Lenox Town Hall - Lenox MA - City and Town Halls on Waymarking.com

The Colonial Revival style two-story high Lenox Town Hall was built in 1901 to a design by architect George C. Harding. The building has an asphalt shingle covered hipped roof with overhanging eaves. The red brick building has white stone trim. The center of the roof has a square tower with a balustrade railing, a cupola with a gilded dome supported by four Ionic columns.

The façade is seven bays wide and features a central portico entrance with the inscription TOWN HALL above the entrance. Four fluted Corinthian columns support the pediment above the entrance. The lower level contains a pair of matching piasters behind the end columns. Each bay flanking the entrance has a 4 by 3 multi-paned double hung window each with a with white sash and keystone lintel. The second story has seven matching windows except there are no keystones on the lintels.

The sides of the projecting front are three bays wide. Each bay has windows that match those on the front on both the lower and upper levels. The first bay on the southeast side, however, contains an auxiliary portico entrance with a pediment supported by a pair of Doric columns. The rear has a one story high extension which is six bays deep.

Lenox is a town in south-central Berkshire county in western Massachusetts. According to the 2020 census the town has 5095 permanent residents. Since it is located in a scenic area of the Berkshire and there are many cultural attractions, the town has a tradition of attracting wealthy summer residents from the New York City area.

Attractions include the Tanglewood Music Festival which hosts concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra throughout the summer. The Shakespeare & Company theater group presents plays by Shakespeare and other playwrights during the summer season. The Museum of the Gilded Age at Ventfort Hall and The Mount, the home designed and built by novelist Edith Wharton, operate all year long.