Greylock FCU Eyes Sales Of Edith Wharton Home

LENOX, Mass. – Greylock FCU has been chosen as one of two local institutions to arrange financing for an auction of the summer home of novelist Edith Wharton, known as the Gables.

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The Gables, formerly known as Pine Acres, was originally built in 1885 as the summer home for the family of Pulitzer Prize winner, Edith Wharton. As depicted in many of Wharton’s novels including The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, the grandiose lifestyles of the wealthy were a cornerstone of the Berkshires, in western Massachusetts, in the 19th century.

Online bidding was provided by Proxibid and financing options are available through Greylock and United Country Home Mortgage.

 

  

 


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