LENOX, Mass. — Ventfort Hall has been awarded a FY2025 Destination Development Capital (DDC) Grant of $55,000 from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism for excavating, re-building, re-surfacing, and adding lighting to the driveway and visitor parking area. 

 

This grant was matched with a donation by Louis Schroeter.

 

These areas have deteriorated over time due to extremes of heat, cold, and ice causing potholes and muddy conditions, and sometimes rendering parts of the parking lot unusable. At the same time, restoration efforts and expanded programming have increased visitation, requiring greater parking capacity.

 

Located in the Lenox cultural district close to local inns, restaurants, stores, theater, and music venues, Ventfort Hall attracts more than 11,000 visitors to the town each year. Since rescuing it from destruction in 1997, the Ventfort Hall Association has maintained and continued to restore this landmark estate, a magnificent example of early 20th century architecture and a museum dedicated to the history of the Gilded Age, a significant period in the history of Lenox.