historic District

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The replacement building, 400 yards (370 m) west of Shadowbrook's ruins, was completed and in use by 1958 "with a nondescript brick and concrete exterior and much painted cinderblock inside" according to Shea. An editor's postscript to Shea's work notes that in 1970 the novitiate moved to the
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Shadowbrook's main house was destroyed in a fire on March 9, 1956, that claimed the lives of four of its 150 residents. Two more residents subsequently died of injuries from the incident. Because of the building's high cost for upkeep and other practical difficulties, architectural plans for its
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Stokes bought the property in 1892 along with additional land to the south and north, assembling an estate of 1,500 acres (610 ha). The Oakwood building was demolished except for its east wing, and Stokes built his mansion on a ledge 100 yards (90 m) west and 30 feet (9 m) lower. The new
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structure, completed in 1893 at a cost of $ 500,000, was shaped like the letter 'L' with its point aimed south and comprised two dominant styles involving English Tudor timbering and stone. The vista from the main house included a view to the south of
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replacement had already been made prior to the fire. These designs were criticized by a number of senior Jesuit residents at the time, one of whom described the new building as "a monumental mediocrity."
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Carnegie had purchased what was regarded at the time to be the second largest private residence in the United States. The estate was among the most prominent examples of the
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member leased the property briefly in 1916 following her husband's death, and the mansion was sold in 1916 by Shotter's debtors to Andrew Carnegie for $ 300,000.
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in 1844 purchased land on the slopes of Baldhead and built a mansion near the site of what was to become Shadowbrook. Ward named his mansion Oakwood.
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that includes six re-purposed farm buildings related to the former 'Shadowbrook' mansion destroyed by fire in 1956. Designed by architect
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from 1922 until 1970. Following the fire, a non-equivalent structure of the same name took its place and currently is home to the
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originated the name "Shadow Brook" in reference to a small stream that lies to the west and south of the mansion site.
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Houses of the Berkshires Richard S. Jackson and Cornelia Brooke Gilder Acanthus Press 2011, pp. 44–49.
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Houses of the Berkshires, Richard S. Jackson and Cornelia Brooke Gilder Acanthus Press 2011, p 159
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acquired the property three years later to serve as a novitiate for training Jesuit priests.
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from the Stokes family in 1963. The historic district was added to the
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area. The building then stood empty until 1983 when it was sold to a
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acquired Shadowbrook in 1917 and died there in 1919. It served as a
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Andrew Carnegie: Industrial Giant and Philanthropist
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Shadowbrook
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

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Shadow Brook Farm Historic District is located in Massachusetts
Shadow Brook Farm Historic District is located in the United States
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
42°20′42.86″N 73°19′34.74″W / 42.3452389°N 73.3263167°W / 42.3452389; -73.3263167
Berkshires
88000202
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
historic district
H. Neill Wilson
Frederick Law Olmsted
Anson Phelps Stokes
Andrew Carnegie
Jesuit
novitiate
Kripalu Center
Berkshire Country Day School
campus
National Register of Historic Places
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel Gray Ward

Stockbridge Bowl
Monument Mountain
Mount Everett
riding

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