The MIT Endicott House is a conference center located in Dedham, Massachusetts, about 10 miles south-west from downtown Boston. The center consists of the Endicott mansion, a Normandy French-style chateau, along with a state-of-the art lecture facility known as the Brooks Center, and 25 acres of gardens, lawn, woods and ponds. Since 1955, when it was given to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Endicott family, it has been owned and operated by MIT. It is one of the oldest such facilities in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Endicott House serves as a meeting facility for many MIT departments and is the primary site of the Senior Executive Program of the MIT Sloan School of Management. The house also hosts conferences and meetings for other educational, medical, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. A non-profit organization ( abbreviated "NPO" also "not-for-profit" is a legally constituted Organization whose objective is to support or engage An organization (or organisation &mdash see spelling differences) is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals which controls its own performance and
The historic Endicott House is equipped with modern conference amenities including state-of-the-art audio and video equipment). Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images
History
Endicott House was designed by Charles Adams Platt and built for H. Charles Adams Platt ( October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was a prominent landscape gardener and architect of the " American Renaissance Wendell Endicott and his wife Priscilla Maxwell Endicott. Much of the grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Frederick Law Olmsted ( April 25, 1822 &ndash August 28, 1903) was an American landscape designer and father of American The Endicotts were involved in every step of building and decorating the home. They commissioned Italian painters to create the intricate designs on the living room's beamed ceiling and imported marble fireplaces for each room. Upon completion in 1934, Mr. & Mrs. Endicott moved in with their two children, Bradford and Priscilla Endicott, and Martha Endicott, Mr. Endicott's daughter by his first wife, Martha Barron, who had died in childbirth.
Mr. Endicott's father, Henry Bradford Endicott was the founder of the Endicott Shoe Company, which maintained a sales office in Boston and a manufacturing plant in Endicott-Johnson City, New York. The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company (" E-J " was a prosperous manufacturer of Shoes based in New York 's Southern Tier, with factories mostly
Endicott House stands on a site previously occupied by "Rockweld," the home of American Civil War hero General Stephen Minot Weld Jr.
Today the house retains much original character and artwork, antiques, oriental rugs, and Flemish tapestries donated by the Endicott family. Gen Stephen Minot Weld Jr (1842–1920 a member of Boston 's illustrious Weld Family, was a horticulturalist and much-decorated U Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Gen Stephen Minot Weld Jr (1842–1920 a member of Boston 's illustrious Weld Family, was a horticulturalist and much-decorated U The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily Visual in nature such as Painting, Photography An antique ( Latin: antiquus; old is an old Collectible item It is collected or desirable because of its age rarity condition utility or other unique An authentic oriental rug is a handmade Carpet that is either knotted with pile or woven without pile Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Tapestry is a form of Textile art. It is woven by hand on a vertical Loom. The gardens are meticulously maintained and fresh flowers from the greenhouses grace the rooms during every season of the year.
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