Disregard this post,
if you want to hear no more about Henry White,
onetime head of the household at this property,
or about the American Peace Commission at the Paris Peace Conference.

I'm still hunting down anything that might substantiate
the rather bold claim that Elm Court, the enormous "cottage"
in Lenox, Massachusetts, hosted informal conversations
with the Allied luminaries from the Great War
before they all went off to Paris to create the League of Nations
and draft the Treaty of Versailles.
So far it all sounds more myth than anything.

A facetious remark by Prime Minister David Lloyd George about his fellow statesmen in Paris:
"The old Tiger wants the Grizzly Bear back in the Rocky Mountains
before he starts tearing up the German Hog."
Tiger -- Clemenceau (France)
Bear -- Wilson (United States)

Henry White, the career diplomat and former ambassador, always gets a name-check in anything about Woodrow Wilson's attendance at the Paris Peace Conference, since White was there with Wilson. But this business about meeting in Massachusetts at White's 'cottage' -- it seems to come under the heading of old-fashioned diplomacy behind the scenes. I have yet to find any serious writer supporting this myth.
It is true, however, that Henry White had a biographer: Allan Nevins wrote a book about him, now long out of print. I'm going to hunt for a copy.