North Egremont Historic District
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The North Egremont Historic District is a historic district in Egremont, Massachusetts. It encompasses a crossroads village in the northern part of the town, where the north-south road, now Massachusetts Route 71, connects Kinderhook, New York to points further south, and the east-west road runs from Hillsdale, New York, toward Housatonic, Massachusetts. The district encompasses some Script error: No such module "convert". along these and other roadways near their junction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
Description and history
Egremont was settled in the mid-18th century, in a basically dispersed rural agricultural pattern. The village of North Egremont began to take shape after a turnpike (now Prospect Lake Road) was built between Hillsdale, New York and Alford, Massachusetts, and another (now Route 71) was built between South Egremont and Kinderhook, New York in 1803. A tavern was built in the area in 1790, and it was served by saw and grist mills on nearby Prospect Lake. A general store opened in 1814; it is still in operation as the Old Egremont Country Store.[2]
The oldest property in the area, a house, has elements dating to 1764, and the district includes three historic church buildings, the oldest being a significantly altered Baptist meetinghouse from 1816. The later churches are an 1887 Baptist church, built as a replacement for the first one, and a Methodist church built in the Renaissance Revival style in 1861. The only other notable institutional building is the wood frame clapboarded North Egremont School, built in 1880.[2]
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