Luxury Berkshire Homes: Massachusetts: Great Barrington

Berkshire Country Homes recommends Great Barrington, Ma. as a teriffic place for your second home.  Whether you love antiquing,  gourmet food, theatre, music, hiking, skiing or just hanging out with family and friends.  Great Barrington Real Estate offers many opportunities for relaxation, culture and outdoor activities. 

Great Barrington is the hub town for the Southern Berkshires.  A very convenient location for a vacation and second home.  It is considered a tri state community on the borders of NY and  CT.  Great Barrington and the satellite towns of  Egremont, Sheffield, Monterey and New Marlborough attracts a robust  second home owner population that likes the peace, serenity, and beauty of the Berkshires coupled with a unique town which is vibrant and sophicticated with superb restaurants, theatre and galleries.  All this within the bucolic Berkshire Hills  known for well over a century as a great place to have a vacation and second home.

There are  many Real Estate opportunities to own a variety of distinctive properties in Great Barrington. Whether you want a home that is updated with up to the minute savy or one you create with your own style.  An abundance of exceptional designers, builders and architects  will help you to create the perfect Berkshire Country Home.

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Great Barrington, Ma. is a town in Berkshire county. It is both a summer resort and home to Ski Butternut.  It is the birthplace of  W.E.B. Dubois, academic and famous civil rights activist. Great Barrington includes the villages of Van Deusenville and Housatonic.

The area was originally called Mahaiwe by The Mahican Indians meaning  "the place downstream."  It was located on a path that connected Albany with Springfield and then Boston. The village was first settled in 1726, and in 1761 was officially incorporated as Great Barrington, named after the village of Great Barrington in England

In the summer of 1774 what is now Town Hall was the center for the first open and armed resistance to British Rule., 1,500 men shut down the Berkshire County Court in response to British Oppression.

In the winter of 1776 Henry Knox passed through Great Barrington while transporting the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to the Siege of Boston which established an agricultural interest in the area of Great Barrington.

With the arrival of the railroad, Great Barrington developed into a Gilded Age resort community. Many wealthy families wanting relief from the heat and pollution of the city built grand homes called Berkshire Cottages here, as others would in Lenox and Stockbridge. David Leavitt NYC Banker, industrialist and art patron had one of the earliest estates an elaborate 300-acre property, he was soon followed by those of his sons nearby. Leavitt was instrumental in the development of the Housatonic Railroad, serving as its president.  Other later estates included Searles Castle, commissioned in 1888 by the widow of Mark Hopkins together with her second husband, Edward Searles, and Brookside which was built for William Hall Walker.  Colonel William L. Brown, part owner of the New York Daily News, built Locustwood on Silver Street, and in 1895 presented the town of Great Barrington with a statue of a newsboy, now a landmark on the western edge of town

In March 1886 Great Barrington's  Main Street was the first in the United States to have electric lights the water mill at Great Barrington was the site of an experiment that first used water to drive an alternating current generator. A transformer was used to increase the voltage and the current was transmitted over a mile away to the nearest town to power street lights..

Today Great Barrington is a vibrant small town which acts as the hub for "South County". Supporting  not only a vibrant year round population but also a large population of second home owners in the surrounding communities. There are over 55 restaurants catering to a wide spectrum of tstes.  The Mahaiwe Theater , which was recently renovated has become a center for year round music and cultural events. Lake Mansfield, a small lake located in town in the section called "On The Hill" has a beachfront for swimming and a lovely picnic area.

The Town is celebrating its 250th anniversary with a large parade in early July 2011. Details to be announced.

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Real Estate in Great Barrington Ma. is getting exciting.  There are some great Homes For Sale in Great Barrington, MA. Todays featured home is a newly built 4 unit cluster condominium.   The design concept of Maple Grove  Condominium takes the Tradtional Saltbox and updates it for today's Contemporary Lifestyle. The designers wanted to create an Open Airy Space,  and  have achieved this by incorporating large windows, and 9ft ceilings into an open floor plan.  An inviting Cooks Kitchen with crisp white cabinetry and Absolute Black Granite Counter Tops,  flow seamlessly into a  comfortable dining area, and then into the main living area. This condominium  in Great Barrington, has a  first floor master bedroom that includes  an exciting oversized bathroom, beautifully tiled with an eye toward harmony with custom sink console, Kohler fixtures and a refreshing shower with a frameless glass door.  A sparkling laundry area is tucked away behind a pocket door. The second floor includes two bright and cheerful bedrooms and bath with an oversized old fashioned pedestal sink and jet tub. There is an additional bonus room on the second floor that can be used for storage, or if  finished can be a fourth bedroom, media room , office or so many other uses. This charming Condominium  in Great Barrington has been beautifully sited to capture a tucked away feel, creating a hamlet with country charm in a very convenient in-town location.  You are a short stroll to Great Barrington Main Street for  theatre, fine dining, galleries and  gourmet shopping.  It is also  a short drive to golfing, boating,  and many other outdoor Berkshire Ma. activities including outdoor trails for hiking,  and winter downhill and cross country skiing. Options include garage and screened porch.  This Great Barrington Condominium is a great opportunity to live the perfect Berkshire Lifestyle in a maintenance free condominium. $339,000

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Great Barrington, Ma is considered one of the best small towns in

New England by Boston Magazine..the articles focus is on Railroad Street

as a destination for terrific restaurants and shopping...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/new_england_travel/articles/new_englands_best_small_towns/page8

Great Barrington, Ma. Real Estate / Living A Country Life  Restaurants have always been a big part of my lifestyle....Here in Great Barrington, Ma. we lost 2 good ones over the last few weeks...One was very sad and untimely, the chef/owner was killed in an automobile accident  Our community has grieved the loss of the young and promising chef /owner Jonathan of Pearls restaurant in Great Barrington, Ma. . The other was Helsinki, although in that case there was talk for a couple years that Club Helsinki was expanding and opening another branch in Hudson. NY. although the original would remain in Great Barrington, Ma.  Over the last couple months the word spread that Helsinki in Great Barrington, Ma. would be closing, and would soon be re-opening in Hudson. NY. It was such a well loved place that the tributes are still being blogged. These 2 restauants were no more then a block away, but were miles a part...Pearls, city slick chrome, leather, glass and rosewood interior, a well dressed, casual and coifed clientele, steaks and chops were their specialty.  Helsinki was bohemian and exotic in its artsy thrown together decor, and patrons. 1 part restaurant/tea room with a finish spin, (think gravlax, borscht) 2nd part music/dance club bringing some of the best country and rock musicians to Great Barrington, Ma.

The one thing both these extablishments had in common though was delicious food.  The food and ambience were so different that they served our community well by offering us different types of experiences.

I had great times at both Pearls and Helsinki, I will truly miss them...Although being true to form i can't  stop thinking about what restaurants are going to open next in Great Barrington, Ma. Today i was walking around Railroad St, and noticed that the old Helsinki is being renovated. More to follow...