F 74 .P6 574 Copy 1 m F*-:?Si:j^i m /^!ip w^i ^f^]j I'l ■TW^;:^ FETTSFEELD ■ .-;Ar;V of GJ.'Ni- ■■. ', wo GOplCS rirtiiiy... j APR 6 it)08 v'j^vfii^i" Ltitrr loL/fesA XXc, N., llTTSFIinjJ c-iijoys a wide reputation for natural attractiveness due to an ever-growing- appreciation of its beautiful location as the center of a delightful residential section among the famous Berkshire Hills. The city is situated about fifty miles northwest of Springfield and one hundred and fift>- miles west of Boston on the lines of the New York, Xew Haven ^: Hartford and Boston .S: All>an\- railroads. It is the count>' seat of Berkshire county. I'ittsfield was first settled in 174,i and was then known as the Boston Plantation and I'ontoosuck. The name was permanently fixed as Pittsfielil when the \illa,t;e grew to be a town in 1701. The town received a city charter in isoi. The cit>- as presently constituted now contains sexeral small villa.ges within the corporate limits. Pittsfield is well-known in the business world as the home of many prosperous industrial establishments, among which are foundry and machine shops, silk, cotton, woolen, stationery and paper mills, shoe, autmobile, and under- wear factories, electrical machiner> and supply works, without mentioning in detail a number of minor manufactur- ing plants. The public edifices of the city are many and are worthy of special mention for the refined style of architecture characteristic of them all. Its educational buildings are without a peer in western Massachusetts: its splendid church structures and lienevolent in.stitutions testify to the high moral tone of the communit>-; paved streets and three well- kept ijul)lic parks are conxincin.g proof of the civic pride of the citizens. Pittsfield is rapidly earning a deserved fame as a popular summer resort. Its location, over one thousand feet above the sea-level, amid the wind-swept Berkshires, affords to the weary health or pleasure-seeker an opportunity to enjoy rest or recreation — breathing Nature's jnirest ozone — without any of the discomforts inseparaljle from a popular seaside resort. In the golden age of American literature Pittsiield was for a time the home of l.ongfellow and of ( )li\er Wendell Holmes. vSince then its beaut\' has ajipealed to hundreds of admirers, who, although their business interests ma\- be located in greater cities, have been satisfied to make their real home in or near this peerless (rem of the Berkshires. IP^Mnsfeedl by EMGLAND BEOTHEIRi (•<.].yiit;lit.. V.KiT, I'.llis, 1>> I.. U. Ni'lsmi Co.. Pultl.-lliil. Me. XOKTH.STUr.KT l-f)OKlXll XOKTH "tCiT ,, ,__;u"lif ».3 -" *" ^jJij'^Sq ill LSi Ci- i.i»: fc*«j>M^ NURTH STREET FKoM TOl" OK W ENDELL HKTKL MONUMK.NT I'AKK ANU BERKSHIRE COUNTY bAVl.NGS liASK UllLUlNG UKKKSiiii;i: atiii:n I I M (HANK MrSliTM OF NATIKAI. HISTORY AMi ART OH.OXIAl- THEATRE ( ()i:nthv (H"i; BERKSHIRE LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING KAST STRKKT I,l)(ll i l! FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ST. rnARI.ES' CHURCH ST. .lOSKI'irS CHrUCH HISHOr MKMUKIAI. TKAIMMi S( IlOO I'AKOCHIAL SIllOOL OLlJ LAUIES' UOME HOUSE OF MEKCY SOIITH.STKKK'I' l.doMNi; NDKTH \\ KNDF.LL AVKNdK I,( >(.)K INH SllUTII W IM.IAM KlISSKLL ALLEN RKSIDKNCK LONUFELLOWS IIOMK FKANKLIN WESTON'S KESIUKNCE East Housatonic Street. BISllOl' WOKTIlINfJTON'S SUMMER HO.ME East Street. IIOL.MESllAl.K THE ZKNAS IliANE UESIUEM E (iATKW AV AT KNTKANCF. TO lMTTSl-1 Kl,l ) ( KMKTKKY SHAKEK VILLAGE UN OTA l^VKE ONTOOSnC LAKE Constitution Hill and Greylock in the Distance. I'lTTSFIKl.li lulAT (I.ITB I'ONTHOsri t.AKIC 6 \9'08 WAIICONAll KALLS BALANCK ROCK