Stockbridge Casino and Mission House

In August of 1926, it was announced that Mabel Choate had purchased the former home of missionary Reverend John Sergeant for the purpose of turning it into a public museum. The museum was dedicated to the memory of her father, New York City lawyer and former Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joseph H. Choate.

You may know this museum as Stockbridge’s Mission House located at 19 Main Street.

The Newspaper announcement stated that H.D. Sleeper of Boston would oversee the restoration work and that the building would be moved to Main Street where the Stockbridge Casino was then located. The new location of the Mission House meant that the Stockbridge Casino would also need to be moved. The Casino was moved to the east end of Main Street.

This week’s pictures show the Stockbridge Casino in its location at the corner of Main Street and Casino Street, as well as the only photograph of the Mission House and the Stockbridge Casino in the same site, with the Casino in the process of being moved.

Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Post Card Collection – 1995.158

Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Photography Collection – 1972.002.25