The Mount/Edith Wharton Restoration P.O. Box 974, 2 Plunkett
Street Lenox, MA 01240 Tel:
413-637-1899
The Edith Wharton Restoration was founded in 1980, and was established
to
bring back the estate to its former grandeur reflecting the life, times, art and ideas of
Edith Wharton. The restoration is unique, in that it is being effected in
an almost "reverse engineered" fashion, using blueprints and Wharton's
own extensive notes and documentation, together with the efforts of
restoration technology specialists and architectural historians,
combining to form a project free from romantic whimsy or uninformed
revisionism. If to visit The Mount is to visit Wharton herself, then a
careful preservation and restoration is crucial for an accurate
assessment of the woman and her work. At the same time, this "work in
progress" is living and breathing, housing the renowned troupe of
Shakespeare and Company, whose summer performances using The Mount itself as a stage, have brought the Bard and Wharton to life for
countless thousands.
The Edith Wharton Restoration was founded in 1980, and was established
to
bring back the estate to its former grandeur reflecting the life, times, art and ideas of
Edith Wharton. The restoration is unique, in that it is being effected in
an almost "reverse engineered" fashion, using blueprints and Wharton's
own extensive notes and documentation, together with the efforts of
restoration technology specialists and architectural historians,
combining to form a project free from romantic whimsy or uninformed
revisionism. If to visit The Mount is to visit Wharton herself, then a
careful preservation and restoration is crucial for an accurate
assessment of the woman and her work. At the same time, this "work in
progress" is living and breathing, housing the renowned troupe of
Shakespeare and Company, whose summer performances using The Mount itself as a stage, have brought the Bard and Wharton to life for
countless thousands.
