This is the house we've lived and worked in for the past 38 years.
We fell in love with it when we first saw that sweeping porch, and envisioned summer afternoons and lemonades. This house has been all we fantasized, and more—a soothing home, inspiring studio and welcoming inn for relatives and friends to stay. It's no overstatement to say that this house has been a member of our family.
After all these years, though, we want to move to California, to live near our only child. So our beloved house is on the market. At the bottom of this page, you'll find a PDF of the brochure about the house and grounds, as well a link to our realtor's website.
But first, a few comments: This house was built in 1840—during its long life, it's been a sheep farm, a rooming house, a country estate, a music school and since 1971, our home and studio. It sits on twelve beautiful acres in Monterey, Massachusetts, in south Berkshire County.
The Berkshires have been a cultural mecca ever since Nathaniel Hawthorne convinced his buddy Herman Melville to join him out here to write in peace and quiet. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has its summer season here; we have world class dance and music, year-round professional theater companies, great restaurants and museums, charming little towns, beautiful scenery and interesting, cosmopolitan people. We're three hours from both New York and Boston; one hour from two international airports (Albany and Hartford).
Monterey is one of the coolest towns in this cool county. We came here without knowing that—it's just where the house we fell in love with happened to be. But Monterey truly is a great place. It's pretty, of course, with miles of wooded hills and two lovely lakes. But, as an old Monterey song says, "'Tis the people that make the place." When you go for coffee at our 1780 general store, or attend a community dinner, your tablemates might be a movie actress, an investment banker, a fine artist, craft jeweler or potter, a college professor, a race car mechanic, a landscaper/gardener—all sharing small town camaraderie in such a way that you can't guess which person arrived in the silver Mercedes and which in the rusty pick-up.
If you're looking for a relaxing country retreat, a place to live and work, raise a family, or enjoy an interesting and satisfying retirement, this might be just the ticket.
Check out the slide show below, the brochure PDF, and the realtor's website.
We fell in love with it when we first saw that sweeping porch, and envisioned summer afternoons and lemonades. This house has been all we fantasized, and more—a soothing home, inspiring studio and welcoming inn for relatives and friends to stay. It's no overstatement to say that this house has been a member of our family.
After all these years, though, we want to move to California, to live near our only child. So our beloved house is on the market. At the bottom of this page, you'll find a PDF of the brochure about the house and grounds, as well a link to our realtor's website.
But first, a few comments: This house was built in 1840—during its long life, it's been a sheep farm, a rooming house, a country estate, a music school and since 1971, our home and studio. It sits on twelve beautiful acres in Monterey, Massachusetts, in south Berkshire County.
The Berkshires have been a cultural mecca ever since Nathaniel Hawthorne convinced his buddy Herman Melville to join him out here to write in peace and quiet. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has its summer season here; we have world class dance and music, year-round professional theater companies, great restaurants and museums, charming little towns, beautiful scenery and interesting, cosmopolitan people. We're three hours from both New York and Boston; one hour from two international airports (Albany and Hartford).
Monterey is one of the coolest towns in this cool county. We came here without knowing that—it's just where the house we fell in love with happened to be. But Monterey truly is a great place. It's pretty, of course, with miles of wooded hills and two lovely lakes. But, as an old Monterey song says, "'Tis the people that make the place." When you go for coffee at our 1780 general store, or attend a community dinner, your tablemates might be a movie actress, an investment banker, a fine artist, craft jeweler or potter, a college professor, a race car mechanic, a landscaper/gardener—all sharing small town camaraderie in such a way that you can't guess which person arrived in the silver Mercedes and which in the rusty pick-up.
If you're looking for a relaxing country retreat, a place to live and work, raise a family, or enjoy an interesting and satisfying retirement, this might be just the ticket.
Check out the slide show below, the brochure PDF, and the realtor's website.
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Link to the Benchmark Real Estate web site:
http://www.benchmarkintheberkshires.com/schick.html
http://www.benchmarkintheberkshires.com/schick.html
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