Main Street Shift of 1916

In 1916 the layout of Main Street shifted ever so slightly, in the vicinity of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The Seymour Block, later referred to as the Benjamin Block, made a shift east while the house that is today the St. Paul parsonage shifted west.

Stockbridge has had a long history of moving buildings around to accommodate new, with a couple of sad exceptions like the Jonathan Edwards house and Laurel Cottage.

Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Photography Collection 1994.692