

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tea & Talk - Behind Closed Doors of the Berkshire Cottages
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Local historian and author, Cornelia Brooke Gilder, will share the human element of Houses of the Berkshires here at the mansion. A tea will follow her presentation. Through her years of research on country house life in Lenox, Cornelia Brooke Gilder has learned an array of poignant, heartbreaking, inspiring and dastardly human dramas of Gilded Age Lenox. Come hear about the bereft heiress, the disappearing diplomat and the murderous butler. Gilder is co-author, with Richard S. Jackson, of The Houses of the Berkshires, the iconic architectural book first published by Acanthus Press in 2006 and 2011. Twenty years later this talk celebrates its republication. Books are available at the Ventfort Hall gift shop. In addition she authored Edith Wharton’s Lenox; co-authored with Julia Conklin Peters Hawthorne’s Lenox: The Tanglewood Circle, and with Joan Olshansky, A History of Ventfort Hall. Tickets are $45. Members receive $5 off with their discount code. Ticket pricing includes access to the mansion throughout the day of this event from 10 am to 4 pm. Reservations are strongly recommended as seats are limited. Walk-ins accommodated as spa ce allows. For reservation visit https://gildedage.org/pages or call us at (413) 637-3206. Please note that all tickets are nonrefundable and non-exchangeable.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lenox/tea-and-talk-behind-closed-doors-of-the-berkshire-cottages/200029674584406
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 24

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lenox
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01240
- **lat**: 42.35266
- **long**: -73.27946
- **full address**: 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01240

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum (https://allevents.in/org/ventfort-hall-mansion-and-gilded-age-museum/11332576)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01240
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Tea & Talk - Behind Closed Doors of the Berkshire Cottages ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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