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North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area . Its population was 12,961 as of the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
The Freeman's Grove neighborhood is located north of downtown North Adams, on the hills rising north of the east-west flowing North Branch Hoosic River.. Named after the Freeman Grove Manufacturing Company, the neighborhood combined raw houses built for the company’s workers aside spacious Victorian homes for the upper classes The housing stock in the district includes single- and multiple ...
The Church Street–Cady Hill Historic District, originally known as the Church Street Historic District, is a historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts.It was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and was expanded and renamed in 1985. [1]
Lithograph of Blackinton from 1889 by L.R. Burleigh with list of landmarks. The neighborhood where the historic district is located is around the mills of the Blackinton Company, founded on the north bank of the Hoosic River in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White. [3]
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts.It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the United States.
Three years later, traffic within the tunnel was so heavy, at 70,000 cars a month, that the power plant in Adams, with its 6000 kW generator, could not keep up. Power was then drawn from a nearby dam three miles (5 km) north of the eastern entrance. In 1926, 3,000 feet (910 m) of the western end of the tunnel were deepened by 1.5 feet (0.46 m).
Natural Bridge State Park is a Massachusetts state park located in the city of North Adams in the northwestern part of the state. Named for its natural bridge of white marble, unique in North America, the park also offers woodland walks with views of a dam made of white marble, and a picturesque old marble quarry.
The Normal School Historic District is a historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts.It consists of a group of ten buildings located along Church Street, roughly from Bradley Street in the south to Murdock Hall on the campus of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in the north.