It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[2] and until July 2012 was owned and operated as a hotel by descendants of the original owners.
The Wildes - who also owned the neighboring 1,300-acre (5.3 km2) High Lawn manor (designed by Delano and Aldrich) and farm[5] - pursued the Inn concept in order to preserve the estate and provide summer employment for the area's many teachers.
Unoccupied, secluded, and only lightly patrolled, it fell prey over the years to massive vandalism, outright looting, some arson, and a general derelict state by the end of the 20th century.
A. Berle (1937–2007), was a highly respected environmentalist, New York State assemblyman, commissioner of the State Department of Environmental Conservation and president of the National Audubon Society[7] She in turn sold the estate in 1999 to her son, Robert Berle, great-great-grandson of the Sloanes, and his wife, Sonya, for just under $1 million.
[8] By comparison the highest price for any Berkshire County property sold was recorded January, 2007 for Southmayd Farm for $6.9 million[9] The property's asking price was reduced to $17.5 million in July 2006 and a contract was signed for sale to a Florida-based hotel business ('The Kessler Collection').
In July 2012 it was announced that the property in its entirety (55,000-square foot mansion on 89 acres) was sold to a Colorado-based group for $9.8 million for a proposed 112-room hotel, which included a spa and restaurant component.