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The Comprehensive Permit Act [1] is a Massachusetts law which allows developers of affordable housing to override certain aspects of municipal zoning bylaws and other requirements. It consists of Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter 40B, Sections 20 through 23, along with associated regulations issued and administered by the ...
The Main Street Historic District encompasses the civic core of Greenfield, Massachusetts, the county seat of Franklin County, Massachusetts.The district includes several blocks of Main Street extending roughly from Chapman Street in the west to Franklin Street in the east, as well as a number of properties facing the common along Bank Row, south of Main Street, and is architecture reflective ...
Location of Franklin County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
Greenfield was one of several Massachusetts municipalities that applied for, and were granted, city forms of government but wished to retain "The Town of" in their official names. [25] In December 2017, the Town Council voted to remove "The Town of" designation, making Greenfield known as the City of Greenfield. [26]
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The East Main–High Street Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Church, High, East Main and Franklin Streets in Greenfield, Massachusetts.It encompasses a predominantly residential area just east of Greenfield's central business district, historically where the town's wealthier residents lived, and features a wide variety of mainly 19th-century residential architecture.
The Mohawk Chambers building housed the offices of W. Edward Benson, one of the city's major real estate developers and land speculators of the period. His activities included the construction of a number of new commercial buildings (including the adjacent Benson's New Block) in downtown Greenfield.
The Franklin County Fair was established in 1848, and originally took place near the Greenfield town center. It was eventually crowded off that land by expansion of the town and the routing of the railroad across part of the grounds, and it moved further out in 1860. The present fairgrounds were established in 1865.