The Shadowbrook Fire

Authors

Francis X. Shea
Joseph A. Appleyard S.J.

Files

Description

All physical materials associated with the New England Province Archive are currently held by the Jesuit Archives in St. Louis, MO. Any inquiries about these materials should be directed to the Jesuit Archives . Electronic versions of some items and the descriptions and finding aids to the Archives, which are hosted in CrossWorks, are provided only as a courtesy.

This book tells the story of the March 10, 1956 fire that consumed Shadowbrook, the building that had been the Jesuit novitiate and juniorate of the New England Province of Jesuits for 34 years. The fire destroyed the building, killed four Jesuits, and left approximately 125 Jesuits homeless. The book is based on interviews with survivors and neighbors. It also includes a chapter about the earlier uses of Shadowbrook which was built as a mansion for Anson Phelps Stokes in 1893 and was a vacation home or a resort hotel until 1922 when the Society of Jesus purchased it from the widow of millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie for use during the first four years of Jesuit formation.

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

Elephant Tree Press

City

Watertown, Massachusetts

Keywords

Jesuits, History, New England Province of the Society of Jesus, Shadowbrook fire, March 10, 1956, Shadowbrook Novitiate, Stockbridge, Lenox, Massachusetts, Berkshire County (Mass.)

Disciplines

History | Missions and World Christianity

Comments

Rev. Joseph A. Appleyard, S.J. edited this book.

F.X. Shea wrote the book in the summer of 1956. Some of the chapters were first published in the SJNEws, a publication of the New England Province of Jesuits, in 1973-74.

Shadowbrook was physically located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts with a mailing address in Lenox, Massachusetts.

An online exhibit of photographs and postcards of Shadowbrook is available at: Shadowbrook: Historia Domus.

Recommended Citation

Shea, Francis X. and Appleyard, Joseph A. S.J., "The Shadowbrook Fire" (2009). New England Province History. 4.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/nenprovhistory/4