Founded by Aileen M. Farrell in 1930 on the Foxhollow Farm in Rhinebeck, New York.
The school was moved to the Lenox, Massachusetts former estate of the Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt family.
[1] Miss Farrell was a British citizen and Oxford University graduate, who never sought American citizenship.
The costs of maintaining these grand Berkshire Cottages and their sprawling grounds was one of the contributing causes of their closures.
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