"Of all the towns that could have played host to New England's first modernist building, Lenox, Mass., is among the least likely. When Mrs. Astor's 400 finished summering at their extravagant, ironically named "cottages" in Newport, R.I., they would shift to Lenox, in the Berkshires, for several more weeks before returning to Manhattan in the fall. Lenox's cottages embraced many architectural styles, but modernism definitely was not among them," writes Art and Antiques journalist Sheila Gibson Stoodley. Read the full article