Gilded Age Tudor Manor on the Wyndhurst Estate
55 Lee Rd, Lenox, MA 01240
Age
Adults Only at Miraval Berkshires (18+); Wyndhurst Manor & Club operates separately on the same property.
Cost
$$$$
All-inclusive resort pricing at Miraval Berkshires. Wyndhurst Manor & Club rates vary by season.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Mostly paved estate roads with some hilly walks across the 380-acre grounds.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1894 · Gilded Age Berkshires Estate · Harriet Beecher Stowe Connection · Hyatt Miraval Acquisition
The estate now encompassing Miraval Berkshires and Wyndhurst Manor & Club was assembled during the late nineteenth century, when wealthy industrialists built summer 'cottages' across the Berkshires. The hilltop Tudor-style manor that anchors the property was completed during this Gilded Age period, and the grounds expanded to roughly 380 acres of fields, woods, and outbuildings. One of the surviving cottages on the property was at one time occupied by author Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was already a generation old by the time she lived in Lenox.
For much of the twentieth century the estate operated under various ownerships before reopening as the Cranwell Resort, Spa & Golf Club. In 2010 a 100-year-old carriage house on the grounds was destroyed in a fire that began in a void between its first and second floors; nineteen mutual-aid fire departments responded but the dry timber-framed structure could not be saved.
In 2017 Hyatt Corporation, through its Miraval wellness-resort subsidiary, acquired the property for more than $20 million. Following an extensive renovation, the resort reopened in July 2020 under two parallel brands: Miraval Berkshires, an adults-only all-inclusive wellness retreat that became the Miraval brand's first East Coast property, and Wyndhurst Manor & Club, which restored the historic manor under its original estate name.
Sources
The Shadowlands Haunted Places Index entry referenced a single anecdote: an eleven-year-old girl with the surname Sloane said to have died of disease at the property, with reports of unusual sounds heard near a tavern building. The Sloane family did own the original Wyndhurst estate — John W. Sloane and his wife Adela of the W. & J. Sloane Furniture Company built the Tudor manor in 1894 — but no independent corroboration of a child Sloane's death at the property appears in regional news archives, Berkshire historical society publications, or the published Sloane family record. The aggregator anecdote may be a folkloric conflation of the Sloane family name with a generic ghost-child motif.
Because the original folklore is unverifiable and the property is now a flagship Hyatt wellness resort, this entry is presented for completeness rather than as a paranormal destination. Guests visit Miraval Berkshires and Wyndhurst Manor & Club for the historic Gilded Age architecture and the Berkshires landscape.
The former Cranwell Resort reopened in 2020 as Miraval Berkshires (an all-inclusive adults-only wellness resort) alongside Wyndhurst Manor & Club, which restored the Gilded Age Tudor mansion at the heart of the 380-acre estate. A historic cottage on the grounds was once occupied by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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