Naumkeag
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- Naumkeag is also an old name for what is now Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
Naumkeag is a 44 room, shingle-style country house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA in the Berkshires. It is now operated by The Trustees of Reservations as a nonprofit museum.
Naumkeag was designed by noted architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White in 1885 as the summer estate for Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), a prominent New York City attorney and American ambassador to England 1899 to 1905, and then his daughter, Mabel Choate. The house has 8 acres (32,000 m²) of terraced gardens and landscaped grounds surrounded by 40 acres (162,000 m²) of woodland, meadow, and pasture. Its grounds were first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, then replanned and expanded between 1926 and 1956 by Fletcher Steele.
The house contains the Choate family's furniture, Chinese porcelain, and artwork collected from America, Europe, and the Far East.
Naumkeag was designated in April 2007 by U.S. Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark.
