Places in the Berkshires environs, and a few within a few hours’ drive, related to this story to visit:
The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Merrick Park, Chestnut Street, Springfield
Naumkeag, designed by Stanford White with a bust inside by Saint-Gaudens, Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, thetrustees. org / place / naumkeag
St. Paul’ s Episcopal Church, Main Street, Stockbridge, where the baptistry designed by White is found, stpaulsstockbridge. org
Norman Rockwell Museum, on the old Linwood estate of Charles E. Butler, benefactor of St. Paul’ s Episcopal Church, nrm. org
Ashintully, in Tyringham, where Saint-Gaudens and White’ s old client Henry Adams stayed; designed by Francis Hoppin, protégé of White, thetrustees. org / place / ashintully-gardens
Ventfort Hall, grounds in Lenox where Robert Gould Shaw spent his honeymoon in May 1863, gildedage. org
Chesterwood in Stockbridge, sculptor Daniel Chester French’ s home and Studio owned by the National Trust, chesterwood. org
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park, Cornish, New Hampshire, home( Aspet House), gardens, and studios of Saint-Gaudens, nps. gov / saga
For further reading, Myths and Monuments: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French is the catalog for a 2023- 2025 traveling exhibit co-organized by Chesterwood and the Saint-Gaudens Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire, with the American Federation of Arts.
Thanks to Mark Wilson of Naumkeag and Nick Hudson of The Mount, and to Carl Sprague for his deep knowledge of the treasures of St. Paul’ s Episcopal Church, Stockbridge.
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