About 1915, William Doud Packard built a Jacobean Revival Style Mansion summer home on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution for the incredible sum of $175,000 (more than $5M today). The house was designed by Warren and Wetmore, a famous architectural firm in New York City, New York which was founded by Whitney Warren and Charles Delevan Wetmore in 1897. Warren and Wetmore’s most important work is widely considered to be the construction of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
The house still stands in the Chautauqua Institution and is used as a single-family residence. Local philanthropists, Reginald and Betty Lenna, funded extensive renovation and restoration work on the house.
The Reginald A & Elizabeth S Lenna Foundation was founded in Lakewood in 1985. The focus of the foundation was the areas of the arts, children, economic development, education, environment, historic preservation, and hospitals.
William Doud Packard Mansion – Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY