Main Street, 1829

As the summer starts to slow down, children begin to return to school, and the cool of autumn begins to slowly creep in, we see a change in the Main Street of Stockbridge.

This sketch, dated 1829, shows a Main Street of Stockbridge that is both historically unique and yet identifiable still today. Drawn from the corner of Main and Pine Streets, the image looks down towards the library and we can make out one of the early structures of the Red Lion Inn peeking through the trees, as well as Cyrus Williams’s newly built Housatonic Bank with its pillars and the new country store.

Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Photography Collection 1994.345