Chateau Fairmount

  1. Galleries / The people of Chateau Fairmount

    People

    The people of the house, hung together as they never were in life: the families who lived here from 1883, the men who built the house and its stable, the tenants and residents of the apartment and rest-home years, and the house today. Like Sargent’s portraits of its architect and landscape architect at Biltmore, the builders hang with the family. Press a portrait to read who they were.

    Each frame says what its picture is. Portraits restored, colorized or painted with AI carry the ✦ mark, and the original is one click away in the full-size view. Where no likeness has been found, the frame holds a period silhouette, which is a placeholder and not a portrait. Oil-painted versions of these portraits, after the photographs, will be hung as they are finished.

  2. 1839–1912An artist’s rendition after his 1912 newspaper portrait ✦

  3. 1847–1912Portrait not yet found

  4. b. 1844An artist’s rendition after his 1896 portrait ✦

  5. 1854–1903Restored from a 1903 newspaper drawing (Lowell Sun, August 10, 1903) ✦

  7. 1828–1896Portrait not yet found

  8. 1828–1892Portrait not yet found

  9. 1855–1894We’re researching whether this portrait shows Clara Bonney Lilley or her daughter, Clara Bonney Lilley Dunbar. ✦

  10. 1851–1921An artist’s rendition after a 1913 photograph ✦

  11. 1894–1976An artist’s rendition after her 1915 college yearbook portrait ✦

  12. 1879–1967Portrait not yet found

  13. 1864–1949From a portrait of about 1911 ✦

  14. 1873–1958Portrait not yet found

  15. 1871–1954From a 1908 portrait

  16. b. 1891An artist’s rendition from a 1944 photograph ✦

  17. 1917–2004Enhanced from a later-life photograph ✦

  18. 1955–2025A painted portrait from a photograph ✦

  19. A costume portrait in 1880s style ✦

  20. Perry Chaffee and his dance partner Sherri, a costume portrait in 1880s style ✦

More galleries: Neighbors · Belvidere · Lowell · Castles. The frames, wallpaper, paneling and floor are modern designs made with AI for these galleries; they do not show the house’s own rooms. If you have a photograph of anyone or anything shown here as a placeholder, we would be glad to hear from you through the contact page.