8-681: 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 (IS183, INC). Citizens Hall
16-422: 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. 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
24-457: 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
32-422: Is the town of Stockbridge's water supply. Massachusetts Route 183 transects the community north to south. The road roughly parallels Larrywaug Brook, the outflow of Stockbridge Bowl. In the 18th century, this section of brook was developed industrially, and by the 1820s had at least seven mills, a foundry, distillery, and a thriving village center. The village was bypassed by the railroad, which ultimately led to
40-607: The failure of many of these enterprises. It saw a brief resurgence in its economy after the American Civil War , when the Pagenstacher Paper Mill, the nation's first wood-pulp paper mill, operated here. Like the earlier business, it eventually left the village due to the poor transit situation. Around the turn of the 20th century the village began to be seen as part of the Berkshire's summer resort area. Its post office
48-554: The town's villages. This 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. Interlaken, Massachusetts Old Curtisville Historic District encompasses
56-623: The village center of Interlaken in Stockbridge, Massachusetts . It is historically significant as the site of the first wood-based newsprint paper mill in the United States, and has a well-preserved collection of late 18th and early 19th-century architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The area now known as Interlaken, is located in northern Stockbridge, between Stockbridge Bowl (originally Lake Mahkeenac) and Lake Averic (also known as Echo Lake), which
64-546: Was renamed from Curtisville to Interlaken in 1902. The historic district is roughly triangular in shape, its main axes on Interlaken Road (Route 183), Train Hill Road, and Averic Road. It is about 170 acres (69 ha) in size, with 53 historically significant buildings, and the ruins of upward of twenty water-based mills. Among ts noteworthy historic buildings are the Interlaken Congregational Church (1824),
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