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Canyon Ranch Lenox
Lenox, Massachusetts, United States · Canyon Ranch · Grand Luxury
Canyon Ranch Lenox lives inside Bellefontaine, the 1897 Carrere and Hastings mansion that Giraud Foster built as a Petit Trianon in the Berkshires. A 1949 fire left the outer walls and the library. Mel and Enid Zuckerman reopened the house as Canyon Ranch in 1989, and Michelin has held Two Keys here for 2025 and 2026.
- 126 rooms
- Opened 1989
- Rooms from 364 sq ft (34 m²)
- Architect: Carrere & Hastings
About Canyon Ranch Lenox
- Foster filled the gardens with sculpture brought from France and Italy, one of the most extravagant private collections in America.
- Mel Zuckerman spent $40 million restoring the fire-gutted shell and opened a 100,000-square-foot spa beside the mansion.
- Entry-level rooms start at 364 sq ft (34 m²).
History
The mansion at the center of Canyon Ranch Lenox was among the most admired summer cottages in the Berkshires — itself a region whose late-nineteenth-century cottages were, in the parlance of the Gilded Age, anything but. Bellefontaine, as the estate was known, was designed by the architectural firm Carrere and Hastings — the same office responsible for the New York Public Library — and completed in 1897 for financier Giraud Foster and his wife Jean Van Nest. The white marble and pale brick mansion was modeled on the Petit Trianon at Versailles, approached by a long elm-lined carriage drive interspersed with statuary. Foster surrounded the house with one of the most extravagant sculpture collections in private American hands, importing and commissioning works from France and Italy for the gardens and the inner courtyard. He lived at Bellefontaine until his death in 1945 at the age of ninety-four, the last of the great Gilded Age summer colonists to hold out in Lenox.
His son sold the estate in 1947, and in 1949 a fire gutted most of the interior, leaving only the outer walls and the library standing. The surviving shell passed to the Fathers of Mercy and then served variously as a seminary and a boarding school. Canyon Ranch founders Mel and Enid Zuckerman first encountered the property in its post-fire state, ravaged and neglected, and saw in its bones something worth restoring. Mel Zuckerman had founded the original Canyon Ranch in Tucson in 1979, driven by his own experience of transforming his health through diet, exercise, and integrative medicine. The Lenox location, which opened in 1989, brought that philosophy east, to a setting whose architectural grandeur and Berkshires landscape gave it an entirely different character from the desert campus in Arizona.
Zuckerman spent $40 million restoring Bellefontaine to something close to its original splendor, adding New England-style outbuildings in keeping with the surrounding countryside. The result is a property where the 100,000-square-foot spa complex, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, indoor running track, and clinical wellness programming all exist within sight of one of the finest surviving examples of Gilded Age residential architecture in New England. MICHELIN awarded Canyon Ranch Lenox Two Keys in its 2025 guide, recognition for a property whose combination of serious wellness programming and genuine architectural distinction has no real peer in the American Northeast.
The setting
1.2 miles from Ventfort Hall Mansion (Jacobean-style house.
Restaurants and bars
- Outdoor cafe (The Great Lawn) — Café
Experiences
- Woodland Setting — Explore the resort's interconnected trails through gardens, lawns, fountains, and forest.
- Shinrin Yoku Experience — A guided meditative 'forest bathing' experience to reconnect with nature.
- Lively Arts — Dance with Broadway pros, or get front-row seats to intimate music shows.
- High Ropes Course — Climbing wall, rope course, zip line, and other physical challenges.
- Demo Kitchen — Lively demos and hands-on cooking classes with expert chefs, with take-home recipes.
- Daily aquatic classes — Daily aquatic classes at the outdoor or indoor pool that build strength, balance, and endurance.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
- All-inclusive
Awards
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
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