Stockbridge Casino

Stockbridge Casino
Stockbridge Casino
Location Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°16′56″N 73°18′6″W / 42.28222°N 73.30167°W / 42.28222; -73.30167Coordinates: 42°16′56″N 73°18′6″W / 42.28222°N 73.30167°W / 42.28222; -73.30167
Built 1887
Architect McKim,Mead & White
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP Reference #

76000249

[1]
Added to NRHP August 27, 1976

The Stockbridge Casino is a historic building now at East Main Street at Yale Hill Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Designed by Stanford White, the casino was built in 1887 on Main Street at the base of Prospect Hill, and for many years was a popular recreational and social attraction (according to older usages of the word "casino", it was not necessarily a gambling establishment). After falling into decline, the property was purchased in 1927 by Mabel Choate, owner of the nearby Naumkeag estate. She sought the property as a location for the Mission House, and was not interested in the casino building. She sold it for $1 to businessman and artist Walter Leighton Clark on the condition that it be moved. Together with sculptor Daniel Chester French and Dr. Austen Fox Riggs,[2] he founded the Three Arts Society, which purchased the building and moved it to its current location. The building was renovated and reopened in 1928 as the Berkshire Playhouse, which later became the Berkshire Theatre Festival.[3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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References

  1. ↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ http://www.berkshireweb.com/culture/index.html
  3. ↑ http://www.berkshiretheatre.org/history/index.php


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