America’s Greatest Gardening Partnership Produced This Place
The Blue Steps at Naumkeag, the Stanford White-designed Choate family summer home in the Berkshires.
Regina Cole
There is no better Art Deco garden anywhere in the United States than the Blue Steps at Naumkeag. A series of dark blue painted grottos climb up a steep hillside, connected by stairs and placed against a backdrop of white birch trees. A runnel brings water into the grottos and down to…