<p>The Armstrong House is a historic house located in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1875, it is a well-preserved example of a locally idiosyncratic Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 25, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Armstrong House is located on a residential street on the north side of North Adams, on the east side of Brooklyn Street. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a low hip roof supported by decorative brackets at the corners and studded with modillion blocks. Its main entrance is in the leftmost bay, with a portico that is also bracketed, with 20th-century columns and balustrade that are sympathetic to its Italianate style. A single-story polygonal bay projects from the right side of the main block. A two-story ell extends to the rear, connecting the house to a barn that is of the same vintage as the house, with an oculus window in its gable end. Extending across the ell&#39;s side is a bracketed shed-roof porch.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1875, during North Adams industrial boom time. Its combination of features are a locally distinctive variant of the Italianate style, which is found repeated elsewhere in the community. The house was built for W. W. Armstrong, a worker at the Arnold Print Works, and is considered one of North Adams best-preserved Italianate houses.</p><br>
<p>Knight Park–Howell Station, also known as Howell Station Historic District, is a National historic district and neighborhood in, Atlanta, Georgia. Almost all buildings in the area were destroyed in the American Civil War, in Sherman&#39;s March to the Sea, and all of the buildings in the district were built after 1864. The neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The P.J. Barrett Block is a historic block in Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the four brick buildings on Park Street along with the Jones Block, Armory Block, and the Mausert Block, opposite the Town Hall. The block was built in roughly 1880, during a period of rapid industrial expansion in Adams. The original uses of the building were to provide retail shops on the ground floor and apartment-style housing above, a common feature of buildings of the period. It has a somewhat utilitarian appearance, which may be reflective of the relative haste in which it was designed and built. The building has a brick face, and the windows on the upper floors have curved pediments. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, after a period of abandonment, the building was rehabilitated by Dawson Associates into two commercial spaces and eight apartments of affordable housing. Financing was a blended form from an area bank, the (then) Massachusetts Government Land Bank under a pilot program to encourage changes in local tax abatement procedures to incentivize the redevelopment of abandoned properties, and the Town of Adams. Dawson Associates consisted of Mr. Donald Ruffer a prominent area Realtor, Mr. Richard Moscatelli, Executive Director of Housing Now, and Carter Terenzini, the City of Pittsfield&#39;s first Commissioner of Community and Economic Development and subsequently a Principal of RCT Associates. All were from Pittsfield, MA.</p><br>
<p>In June 2016, a fire on a stove in a third floor apartment, displaced four families and resulted in damage to the upper floors and attic.</p><br>
<p>Beaver Mill is a historic mill located in North Adams, Massachusetts. With a construction history dating to 1833, it is the oldest surviving mill building in the city, and was the first local acquisition of Sprague Electric, a major local employer in the 20th century. The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The complex now houses artist studios and other facilities.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Beaver Mill is located east of downtown North Adams, on the north bank of the North Branch Hoosic River, originally the source of its power. It consists of a series of large attached masonry structures, built mainly out of brick. Its main building (mill #1) is built in part on foundations that date to 1833, and its lower floors were built in 1850 out of stone following a fire. This portion is the oldest mill building in North Adams, and its only surviving stone mill structure. The mill was owned for many years by A.C. Houghton, one of the city&#39;s leading businessman and its first mayor. In 1875, Gallup & Houghton owned the majority of the mill, with about one quarter owned by Harvey Arnold. A 1,000 ft long, 12 ft high, 4 ft thick wall was built along the water in 1888 to protect the mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill achieved its largest extent in 1900, with 25,000 spindles, as part of the Arnold Print Works properties; business failures in 1878 and 1908 caused the mill to be part of the Arnold Print Works Reorganization Agreements. In 1929 Arnold sold the property to Sprague Electric, whose first major facility it was. Sprague moved some of its facilities from Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Beaver Mill in 1930. Sprague went on to take over most of the Arnold complex. Sprague sold it to Hoosuck Community Resources Corp. by 1977.</p><br>
<p>Becket Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic early center of Becket, Massachusetts. Centered at the junction of Massachusetts Route 8 and YMCA Road, this area was the town&#39;s civic heart and a center of industry until it was eclipsed in importance by North Becket, which was served by the railroad. Most of the architecture in the district is in the Federal and Greek Revival styles popular in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Becket was first laid out by colonial settlers in the 1737, but was not settled until the 1750s, and was incorporated as a town in 1765. Its earliest civic structures include the Center Cemetery (1756) on the south side of YMCA Road, militia training and parade ground (at the junction of MA 8 and YMCA Road), the first meetinghouse (1762–64), now demolished, with the site marked north of the parade ground, and a stone animal pound (1768) on the west side of MA 8 that is the finest surviving pound in Berkshire County. The present Greek Revival First Congregational Church was built in 1850, across YMCA Road from the old meetinghouse, but the latters 19th-century horse sheds were retained. The villages decline began after the 1841 construction of the Western Railroad bypassed it in favor of North Becket. As a result, the village retains a significant number of Federal and Greek Revival buildings, with relatively little subsequent development.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is geographically centered on YMCA Road, an east-west route joining Route 8 to Hamilton Road. The district extends along the latter two roads south from their junctions with YMCA Road, and a short way north on Hamilton Road. In addition to houses and the buildings already mentioned, the district includes an old post office, old town hall, and a former schoolhouse that has been converted to a residence.</p><br>
<p>The Berkshire Mill No. 1 is a historic mill complex on Hoosac Street in the center of Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1895 by the locally prominent Plunkett family, it is an important surviving reminder of the town&#39;s industrial textile past. Now converted into mixed residential and commercial use, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Berkshire Mill No. 1 stands just north of Adams&#39; central business district, on a parcel bounded by Columbia and Hoosac Streets to the west and south, and a railroad right-of-way to the east. The mill consists of a large main building, 3-1/2 stories in height, built out of red brick with granite foundation and trim. Architectural detailing is limited, with windows set in segmented-arch openings and a cornice with some corbelled brickwork. The most prominent decoration is in the tower that projects from the center of the south-facing main facade, rising four stories to a hip roof. The upper level on three sides consists of a series of round-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>The mill is one of the surviving remnants of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company, established in Adams in 1888 by the locally prominent Plunkett family, and one of the town&#39;s largest employers at its height. The company eventually merged several times, and is now known as Berkshire Hathaway, a company managed by Warren Buffett. The manufacturing company was originally successful despite a drop in demand for the products of other Adams mills because the Plunketts decided to focus on more fashionable fine cotton fabric. The company grew rapidly between its founding and 1900, when President William McKinley, a friend of the Plunketts, laid the cornerstone for their Number 4 Mill. This mill was built on the site of the former Adams Paper Company mill, in which the Plunketts had been leasing space. Mill No. 2 was located north of this building, where the parking lot is located. The company eventually acquired other mills by purchase, but business declined in the 20th century, and the mills changed ownership several times. Portions of them were converted to other manufacturing uses, and mills 2 and 3 were demolished due do a drop in demand for industrial space. The building was converted into 65 apartments in 1987 and is currently managed by Harvest Properties LLC. A similar proposal to convert Berkshire Mill No.4 into 150 apartments was made in 2014 but development has not started and the building remains vacant.</p><br>
<p>Berkshire Life Insurance Company Building is a historic commercial building at 5-7 North Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It is located in the heart of downtown Pittsfield, facing Park Square across North Street. Built in 1868, it is one of a trio of Second Empire buildings designed by Louis Weisbsein, a Boston architect, whose style influenced later construction in the city. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Berkshire Life Insurance Company Building stands at the northwest corner of Park Square, in the heart of downtown Pittsfield, at the corner of North and West Streets. It is a five-story masonry structure, built out of Nova Scotia freestone. Its main facade faces east, and is seven bays wide, with the main building entrance at the center bay, sheltered by a portico supported by clustered columns and topped by a low balustrade. The other first-floor bays have round-arch openings, the rightmost one housing a store entrance. Windows are set by floor in rectangular, segmented-arch, and round-arch windows, with a variety of topping elements. There is a modillioned cornice above the third floor (the building&#39;s original roofline), and another at the top.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1868 to house the headquarters of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company. It was designed by Boston architect Louis Weissbein, who also designed the nearby County Courthouse and House of Correction. All three buildings originally featured mansard roofs, and were influential on subsequent architecture in downtown Pittsfield.</p><br>
<p>The building was extended westward in 1906, in work designed by Pittsfield architect Henry Seaver. In 1911 the mansard roof was removed and replaced by two additional stories, to plans by Joseph McArthur Vance. The building&#39;s interior was extensively damaged by fire in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Bidwell House Museum is a historic house and museum on Art School Road in Monterey, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<h2>The Bidwell House</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the 1760s by the Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, the first minister in what was then Township No. 1. At that time, the house was the demographic center of the township and was located on the route of the Boston-Albany Post Road. It is a classic Georgian Saltbox built around a central chimney. Four fireplaces and two beehive ovens feed into the chimney structure, which is supported by a classical Roman Arch in the basement. The house has two additions, the Ell Addition (1820s) and a Greek Revival/Carriage Barn addition (1840s).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Henry Knox</h3><br>
<p>Reverend Bidwell, a patriot, was an active supporter of the United States Army. Henry Knox, famous for his leadership of the expedition that carried strategically crucial cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights, passed through Monterey on that famous mission, most likely on the post road. Historical evidence suggests that Knox may have passed through the Bidwell property on his famous journey, now the basis for books, films, and the historic Henry Knox Trail. He may have even stopped at the house in the middle of winter, possibly to stay a night or obtain supplies.</p><br>
<h3>Ownership</h3><br>
<p>The Reverend died in 1784 and left the house to his son, Adonijah the Younger. Adonijah the Younger utilized the house and grounds (approximately 125 acre at the time) as a family farm, before selling the house in his old age to his son, John Devotion Bidwell, for "love and affection and one dollar." In 1853, John Devotion Bidwell sold the house to the Carrington family after 103 years of Bidwell ownership. At the time, John Bidwell was a selectman, justice of the peace, and prominent personality in the newly incorporated town of Monterey, Massachusetts (1847).</p><br>
<p>The house remained with the Carrington family for three generations and 61 years until they sold it to a lumber company in 1914. After using the house as a base for local operations, the company sold it to an Art School. It was used as a faculty house by the school until 1935. By this time it had acquired the name "Deepwood Manse." By the 1950s, the house was in an increasing state of disrepair.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>In 1960, it was purchased by Jack Hargis and David Brush, two fashion designers from New York City. They bought it and 196 acre surrounding for the sum of $30,000 and proceeded to spend the next 25 years restoring the house. They were fortunate enough to come across the inventory of the Rev. Bidwell&#39;s estate, which listed all his worldly possessions at the time of his death. Hargis and Brush proceeded to fill the restored house with dated pieces of furniture, artwork, and other objects, many of them originally owned by the Reverend.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1990, the house became a museum, the result of a death request by David Brush. It is open for tours from Thursday through Monday between Memorial Day and Columbus Day, as well as for special events. It is open from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with guided tours of the house starting on the hour.</p><br>
<p>The Blackinton Historic District is a historic district in the western part of North Adams, Massachusetts, roughly along Massachusetts Avenue between Ashton and Doanes Avenues and Church Hill and the Boston & Maine Railroad. The district, which encompasses North Adams&#39; best preserved mill village, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood where the historic district is located is around the mills of the Blackinton Company, founded on the north bank of the Hoosic River in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White. It was one of the three mill villages, with Greylock and Braytonville, that contributed to the westward expansion of North Adams. It would become one of the largest manufacturers of woolen goods in Western Massachusetts, buoyed especially by large orders from the Union Army during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district is basically linear in character, extending along Massachusetts Avenue west of downtown North Adams and north of the Hoosic River. It extends along the north side between Church Hill Road and Wood Street, and on the south side east from Ashton Avenue, to about midway between Wood and Church Hill. The district includes the surviving brick mill buildings between Massachusetts Avenue and the river, the 1839 Blackinton Company Store, two churches, and the c. 1850 Greek Revival residence of Sanford Blackinton. There are also fine examples of later Victorian architecture, including a Queen Anne/Stick style home built by John P. Blackinton in 1880 across the street from the mill complex.</p><br>
<p>The Boardman is a series of rowhouses at 39-53 Montana Street, occupying an entire city block between Hoosac and Blackinton Streets in North Adams, Massachusetts. The building was, at the time of its construction , one of the most elaborate multiunit buildings in the city, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Boardman is located southeast of downtown North Adams, on the west side of Montana Street, occupying the full block between Blackinton Street and Hoosac Street. It is a 2-1/2 story rowhouse consisting of nine units, set townhouse style in a single structure. The first floor was built of stone, while the second floor is of wood frame construction originally covered in wooden clapboards. Each unit featured porches in front and in back, and has what was originally considered a servant staircase in the rear, an indication of the status of the intended occupants. The servants&#39; quarters were located in the attic level. The typical unit has a two-part facade, with a porch on one side and a bay window adjacent. The porches are shed-roofed, with a rounded arch housing the entrance and a flanking sash window. The porches are supported by clustered round columns, set on raised brick piers, with a brick connecting parapet in between.</p><br>
<p>The Boardman was built by developer Walter Penniman in two stages on land subdivided from the estate of F. R. Blackinton in response to the demand for housing occasioned by the establishment of the normal school (now the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, located across the street). The first four units were built in 1899, the other five in 1901. The architect was Edwin Thayer Barlow, who designed the row in Colonial Revival style. The Pennimans were briefly resident here, and its early tenants included teachers, a chemist, and the principal editor of the North Adams Transcript.</p><br>
<p>The Captain John Brewer House is a historic house located at 471 Main Road in Monterey, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1750 by John Brewer, one of the earliest settlers in what is now Monterey, and is a well-preserved example of Georgian architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Captain John Brewer House is located east of the village center of Monterey, on the north side of Main Road (Massachusetts Route 23) at its junction with Sandisfield Road. It is a -story clapboarded wood-frame structure, in an L shape with a cross-gabled roof. Its main facade is oriented south toward the street, with a secondary facade to the east. Both facades are five bays wide, with the main facade symmetrical around center entrance. The entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, which rise to a corniced entablature. The eastern facade has windows placed irregularly, with two entrances that have simpler styling but a similar entablature. A modern kitchen ell has been added in the crook of the L.</p><br>
<p>John Brewer arrived in the area in 1739, responding to an offer from the township owners to establish a mill in exchange for a large land grant. His first house (no longer standing) was likely the first in the town, built on a land grant of 75 acre that includes the present town center. This house, his second, is located closer to the town center, and remained in the family until 1849. The remnants of Brewer&#39;s mill still exist near the outflow of Lake Garfield.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Browne House is a historic house located in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1869, it was the home of Charles A. Browne Sr., inventor of the electrical fuse and an innovator of devices and materials used in construction of the nearby Hoosac Tunnel. The house is a well-preserved example of a local variant of Italianate architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Browne House is located southeast of downtown North Adams, on the east side of South Church Street (Massachusetts Route 8A), a short way north of Southview Cemetery and also a short way west of the western portal of the Hoosac Tunnel. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, roughly cubic in shape, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the left bay, sheltered by a hip-roofed portico supported by decorative metalwork. Both the porch and main roof have extended eaves supported by decorative brackets. A single-story polygonal window bay projects from the right side, and a two-story addition extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1869 for Charles Albert Browne Sr., a local inventor who is credited with a number of innovations while working for companies providing explosives to the builders of the tunnel. Most significant of these was the development of an electrical fuse that would work reliably in the tunnel&#39;s damp conditions. His house exhibits a number of characteristic signatures of a distinctive regional variant of the Italianate style: the side entrance on the front facade, the window bay, and the bracketed eaves. Browne and his brother established a small factory across the street, which survives in significantly altered form.</p><br>
<p>The Church Street–Cady Hill Historic District, originally known as the Church Street Historic District, is a historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts. It was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and was expanded and renamed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Church Street, the areas principal route, was laid out about 1780, and is one of the citys oldest roads. Residential development in the area remained modest until the 1850s, and in the subsequent decades a significant number of Italianate and Second Empire houses were built on Church Street and adjacent side streets, which were laid out beginning in the 1840s. Later development extended further from Church Street, with a fine assembly of Stick and Queen Anne style houses on Holbrook and Cherry Streets to the east. Most of these houses were not designed by architects; one (27 Wall Street) is based on a pattern published by Palliser, Palliser & Company in one of its architectural design books.</p><br>
<p>The Clark–Eames House is a historic house located at 230 Middlefield Road in Washington, Massachusetts. Probably built around 1790, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clark–Eames House is located in a rural setting in the southeastern corner of Washington; the closest village is that of Becket to the southwest. It is located on the southeast side of Middlefield Road, roughly opposite its junction with Johnson Hill Road. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its five-bay front facade has simple Federal period styling, with simple moulded surrounds around the windows, and a center entrance with flanking pilasters and a corniced entablature. In the late 19th century, the entrance was sheltered by a gable-roof hood with Victorian styling, but that has since been removed.</p><br>
<p>It is one of only a handful houses constructed in the area during the 18th century, with a construction date sometime between 1782 and 1797. Its presence in a remote corner of the town exemplifies the towns dispersed form of settlement. The house was the seat of a 70 acre farm for most of the 19th century. It now serves as a vacation residence, show another trend on how the towns economy has changed in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Citizens Hall is a historic municipal building at 13 Willard Hill Road in Interlaken, a village of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1870 as a schoolhouse and community meeting center, it is a well-preserved local example of Second Empire architecture. The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and included as a contributing property in the Old Curtisville Historic District in 1976. It now houses Berkshire Art Center .</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Citizens Hall is located in the village of Interlaken, on the west side of Willard Hill Road south of its junctions with Interlaken Cross Road and Interlaken Road. It is a two-story wood frame building, with a mansard roof and flushboarded exterior with corner quoining. The roof cornice is adorned with delicately carved wooden brackets. The central portion of the main facade projects, with a three-story tower projecting slightly further forward. The main entrance is located in the base of the tower, which is also topped by a mansard-style roof with an iron railing at the top. Above the entrance is a three-part Palladian style window, each section having a rounded top. Ground floor windows are framed by bracketed cornices and sills.</p><br>
<p>In 1866 the town of Stockbridge abolished its district school system, opting instead for a scheme in which graded schools were located in each of the town&#39;s villages. This</p><br>
<p>The hall was built in 1870 as a school and community center serving what was then a mill village then known as Curtisville, and is now called Interlaken. It was designed by Pittsfield architect Charles T. Rathbun. In 1991 it was adapted for use by the Interlaken School of Art, later named Berkshire Art Center in June 2022.</p><br>
<p>Coleman Bridge is a historic Ball-patent pipe pony truss bridge in Windsor, Massachusetts. It is the only known surviving in situ bridge of its type, one of about two dozen built in western New England. It is located on an abandoned stretch of Windsor Bush Road which crosses Phelps Brook in what is now a remote upland section of Windsor. The bridge was located near farms owned by the Coleman family, giving the bridge its name. The bridge type was invented by Charles H. Ball, an entrepreneur from nearby Peru who developed the idea of using pipes as structural elements of bridges over smaller bodies of water. Only three instances are known to exist, two of which were  disassembled and in storage.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was probably built in the 1890s, when Ball was at his height as a bridge builder, and did regular work for the Windsor highway department. The bridge elements were manufactured in Balls small East Windsor shop. It was built on the site where there had previously been a wooden bridge, and spans 31 ft. The top cords of the pony truss are pipes 5.75 in in diameter, with doubled iron rods functioning as the trusss bottom chord. The bridge originally had wooden stringers, which were at some point replaced by iron ones. The wooden floor of the bridge is also a replacement. The bridge is accessible on foot, but is impacted by the construction of beaver dams nearby and underneath the structure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Cranesville Historic District is a historic district in Dalton, Massachusetts, centered on the business and residential properties associated with the papermaker Crane and Company. The district, centered on Main Street west of the town civic center, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Papermaking began as an industry in Dalton in the early 19th century, and was dominated by Zenas Cranes operations by the early 1820s. Crane and Company controlled numerous papermaking operations throughout the Berkshires, but it was headquartered in Dalton, where the Crane family lived. The family built several large estates on the north side of Main Street, notably Sugar Hill, the home of Winthrop Murray Crane, who oversaw the companys success in the late 19th century, and served as Governor of Massachusetts. The company&#39;s historic industrial facilities of Crane are located south of Main Street, although they are generally near the Housatonic River and screened from view. Prominent on the street in this area is the 1816 home of Zenas Crane, who founded the business in Dalton in the early 19th century. The most notable of the industrial facilities is the National Historic Landmark Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room, the oldest surviving building on the Crane premises.</p><br>
<p>Extending east along Main Street from the industrial complex are a number of late 19th century houses, most of which were built by or for executives of the Crane company. Southwest along South Street, extending along Crane and Porter Avenues on the south side of the river, are groups of company-built worker housing. These are primarily identical duplexes built in the 1910s and 1920s. Another cluster of worker housing lies north east of the Crane family estates off Park Avenue; this area also includes a series of modest Capes built by the Cranes for World War II veterans in the early 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The Crowley House is a historic house located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one a small number of houses in North Adams built in a transitional Federalist-Greek Revival style, and one of its relatively small number of early 19th-century houses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Crowley House is located in the West End of North Adams on the north side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 2), just east of Fairgrounds Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof and two interior end chimneys. The main block is flanked by single-story wings, the left one a single bay wide, and the right one three bays wide. The house follows a fairly typical Greek Revival plan, with a central hall and wings on either side of the main block. The front facade has Greek Revival details, including Doric pilasters and Greek fret molding, but the workmanship of some of the details shows that it was probably done by someone with more practice in the Federal style. The fan in the front gable end is a Federal period feature.</p><br>
<p>Little is known of its early history; based on its architecture, a construction date of 1830 is estimated. It first enters the documentary record in the 1860s when its owner defaulted on debts and lost the property. It was occupied from the 1880s into the early 20th century by David Crowley, a clothes finisher working in the local textile mills. It is unknown if Crowley occupied the property, and it appears to have had long use as a rental.</p><br>
<p>The Dwight–Henderson House is a historic house at 390 Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is the second oldest house in Great Barrington, built in 1759 for Joseph Dwight, a brigadier in the colonial militia, by local builder Daniel Allen. The saltbox home was originally built into a slope, and had three stories on the front and one in the rear. The house has been moved twice, but remains within 200 ft of its original site. The second move, the foundation that formed the wall for the original first floor, so it now presents only two stories in front.</p><br>
<p>The house is notable for several historical associations. In addition to General Dwight, who was also town moderator and selectman, and a county judge, the houses notable guests include British General John Burgoyne, who surrendered his army after the Battles of Saratoga in 1777, and spent several days here while en route to the Boston area as a prisoner. It is also the house where poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant was married; he was a guest of the owner, Allen Henderson.</p><br>
<p>Since then, the house has seen a variety of uses. It served for a time as housing for the nearby Berkshire Motor Inn, and now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Philip Eames House is a historic stone house in Washington, Massachusetts. Built in 1843 for a local mill owner, it is one of the community&#39;s finest 19th-century houses, with Federal and Greek Revival styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Philip Eames House is located in rural eastern Washington, at the southwest corner of Summit Hill Road and Stone House Road. It is a -story masonry structure, built out of irregularly cut granite, with a gabled roof and brick chimneys. Its main facade is five bays wide, with its center entrance set in a segmented-arch opening framed by pilasters and a keystoned arch. The entry is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a fanlight transom. The gable ends are fully pedimented in the Greek Revival style, and are also built of granite.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1843, and is characterized in its National Register nomination as the towns "most imposing 19th century residence". Local lore says that some of the building materials came from the construction of the nearby railroad line, whose 1838 construction required blasting a deep cut through solid rock. Philip Eames, for whom the house was built, was the local operator of a number of saw mills. The Eames familys 1764 homestead, where he was born, stood nearby until the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Elm–Maple–South Streets Historic District is a historic district encompassing part of the historic downtown of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The most prominent parts of Stockbridge lie within the Main Street Historic District, which abuts this district to the north. The southern boundary of this district is the railroad tracks that run parallel to the Housatonic River. The eastern boundary of the district is Laurel Hill, a wooded park overlooking the town, and the western boundary is a terraced shelf in the plains of the river. The district includes properties on Depot, Elm, Maple, and South Streets, and Laurel Lane. Unlike Main Street, this district consists of more densely place residences, and narrower roads containing businesses just off Main Street. Its buildings were mostly constructed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and partially reflect Elm Street&#39;s function as an industrial part of the town. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Stockbridge was founded in the 1730s as a "Praying Indian" community, with its main settlement where the downtown area is now. South Street began as a Native American trail leading to the south, crossing the river at a fordable location. A bridge was first built near where the modern bridge now stands in 1744. The junction of Main and South Streets became a major local commercial nexus by later in the 18th century, with the area closer to the river where small industries began to flourish. One of Berkshire County&#39;s first printing operations was begun in this area, and there was by the mid-19th century a blacksmithy. A few houses stood in the area by the turn of the 19th century, but it was not until the 1850s that a significant number of houses began to be built south of Main Street. Many of these were populated by people engaged in trades for travelers, or otherwise engaged in business on Main Street. One of the older houses and the largest in the district, the Tidmarsh-Edwards House at 8 South Street, has had a number of notable residents, including politician and businessman John Z. Goodrich.</p><br>
<p>Farnams Village Historic District is a historic district in Cheshire, Massachusetts, United States. It encompasses the historic limestone mining community known as Farnams Village and the associated surviving industrial and mining infrastructure associated with a mining operation active from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. The main village area is centered on Lanesborough Road in southern Cheshire, near Farnams and Quarry Roads, with quarry sites on the hillside to the west. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Farnams Village is located in southern Cheshire, a rural town on the eastern slope of Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. The geology of southwestern Cheshire includes ridges of outcrops with deposits of limestone and marble, which were mined on a small scale, primarily for local use by farmers, beginning in the early 19th century. The arrival of railroad infrastructure in the area in the mid-19th century prompted a more organized expansion of mining efforts. The Dean family were one of the first to establish a small mining operation (c. 1840), located roughly at the western end of Quarry Road. Brothers Alfred and Albert Farnam in 1874 opened a lime processing facility, and greatly expanded mining in an area adjacent to the small Dean mine. The Farnams were economically successful, producing a high quality white plaster lime, and eventually expanded their holdings to more than 1,500 acre. They overextended their finances in the process, and sold the business in 1905. The business was acquired by US Gypsum in 1927, and operated until 1969, when it was closed down.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers a total of 1,400 acre. The center of the district is the historic village center, at the junction of Lanesborough, Farnams, and Quarry Roads, where there stand a cluster of buildings, including worker housing and buildings related to the operation of the quarries. The district also includes the quarries and abandoned quarry equipment, former mining structures, worker housing, and public facilities of the village. There are significant areas of primarily industrial archeological interest, due to the large number of abandoned and destroyed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Five Corners Historic District is a historic district encompassing the central district of the village of South Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is centered at the junction of Cold Spring, Green River, New Ashford. The junction has been a prominent center in the area since 1760. Prominent buildings in the district include the South Center School, the Store at Five Corners, and the Second Congregational Church. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Williamstown was laid out as a township in 1739 and incorporated in 1765. Its early development was centered in the modern town center to the north, and the southern part of the town was not laid out until 1765. South Williamstown, now Five Corners, was formed out of the junction of four large parcels of land, and developed in the late 18th century as a stop on the main north-south stagecoach route (today United States Route 7). By the turn of the 19th century the village had a tavern, store, and cemetery, and the first church was built in 1808. The area remained agricultural through the 19th-century, having been bypassed by railroad construction and significant industrial activity.</p><br>
<p>The district consists of about 58 acre of land, centered on the junction of Route 7, Massachusetts Route 43, and Sloan Road, a local road serving the area west of the village. The area&#39;s slow pace of development and relative isolation has resulted in the accumulation of an architecturally diverse set of buildings, most of which are residential. Many of them are vernacular interpretations of popular 19th-century styles, with versions of the Federal and Greek Revival periods predominant. Significant non-residential buildings include the Second Congregational Church, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1875, the Sloan Tavern, built c. 1770 and later restyled in the Greek Revival, and the 1868 South Center School.</p><br>
<p>The Freeman&#39;s Grove Historic District is a residential historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts. It encompasses a neighborhood north of the city center that is a well-preserved instance of a working class area developed during its industrial heyday in the late 19th century. It includes the Chase Hill Estate as well as all the houses on Chase Avenue, Bracewell Street, Hall Street and several smaller streets adjacent to those. It is roughly bounded by Liberty Street, Eagle Street, Bracewell Avenues and Houghton Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Freeman&#39;s Grove neighborhood is located north of downtown North Adams, on the hills rising north of the east-west flowing North Branch Hoosic River.</p><br>
<p>Named after the Freeman Grove Manufacturing Company, the neighborhood combined raw houses built for the company’s workers aside spacious Victorian homes for the upper classes The housing stock in the district includes single- and multiple-family homes, built in a variety of architectural styles. There are only a small number of houses that were built before the boom of the late 19th century, most of which are in a Greek Revival style. Most of the housing in the district was built between 1887 and 1894.</p><br>
<p>Eagle Street, which forms the districts eastern boundary, is a historic road leading north from the city center, and its west side is where some of the districts oldest buildings are found. The Haynes House at 175 Eagle Street was built about 1840, and is one of the largest and most architecturally sophisticated houses in the district. Nearby are two Italianate houses, one of which is a late example of the style (built 1889). A few of the district&#39;s houses were built from mail-order plans; the Stick style house at 39 Hall Street is one example of this type, coming from a pattern book published in Tennessee, and several duplexes appear to be based on the designs of Palliser, Palliser & Company, a prominent publisher of such designs from Bridgeport, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>1980s</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood went through a particularly rough time in the 1980s. Ramshackle housing, litter, vandalism, alcoholism, drugs, and absentee landlords were a common problem in the area. In the early 1990s, members of the community formed an action plan to restore the neighborhood to its past state. The residents united under the name ‘UNO’ (United Neighborhood Organization). The goals of UNO were to increase respect for the neighborhood, improve the environment, and educate residents about drug and alcohol prevention.</p><br>
<p>1990s</p><br>
<p>In 1994, a Community Policing program began as an effort to have police and communities work together. Police attended monthly meetings and took note of the concerns that residents had. 1998 saw another positive change as funding from the Mayor’s office brought in a new playground. Some older, unsafe buildings were torn down to make room, and the playground was built by the efforts of many people, including a Williamstown construction team from the International Institute for Cooperation and Development, volunteers from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), and local residents.</p><br>
<p>2000s</p><br>
<p>The Porches Inn, built in 2001, had a further dramatic impact on the community. Initially seen as a building that could spruce-up the neighborhood, the hotel also created controversy among the long-time residents. Some consider it an unwanted intrusion that has bulldozed former homes and done little to improve the other homes in the surrounding area, while others view it as a welcome addition to the community, returning some of the former richness and beauty to the area.</p><br>
<p>Spearheaded by local community activist Shirley Davis, in the past two decades, Freeman Grove Historic District has entered into a new transformation phase. The collaboration between UNO, the city, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and John "Jack" Wadsworth and his wife, Susy, owners of the Porches, had revitalized this somewhat rundown corner of the city into a welcoming center for visitors and residents alike that now attracts young families and artists.</p><br>
<p>2010</p><br>
<p>In 2018, the UNO Community Center opened in a former tavern on River Street. Purchased and renovated by Wadsworth — what he calls "impact investing" — the center provided the first permanent home for the neighborhood group founded by Shirley Davis in 1990.</p><br>
<p>In addition, Wadsworth has purchased three corners of the River, Marshall and Houghton streets intersection: The new park next to the UNO center and another parcel across Houghton Street, as well as a former pool supply company on Marshall.</p><br>
<p>The second park on Houghton and River, and next to the existing city field and playground, is nearly complete and will include a grassy amphitheater, a pagoda and a place for screening movies.</p><br>
<p>Most recently, the Brooklyn based musical collective Floating Tower, led by composer Mátti Kovler, purchased the Chase Hill Estate with long term prospects of creating an artist retreat for refugee musicians and doing work with local community.</p><br>
<p>The Glendale Power House is a historic power station on the Housatonic River, just off Massachusetts Route 183 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The 1905 power house, built for the Monument Mills, was one of the first places in the United States where electricity was generated for the purpose of providing power to an industrial facility. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The facility has been rehabilitated and converted into modernized hydroelectric power generation plant.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Glendale Power House is located southwest of Stockbridge&#39;s village center, sandwiched between Massachusetts Route 183 on the northwest bank of the Housatonic River, below the point where Glendale Middle Road crosses the river. The property is over 13 acre in size, with a dam at the northern end (just south of the bridge), a power canal 1,500 ft in length, and a stone power house. The dam is 28 ft in height, and is built out of poured concrete. The canal is 40 ft wide, and was dug out of heavy clay. The power house is a single-story stone structure, three bays wide and four long, with a slate roof. The interior is a single large chamber, which historically house turbines and electrical control equipment. A sliding gantry-style crane provided the means to move equipment around within the building for maintenance.</p><br>
<p>The power plant was built in 1905 by Monument Mills of Housatonic, at the site of a dam that dated to the 1840s for a papermaking operation. The stone building uses stone originally quarried for the Glendale Woolen Mill. By 1909, this plant was providing half of the mills&#39; power requirements. The power station was taken out of service in 1946, and most of its original generation equipment removed. Its four turbines can produce 1.07 MW of electricity. Electricity generation depends on the availability of water; during a drought, the water level might fall too low to run the turbines.</p><br>
<p>The Golden Hill Bridge is a historic bridge on Golden Hill Road over the Housatonic River in Lee, Massachusetts. It is a lenticular pony truss bridge built c. 1885 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, and is the state&#39;s oldest surviving bridge of this type. It is one of only five Berlin Co. bridges in the Berkshires, and is the only known surviving bridge to implement modifications to the pony truss design patented by William O. Douglas in 1885. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Golden Hill Bridge is located in a rural setting in northern Lee, carrying Golden Hill Road, a local through street, across the Housatonic River in an east–west orientation. It is a single-span iron lenticular pony truss structure, 80 ft long and 16 ft wide, resting on concrete abutments. The truss depth at the center of the span is 7 ft. The bridge deck consists of modern steel I-beam stringers supporting a concrete road surface.</p><br>
<p>A bridge has been documented to stand at this location as early as the 1790s. A bridge at the site underwent repairs in 1866, but was judged to be in need of repair or replacement in 1885. The town contracted for the trusses with the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, then a major producer of bridge trusses, and the bridge was completed for $1,000. In 1965, the state added a metal grid deck, and in 1970 it replaced the original deck supports with I-beams. In 1992, after the bridge was closed to vehicular traffic, the state began proceedings to consider replacement of the aging structure. It was further closed to pedestrians in 1996. The bridge finally underwent major restorative work in 2005, and is again open to traffic.</p><br>
<p>Goodwood is a historic house in Richmond, Massachusetts. Built c. 1792, the house is one of the best examples of late-Georgian early-Federalist houses in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The property&#39;s importance is further enhanced by its association with a number of high-profile owners.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first significant owner of the Goodwood property in Richmond, Massachusetts was one Jeremiah Pierson, who acquired the property in 1792, and sold it, with a house and outbuildings on it, five years later. In 1820, it came into the hands of Reverend Edwin Welles Dwight, a distant relative of Yale College president Timothy Dwight. Dwight was—for eighteen years—minister at the local Congregational Church, and was also notable in the foreign missionary movement, writing an account of a South Sea islander named Henry Obookiah. Dwights memoir of Obookiahs life sparked the first missionary expedition to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).</p><br>
<p>In 1838, Dwight sold the property to geologist Stephen Reed. He gained international exposure for his descriptions of the Richmond Boulder Train, a series of glacial erratics in Richmond and neighboring New York State. His accounts and presentations sparked a long-running debate in the geological community on the subject of glaciation. Reed sold the property in 1850, and it went through a success of owners. The purchaser in 1896, Mrs. Henry March, gave the property the name "Goodwood", after Goodwood House, the seat of the Dukes of Richmond. Richmond was named for the third duke, who supported American independence in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1933, Goodwood was purchased by Raymond Leslie Buell, an influential diplomat, and one-time editor of Fortune magazine. In 1982, the house was owned by a descendant of both Buell and Reverend Dwight. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Goodwood is a four-square two-storey wood-frame house that incorporates both late Georgian and early Federalist features. The main feature of the front is the entry porch, featuring sidelights, Palladian windows, and a semi-circular gable window. The interior of the house is well preserved, consisting of a central hall plan with two interior chimneys. The original kitchen, the room to the back and right of the hall, retains its original cooking fireplace, but has been converted to a library, housing Dr. Buell&#39;s 2,000-volume collection. The two front drawing rooms are both elaborately decorated.</p><br>
<p>Hall&#39;s Tavern is a historic tavern at 41 North Street in Cheshire, Massachusetts. Built in 1804, it is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture, and an important local meeting place in the 19th century. Now a private residence, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hall&#39;s Tavern is located in the village center of Cheshire, on the west side of North Street (Massachusetts Route 8) north of its junction with West Mountain Road and directly opposite the First Baptist Church. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney. Its centered doorway is flanked by pilasters and topped by a triangular pediment. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with splayed wooden lintels. The interior follows a typical central chimney plan, with parlors on either side of the chimney, and a narrow entry vestibule with a winding staircase. The rear half of the structure consists of a large central chamber (historically the kitchen), and two small chambers in the corners.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was built in 1804 for Calvin Hall, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. It was operated as a tavern, and was notable in part for housing British prisoners of war during the War of 1812. It also hosted meetings of a regional Masonic lodge in the 19th century. Hall sold the property in 1816 to the Cole family, who owned it for 130 years. The building has since seen use as a private residence, and as a retail establishment.</p><br>
<p>Hancock Town Hall is a historic town hall on Massachusetts Route 43 in Hancock, Massachusetts. It was constructed in the Greek Revival style c. 1852, using timbers from a previous meeting house. The building served a number of municipal purposes, including library, school, town offices, and town meeting space. In preparation for the towns celebration of the nations bicentennial, the hall was moved in 1975 to a lot adjacent to the town cemetery and restored. The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. After being delisted for being moved, it was relisted in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hancock Town Hall is located in central Hancock, in a rural setting on the east side of Massachusetts Route 43, just south of the town cemetery. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance topped by a corniced entablature. The flanking bays have sash windows, with those on the first floor topped by slightly peaked lintels. The building has plain corner boards, which rise to an entablature that encircles the building. The front gable is fully pedimented, with a triangular panel in the center.</p><br>
<p>The town hall was built about 1852, using timber salvaged from a church that was being demolished. It is one of only three purpose-built 19th-century town halls in all of Berkshire County. It was originally located in the towns village center, where in addition to housing town facilities and functions, it also housed a private secondary school for a number of years. It served as the towns civic center until 1958, when offices and town meetings were relocated to other facilities. In 1973, the town decided to rehabilitate the building, restoring its use for town meetings. It was moved in 1975 to its present location, and was upgraded with electricity and plumbing. The move resulted in its delisting from the National Register, which was restored later in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Harrison House is a historic house at 82 Third Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it was for many years home to Rev. Samuel Harrison, a regionally-prominent African-American minister  who served as chaplain to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Harrison House stands on the east side of Third Street near its junction with Silver Street in a residential area northeast of Pittsfield&#39;s central Park Square. It is a -story plank-framed wooden structure, with a gabled roof, and a shed-roof porch extending along its south side. It has modest vernacular Greek Revival elements, include gable returns and a Doric column supporting the porch, whose rear section is enclosed.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Samuel Harrison Society was formed to save Rev. Samuel Harrisons house from demolition after learning that it had historic value. Now with Rev. Harrisons house on the Registry of Historic Places, the Samuel Harrison Society is committed to restoring and preserving the home.</p><br>
<p>The Hathaway Tenement is a historic tenement house located in North Adams, Massachusetts. A row of six apartment units, it was built in about 1850, and is a rare surviving example of worker housing dating to the early period of North Adams&#39; industrial development. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hathaway Tenement is located just northwest of central North Adams, on the north side of River Street just west of its junction with Loftus Street. It is a long two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It consists of six rowhouses, each three bays wide, with entrances set in pairs under gable-roofed porches. Windows are one-over-one sash, with most set singly in rectangular openings. In one of the central units, one bay of windows has been sided over. The styling is basically a vernacular Greek Revival, with flat cornerboards and short returns on the building&#39;s gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The building dates to the first period of industrialization in North Adams: River Street was laid out in 1836, and over the next decade, ten mills were built along the opposite banks of the Hoosac River. The building is named for Nathaniel Hathaway, one of the mill proprietors, and is one of two identical buildings that are among the worker housing units they built. (The other building originally stood next door, was extensively altered in the 20th century, and has subsequently been demolished.) When Hathaway retired from the mill partnership, he and his wife occupied one of the units in this building. It was later owned by another mill proprietor, T.F. Loftus, who probably added the porches and made other alterations.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Road Freight House in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad  in 1923 to store and ship freight. The building is single storey, rectangular, and constructed of brick. Offices were placed at one end with warehouse space occupying the rest of the building. Large freight doors and bays are along each side. The circa 1915 depot is located east of the freight house.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Road built its line from eastern South Dakota to Rapid City in 1906–07. With the increase of tourists in the late 1910s, the railroad built the freight house. It was built of brick. The design was a modern one, based on other early 20th century commercial buildings. When The Milwaukee Road went bankrupt and abandoned its lines in South Dakota in 1980, it sold the freight house to local businesses for use as offices.</p><br>
<p>The freight house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its association with The Milwaukee Road and railroad development in South Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The Hoosac Street School is a historic school building at 20 Hoosac Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1887, it is a good local example of transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival architecture, and a significant reminder of the town&#39;s rapid growth in the late 19th century. It was listed on the National Historic Register in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Hoosac Street School stands in a mixed residential and commercial area east of Adams&#39; downtown area, at the northeast corner of Hoosac and North Hoosac Streets. It is a two-story brick structure with a hip roof topped by a cupola. The main facade is divided into three sections, the center one, which contains the entrance, projecting slightly. The flanking sections have pairs of sash windows on each level; the center section has the entrance, flanked by small windows and sheltered by a small gabled portico, on the first level, and a double window topped by an elliptical window flanked by narrow windows of equal height on the second.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1887, when Adams was experiencing burgeoning growth due to the growth of its industrial capacity. In addition to general population growth occasioned by the improved economy, the need for additional schools was prompted by state requirements mandating education for children to the age of sixteen. Along with several other schools of the period that have survived, it was built in a Queen Anne/Stick style. It was designed by Charles Rathbun of Pittsfield, and completed at a cost of $20,000. The land it occupies was previously farmland. It remained in use as a primary school until 1981, when all of the town&#39;s elementary schools were consolidated into a single facility. In 1985 the building was converted into 12 two bedroom apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Hyde House is a historic house at 144 West Park Street in Lee, Massachusetts. built in 1792 for the town&#39;s first minister and subsequently altered significantly, it is important for its historical association with education in the town, hosting a boarding school in the 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hyde House is located west of Lee&#39;s main village, on the north side West Park Street, just east of its junction with St. James Avenue. It is set well back from the street, with a front yard of grass dotted with mature trees. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The front roof face is pierced by two gabled dormers. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by fluted pilasters and topped by a gabled pediment. The interior basically follows a center hall plan, but its original center staircase has been removed. Despite that and other alterations, the interior retains six working original fireplaces, and wide pine flooring.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1792 as the home of Lees first minister, Alvan Hyde. Rev. Hyde served as minister to Lees First Congregational Church for 41 years; the house eventually passed to his son, Alexander, who opened a school at the residence. The "Hyde House Boarding School for Boys" drew students from as far off as Boston, New York City, and Chicago; among its notable students was James Roosevelt, father of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At this time an academic wing was added to the back of the house, with a schoolroom on the lower floor and student bedrooms above.</p><br>
<p>Hyde School is a historic Romanesque Revival school at 130 High Street in Lee, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1894 from locally quarried marble. It is named for Alexander Hyde, who established the towns first school in his house on West Park Street, and was built on the site of the towns first public school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Lee, Massachusetts was incorporated in 1777, and quickly became known as a center of the papermaking industry. Marble quarried in the area achieved a reputation for strength and quality in the 19th century, seeing use in a number of high-profile buildings, including the United States Capitol and the Massachusetts State House. The town&#39;s first secondary school was established by Alexander Hyde, son of its first minister, in his house on West Park Street. Townspeople not long thereafter banded together to form the private Lee Academy on a parcel of land above the town center. Lee Academy was gradually transferred to town ownership, and became its public grammar school. It was destroyed by fire in February 1894.</p><br>
<p>The town had the new Hyde School constructed on the original site of Lee Academy in 1895; it was dedicated to Alexander Hyde. It was designed by James Bryning and constructed of locally quarried marble, a response to several high-profile fires in the town, at a cost of $30,000. It served as the town&#39;s high school until 1916, when Rice High School was built. It then served as an elementary school until 2003, when it was taken out of academic service. The building was enlarged by an addition in 1936 that added a library and gymnasium, and again in 1977 when the Rice School was demolished.</p><br>
<p>The building is now known as Crossway Village, and includes a senior housing complex and senior center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The school sits on an irregular parcel of land on a rise above Main Street in Lee. The original 1895 building is sited at the end of Academy Street, and the 20th-century additions, located to its south and east, do not intrude on the view. The three-story building was built in a cross-shaped plan, with a seven-bay core section, and wings three bays wide. A four-story tower rises above the center of the front facade. The exterior wall and trim work is all of local marble. The original slate roof was replaced in 1994 with asphalt shingles, at which time the building was also equipped with gutters and downspouts. At the time of its National Register nomination, the exterior marble had never required maintenance.</p><br>
<p>Inside the main building, each floor had six classrooms, and the layout remains fairly intact. The classrooms retained their blackboards and much of the original woodwork. The original floors were covered by vinyl tiling. In the front entry, one of the two stairs was removed to comply with modern fire codes, but the other retains its original woodwork.</p><br>
<p>In 1936 a two-story addition was added to the southeast corner of the building. This addition, built with a steel frame, housed classrooms on both levels, and a gymnasium/auditorium complex. This construction was faced with Lee marble and trimmed with Indiana limestone in a style sympathetic to that of the main building. A corridor connecting the two sections was added in 1976, when fire code necessitated the removal of some wooden stairs from the main building. A modern 1977 classroom addition further extended the 1936 addition.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson Manufacturing Company was a historic mill complex at 65 Brown Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. Developed beginning in 1872 and enlarged through the early 20th century, it was at the time of its 1985 listing on the National Register of Historic Places a well-preserved example of late 19th century industrial architecture, used for the production of textiles for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Johnson Manufacturing Company complex was located west of downtown North Adams, on a parcel of 4.6 acre bounded on the east by Brown Street, the north by the Hoosac River (which initially provided the mill&#39;s power), and the south by railroad tracks. The complex included a main three-story mill building built in 1872, to which a number of smaller buildings were built on in the following decades. Most of the buildings exhibited modest Italianate styling typical of late 19th century mill construction. At the front of the complex stood a 1-1/2 story office building, built about 1880 to a design by Marcus F. Cummings, a prominent mill designer from Troy, New York.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson Manufacturing Company was founded in 1850 by Sylvander Johnson, Nathaniel G. Hathaway, George W. Bly, and Peter Blackinton. The company acquired an existing print shop on this site, and produced cotton textiles until 1871, when it was destroyed by fire. They then built the main mill, consolidating operations from other sites in North Adams, and modernizing its technology. The company produced textiles here until 1937, when it was sold to the Sprague Electric Company. Sprague produced gas masks on the site during World War II, and then converted it to the production of specialized materials used in electrical capacitors. Industrial toxic wastes dumped at the site during this period resulted in a contaminated groundwater plume, necessitating the demolition of nearby houses. The site was shuttered in 2001, its last occupant having been Commonwealth Sprague. The property underwent remediation to deal with the toxic legacy, and the buildings were demolished in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Johnson School is a historic former school building on School Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1898, this Romanesque Revival school is a significant work of the prominent local architect Edwin Thayer Barlow. It was the last of the city&#39;s neighborhood schools to be closed. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is now used for Head Start and other social programs.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Johnson School is located on the north side of School Street, occupying the entire block between Williams and Cady Streets in the city&#39;s Amity Square neighborhood. It is a two-story brick building, with a hip roof and granite foundation, with red sandstone trim elements. The roof is pierced on three sides by gabled center sections, that on the southern side, over the main entrance, more prominent than the others. The main facade is nine bays wide, the central three (below the gable) slightly recessed. Windows in the outer bays are set in segmented-arch openings, with sandstone sills and brick lintels with slightly projecting keystones. Windows in the central section are set in square openings with stone lintels and sills, except in the gable, where there are three windows set in round-arch openings. The main entrance is recessed in a round-arch opening with brick pilasters at the corners. The interior of the school retains significant original finishes.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1896 to a design by Edwin Thayer Barlow, a prominent local architect, at a time when the surrounding neighborhood was experiencing significant growth. In 1924 the school was enlarged, to a sympathetic design by Springfield architect Newton Bond. The school was one of the last neighborhood school in North Adams to be closed, and is now used for Head Start and other social programs.</p><br>
<p>The Jones Block is a historic commercial building at 49–53 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built about 1895, it is one of a small number of surviving commercial buildings from the town&#39;s most rapid period of growth. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jones Block is located in the town center of Adams, on the east side of Park Street north of town hall. It is a three-story brick structure, topped by a flat roof, with a decorative band and dentil molding at the roof line. The ground floor consists of two storefronts, framed by cast iron paneled columns, on either side of a central building entrance. Second and third floor windows are set in round-arch openings, those on the second story with sandstone keystones. It is one of the four brick buildings on Park Street, along with the P. J. Barrett Block, Armory Block, and the Mausert Block.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1895 for Albert Jones, a clerk in a local clothing retailer. Originally two stories in height, it housed that store on the ground floor, and the local Hibernian Hall on the second floor. The third floor was added in the early 20th century, using matching materials and styling to the original construction, and replicating its original cornice. The styling and placement of the third floor windows suggest that it was also used as a meeting space; it is not known whether Jones had planned for the expansion when the structure was originally built.</p><br>
<p>The building has been vacant for over 20 years since 1996, when a devastating fire on the second and third floor almost resulted in demolition of the building. Attempts by numerous developers to renovate the building have not been successful.</p><br>
<p>Kenmore is a historic house  at 1385 State Road  in Richmond, Massachusetts. It was built by Henry Sherrill, one of Richmond&#39;s early settlers, and is a fine example of transitional Georgian-Federalist architecture. The house has retained much of its historic integrity despite significant renovation and modernization in the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kenmore, a two-story five bay wood-frame house, was built c. 1792 for Henry Sherrill, an American Revolutionary War soldier who was first exposed to the area as a refugee from Long Island, which was under British occupation during the war. Sherrill became a merchant, operating a store in town. Sherrills success in business is shown by the size of the house and the quality of its workmanship, which are locally rivalled only by Goodwood, built by Sherrills builder Jerimiah Peirson around the same time. Sherrill&#39;s daughter married eventual Goodwood owner, the Rev. Edwin Welles Dwight.</p><br>
<p>Owners or occupants of the house during the 19th century include Selden Jennings, the local physician, and Jared Reid Jr., principal of a Stockbridge school; Reid was married to Henry Sherrill&#39;s granddaughter. The Reids operated a successful boarding school on the property, and were responsible for naming the property "Kenmore". The Reids expanded their offerings in the 1880s to include summer art school at the urging of their son Robert. Sessions were coordinated by Frederic Crowninshield, and students included Daniel Chester French, Newton Mackintosh, and their son Robert, who later gained notice as a painter.</p><br>
<p>In 1931 the property was acquired by Richard Harrison, a successful New York businessman, as a summer house. He had the house plumbing and electrical systems upgraded, and had a guest house and chicken coop built on the property. He also hired New York landscape designer Noel Chamberlain to oversee the landscaping of the property. Harrison&#39;s modifications to the house are notable for their sensitivity in preserving the integrity of the early Federal and Georgian details in the house, resulting in a blending of original details and later Colonial Revival designs.</p><br>
<p>The property was sold by the Harrison estate in 1938 to Reverend E. Pomeroy Cutler. Cutler operated the property as a boarding house, at which time it came to be used by a number of high-profile musical tenants associated with nearby Tanglewood, which began operations in 1937. This use continues to this day under its current owners. Notable residents and visitors to the house have included Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller, and Olga Naumova Koussevitsky, widow of conductor Serge Koussevitsky.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Kenmore was purchased in January 2018 By fashion designer Frank Muytjens and Artist and entrepreneur Scott Edward Cole. After an extensive restoration to the historic property, Kenmore has been transformed into a bespoke luxury inn, The Inn at Kenmore Hall.</p><br>
<p>Lenox Academy is a historic school building at 65 Main Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. Built in 1802-03 as a private academy, it was the first secondary school to open in Berkshire County. It was subsequently used as the town&#39;s high school, and now houses offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Lenox Academy building stands on the western edge of the commercial center of Lenox, on the west side of Main Street between Sunset and Cliffwood Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The hip roof is truncated and topped at the center by a two-stage belfry. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows in the outer bays. The center bay has the main entrance on the ground floor, flanked by wide sidelight windows, with pilasters between windows and door, and on the outside of the entry surround. The pilasters rise to an entablature and projecting cornice with a gable peak at the center. Above the entrance is a Palladian window, its side windows also articulated by pilasters and crowned by a corniced entablature.</p><br>
<p>The Federal style building was constructed in 1803 and the school incorporated the same year. The structure house a private academy until 1866. It served as the town&#39;s public high school from 1869 to 1879, at which time it was closed for repairs and renovations. In 1888 it again began to serve as the high school, a role it fulfilled until 1908. A private school, the Trinity School, used the property from 1911 until the 1920s, when that school failed.</p><br>
<p>The building then sat vacant and deteriorated, until the defunct academy, under threat of demolition, was turned over to the town for preservation. It now serves as an office building for local civic groups.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>William H. Dillingham, Pennsylvania state politician and lawyer</p><br>
<p>The Old Lenox High School building, also formerly known as the Lenox Elementary School and the Marguerite E. Cameron Elementary School, is a historic school building at 109 Housatonic Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in 1908, and housed the town&#39;s high school until 1966, when Lenox Memorial High School opened. The building had been converted into an assisted living facility, and then converted again in 2017 into low-income-housing apartments for seniors - now known as Lenox Schoolhouse Apartments. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Lenox High School building is located east of downtown Lenox, on the north side of Housatonic Street at its western junction with High Street. It is a 2-1/2 story masonry structure, built out of red brick with terra cotta trim. It is a basically T-shaped building, with the top of the T serving as the main facade. It consists of a central horizontal main section, with flanking wings that project slightly, from which a long addition extends to the rear. The main entrance is at the center, sheltered by a rectangular portico with paired Doric columns and set recessed in a round-arch opening. Above the entrance is a tall three-part window, and the bay is crowned by a gable.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1908 to a design by John W. Donohue of Springfield, and is a good local example of large-scale Colonial Revival architecture. The school replaced the former Lenox Academy building, which had served as the towns public high school since 1869 (and as a private high school since the academys founding in 1803). This building underwent major renovations and additions in the 1940s and 1960s. The building was then used as school facilities for grades 4 through 6 until the 1970s, when (known as the Cameron School) it began to serve grades 2 through 5. The school was closed in 1998.</p><br>
<p>After three years of vacancy, the building was repurposed for use as an assisted living facility. In 2017, the building was renovated into a 38-unit apartment community for seniors.</p><br>
<h2>Alumni</h2><br>
<p>Jennie Louise Touissant Welcome</p><br>
<p>Lenox station is a former Housatonic Railroad train station in Lenox, Massachusetts. Built in 1902, it served as the town&#39;s railroad station, on a line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, until 1970. Now home to the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum, it serves as a stop on the heritage railroad service provided by the museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Lenox Railroad Station.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Lenox Railroad Station is located in eastern Lenox, at the northeast corner of Housatonic Road and Willow Creek Road. The railroad tracks run between the station and Woods Pond, a wide bulge in the Housatonic River. The station itself is stories in height, with attached covered passenger shelters extending along the platform to the north and south. The station is Tudor Revival in style, with a stucco and false half-timbered exterior.</p><br>
<p>The station was built in 1902 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (or New Haven Railroad), replacing the one that had been built around 1850 by the Stockbridge & Pittsfield Railroad and which had burned to the ground the previous year. It is architecturally unusual in the region, where the Tudor Revival was not commonly seen in railroad station architecture. The station and line were acquired by the Housatonic Railroad, which became the Berkshire Division of the New Haven Railroad in 1892.</p><br>
<p>From 1937 the Tanglewood hosted summer music events five miles to the west of the station. In peak mid-20th century years of passenger service, the Berkshire, Housatonic, Litchfield, Mahaiwe, Mahkeenac, Taconic, Umpachanee, and unnamed trains on the New Havens Berkshire Division made stops at the station on trips between New York City and Pittsfield. The station went out of full year service in 1958; thereafter, trains made stops at the station only from May 26 to October 26. The last summer of passenger service was 1970, prior to Amtraks assuming the Penn Central&#39;s operation of intercity trains on May 1, 1971. It now serves as the home of the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum.</p><br>
<p>Lower Historic District is a historic district on Washington Mountain Road in Washington, Massachusetts. The district encompasses four homesteads built between 1765 and 1803, including the town&#39;s oldest house. The houses are clustered along a stretch of Washington Mountain Road near the town line with Becket, and represent one of its first places of settlement. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Land grants in the area that is now the town of Washington were first made in 1763. One of the first ten grants was made to William Milliken, who built the house at 1796 Washington Mountain Road not long afterward. Between then and the early 19th century, Milliken was joined by three other settlers in the immediate area, which is set on a terrace on the southeastern slope of Washington Mountain (elevation 1,600 ft). This dispersed rural development was typical of the region in the period, but has in many instances been lost due to infill development. In this area, the soil was never very good for agriculture, and the properties changed hands numerous times. The area also lacked resources for industrial development, and was bypassed by the railroads, all of which were factors that effectively precluded later development.</p><br>
<p>The district extends along Washington Mountain Road, north from the town line with Becket. Its principal surviving built resources are four houses, of which the Milliken house is the only one that predates American independence. The other three were built in the late 18th or early 19th century, and are examples of vernacular Federal period architecture. All are of wood-frame construction, with clapboarded exteriors; one is stories in height, while the other three are stories. There is also a 19th-century barn associated with one of the houses.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District is a historic district encompassing the scenic and historic portions of Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The downtown portion of Main Street is widely recognizable due to its use by Norman Rockwell in his 1967 painting, Main Street, Stockbridge at Christmas. The central portion of Main Street is a broad street with wide green lawns, anchored by a traditional New England town center containing a church and municipal buildings. Along this part of Main Street is the Mission House, a National Historic Landmark that is one of oldest buildings in Stockbridge, dating to the early 1740s. Further to the west the road is more rural, and the district&#39;s western boundary is at the crossing of Main Street over the Housatonic River. The eastern part of the district includes the retail heart of the town, including the Red Lion Inn and several blocks of shops. The far eastern part of the district is Laurel Hill, a wooded park with views of the town center. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Stockbridge area has a significant prehistory of Native American use, with archaeological evidence of human use on at least a seasonal basis dating back for centuries. In the early 18th century it was settled by Mahican Indians who had been driven from the Hudson River area by conflict with the Mohawks. These uses included the establishment of a Native burying ground, which is within the bounds of this district. In 1734, the Province of Massachusetts Bay founded a "Praying Indian" community, with its main settlement where the downtown area is now. The arrival of English squatters and conflicts over land usage patterns led to the Natives eventually losing control of the community. The area&#39;s colonial settlement accelerated after the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. The Red Lion Inn opened in 1775, and it flourished in the early 19th century as a crossroads community not far from the county seat at Lenox.</p><br>
<p>The Maplewood Hotel is a historic residential hotel at 328-330 Maple Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Consisting of two buildings dating to the late 19th century, it was the first residential building of its type in the city, built by local industrialist Frank Beebe, who occupied one of its units. When opened, it offered high quality furnished and unfurnished residences in a full-service environment. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It continues to be used for residences.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Maplewood Hotel is located on Maple Street in downtown Holyoke, at the corner of Essex Street and overlooking Library Park. It consists of two buildings that have become conjoined by internal connections. The -story brick block at 330 Maple Street was built first, between 1884 and 1889, while the four-story building at 328 Maple Street was built c. 1890. The latter was opened as the Maplewood Hotel, providing furnished and unfurnished residences to middle and upper class residents of the city. In 1924 the two buildings were joined by connections through their adjacent walls.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was the brainchild of industrialist Frank Beebe, whose father had started Holyokes Beebe and Webber textile mills. Beebe took over his fathers businesses, and expanded them, increasing the family fortune. He retired from that business in 1901, devoting himself to philanthropic endeavours. He gave the Maplewood to a social services organization in 1921, which effected the combination of the two buildings, and promoted Beebe&#39;s philosophies of better living and self-help to its tenants and the community.</p><br>
<p>The Mausert Block is a historic commercial building at 19—25 Park Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Built in 1900-01, it is a prominent local example of Romanesque Revival architecture. It is one of the four brick buildings on Park Street along with the P. J. Barrett Block, Jones Block, and Armory Block, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mausert Block is located in the town center of Adams, on the east side of Park Street roughly opposite town hall. It is a three-story brick building with a twelve-bay facade and a flat roof with a projecting modillioned and dentillated cornice. Windows on the second floor are rectangular, with rough-cut stone sills and lintels, while those on the third floor have round-arch tops with keystones. The ground level is divided into multiple storefronts, with the main building entrance near the center, recessed in a round-arch openings. A secondary round-arch opening at the southern end of the building provides access to a small retail space.</p><br>
<p>The Mausert Block was built in 1900 and 1901 by George and Conrad Mausert, brothers and local businessmen. Walter J Donovan established his law offices on the second floor from 1920 until 1970. F.W. Woolworth moved into 19-21 Park Street in 1930s. It once contained the Adams Masonic Hall, and the town&#39;s first telephone exchange.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the building was formally condemned, although its tenants were not evicted, the building became vacant soon after. It was purchased by Braytonville Properties in 2011, and rehabilitation begun in 2012 with the completion of new storefronts along Park Street. Working through a number of challenges including a court case and the covid pandemic, ten new apartments were completed in 2022. The project included integrated local art in common spaces and featured restored stained glass windows. The historical rehabilitation received the Robert H. Kuehn award for melding collaborative partnerships with creative and cutting-edge ideas and also the People&#39;s Preservation Choice Award.</p><br>
<p>The Merrell Tavern, known more recently as the Merrell Inn, is a historic tavern at 1565 Pleasant Street  in South Lee, Massachusetts. Built in 1794 as a residence, it has served for most of two centuries as a local traveler&#39;s accommodation, and retains fine Federal period architectural details. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It continues to serve its historic function, and is now operated as a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Merrell Tavern is located on the south side of Pleasant Street, near the western end of the roughly linear village. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof and brick sidewalls. The main facade is covered by a two-story porch extending across its full width. The porch is supported by tapered square columns on the first level, and round Doric columns on the second.</p><br>
<p>The tavern was built as a residence in 1794 by Joseph Whiton, a local militia commander. It was one of the first brick houses of the Federal period in the region, with some of its design elements taken from the published drawings of Asher Benjamin. It was acquired in 1815 by the Merrell family, who would operate it has a tavern for over a century. The Merrells enlarged the building, adding its third story ballroom and its two-story porch in 1838. The inn&#39;s taproom is remarkably well-preserved, with nearly all of its original features intact, including painted oak graining.</p><br>
<p>The inn was acquired in the 20th century by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England, or HNE), which operated it as one of its museum properties for a time. It has since been sold into private ownership, with preservation easements held by HNE.</p><br>
<p>The Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District is a historic district extending through parts of the towns of Chester, Middlefield, and Becket, Massachusetts. The district encompasses a 3.7 mi stretch of railroad right of way in which there are ten bridge crossings, including nine over the west branch of the Westfield River. The bridges were built in four time periods: 1840, 1866, 1912, and 1928. Nine of the ten bridges are stone or concrete masonry work, and one is a truss girder bridge. All are, with only minor exceptions, in excellent and original condition. The bridges were built to carry the Western Railroad through on its run from the Connecticut River to the Hudson River. This section of railroad was the most expensive the company had to build, costing over $1 million in 1840.</p><br>
<p>The 1840 bridges were designed by George Washington Whistler, and constructed by the firm of Alexander Birney. Of the original nine stone bridges built, only three survive, all of which are now out of service. Some of the bridges were either demolished or encased in concrete during work performed in 1912 and 1927, and one bridge was demolished in 1927. One of the listed bridges (#4) was built of concrete in 1912, adjacent to one of the 1840 stone bridges (#3) that was taken out of service. The one steel truss bridge was built in 1912 by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A hiking trail providing viewing points to the lower seven bridges was opened in 2004. All of the bridges are viewable via whitewater-appropriate watercraft from the river.</p><br>
<h2>Bridge list</h2><br>
<p>Unless otherwise noted, all bridges were in service at the time of the National Register listing (1980), and crossed the West Branch Westfield River.</p><br>
<p>Mill River Historic District is a historic district encompassing the traditional center of government and a former industrial mill village along the Konkapot River in the village of Mill River in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. The district is roughly bounded by Main Street and River Church, Southfield, Clayton, School, and Hayes Hill Roads. It encompasses about 425 acre, and contains mostly 19th century residential and civic buildings, as well as remnants of 19th century industrial activity.</p><br>
<p>The principal defining feature of the district is its narrow setting along the Konkapot River. The significant drop of the river in the area (129 ft over a 1.5 mi stretch of the river) prompted the construction of many dams and mills, of which remnants of eight survive. The housing stock in the village was built mainly in the first half of the 19th century, during the height of industrial activity, and features simple two story wood frame housing, usually with Greek Revival styling. Some houses predate the industrial period, and a number of houses were built later in the 19th century. The village declined in importance as an industrial center after the railroad was built through town, but not near the village, and most of its industrial infrastructure was eventually abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The civic buildings in the district include two Romanesque churches built in the 1860s, as well as the town hall, library, and school. A few commercial buildings from the era have also survived, including the current general store. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Mill Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing a well-preserved 19th century mill village in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is located on Cole Avenue and other streets east of Cole and south of the Hoosac River, which provided the mill&#39;s power. The complex dates to the mid-19th century, and includes tenement houses, housing for supervisors and specialty personnel, as well as a surviving mill building. The village district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Station Mill village occupies about 13 acre on the east side of Cole Avenue, just south of the Hoosac River. The residential portions of the village are characterized by rows of architecturally similar buildings. Most are of wood-frame construction, either one or two stories in height, and house either one or two living units. The village was described in 1878 by a North Adams newspaper as a "model manufacturing community".</p><br>
<p>The original mill building was built in 1866 for a textile business operated by Williams College president Paul Chadbourne. Demand for workers led to a shortage of housing in the area, and a number of tenement-style double housing units were built near the mill by the company. A number of civic buildings, including a church, store, and school were also built to see to the workers&#39; needs.</p><br>
<p>The textile business failed in 1929, and the plant was adapted for the manufacture of photographic paper in the 1930s. That business was shut down in 1989, after which the mill stood vacant. Part of the original 1866 building&#39;s roof collapsed in 2003, and it was subsequently demolished.</p><br>
