The private estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, sat nestled among the rolling hills of the Berkshires, surrounded by two hundred acres of ancient sugar maples, hemlocks, and stone-walled meadows. Originally built in 1902 as a summer sanctuary for a prominent Gilded Age naturalist, the property featured a magnificent stone manor house with twelve bedrooms, hand-carved oak paneling, eight fireplaces, and a broad wraparound terrace overlooking the distant mountains. Vivian Mercer had…
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