LENOX, Mass. — The Board of Directors of Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum elected two new officers.

 

The Board of directors voted at their annual meeting on Friday, Aug. 21 to elect two new officers: Susan Moyle Lynch of Troy, N.Y. as Secretary/Clerk and Karen Spies of Lenox as Treasurer. 

 

Officers re-elected were Kelly Blau of Pittsfield, President an Holly Dobbins of Lenox, Vice President.

 

Joining the board are new members Kate Baisley of Lee, Geoffrey Brown of Lenox and Helen Charboneau of Pittsfield. Kate Baisley is also a volunteer docent at Ventfort Hall. Helen Charboneau, who recently retired and relocated to Pittsfield, was formerly the IT Director at the Wellesley Free Library in Wellesley. Geoffrey Brown is the son of the late Dr. Robert and Marcia Brown and the family has been involved in the restoration of Ventfort Hall.

 

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council as an important partner of the Lenox Cultural District, one of the five such Berkshire County districts, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum was built in 1893 for George and Sarah Morgan, the sister of legendary financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

 

Tours of the historic mansion are offered as well as talks, such exhibitions as the Bellefontaine Collection, concerts, theater and other programs. This elegant Jacobean-Revival Berkshire "cottage" is available for private rental.  Ventfort Hall, also an Official Project of Save America's Treasures program sponsored by The White House, has undergone substantial restoration, which continues.