What’s Out There Berkshires Berkshires, MA Dear What’s Out There Weekend Visitor, Welcome to What’s Out There Weekend! The materials in this guide will tell you about the history and design of the places you can tour during this event, the seventh in a series that we offer each year in cities and regions throughout the United States. Please keep it as a reference for future explorations of the Berkshires’ great legacy of significant landscapes. On September 21st and 22nd, 2013, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will host What’s Out There Weekend, providing residents and visitors with opportunities to discover almost three-dozen of Berkshire County’s publicly accessible landscapes through free, expert- led tours. Ranging from working farms to Gilded Age "cottages" to rich cultural offerings in dance, theater, music, and art, the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts offers a wealth of Photo by K. McMahon, courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations Photo by K. McMahon, courtesy of The Trustees cultural landscapes to explore. What's Out There Weekend reveals important sites along the African American Heritage Trail, historic farmsteads and town commons, Jacob's Pillow and Tanglewood performance spaces, and iconic landscape design at Naumkeag and The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home. The tours reveal the history of these valued places and the individuals who designed or made them. The weekend also highlights the Berkshires’ important golf history, with specially arranged tee times at significant courses designed by Wayne Stiles, Donald Ross, A.W. Tillinghast and others. What’s Out There Weekend dovetails with TCLF’s Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive and profusely illustrated searchable database of historic designed landscapes. What's Out There Weekend is coming to the Berkshires through a collaborative partnership with Berkshire Synergy Project (BSP).Through BSP, TCLF has developed an active partnership with Housatonic Heritage’s Heritage Walk program, pairing a long serving regional organization with a national group to celebrate the Berkshires’ unique landscape heritage. The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I thank you for participating in What’s Out TCLF provides the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and There Weekend, and hope you enjoy the tours. its practitioners in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and Sincerely, their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR learn more at tclf.org PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION 2 The Cultural Landscape Foundation www.tclf.org 3 12 Exeter 7A 100 New Boston 125 Rye Beach Saratoga National Historical Park Newfane Putney Manchester 95 Saratoga Stillwater Round Lake West Dover Keene Kingston Hampton North Bennington 67 Country Knolls 3 Rockingham Mechanicville Schaghticoke Hoosick Falls Green Mountain NF Windham Marlborough 101 Hillsborough Cheshire Toll Valley Falls 9 Old Bennington Derry 9 Clifton Park Wilmington West Swanzey Peterborough East Merrimack East Glenville 4 Bennington 9 Wapack NWR Londonderry Amesbury West Brattleboro Brattleboro Wilton 10 Milford Plaistow Salisbury Scotia 7 Bennington Troy 101 Jaffrey Newburyport Schenectady Jacksonville New Hampshire Waterford Hinsdale Salem Niskayuna Cohoes 93 Rotterdam Winchester Haverhill 5 Greenville 495 2 Nashua Hudson Petersburg Stamford Latham Green Island Vermont 12 Parker River NWR list87 of sites Rensselaer Colonie Watervliet Georgetown ➊ Ashintully Gardens p 6-7 Methuen Rowley Troy Williamstown North Adams 91 West Boxford Roessleville➋ Bartholomew'sLoudonville Cobble p 8-9 2 •• Poestenkill 2 Northfield Westmere Winchendon Lawrence 1 ➌ BascomMenand Lodges & Mt. Greylock p 10 •• ➑ North Andover Essex Dunstable Tyngsboro Ipswich Pigeon Cove New York Townsend Shawsheen Village ➍ Berkshire Botanical Garden p 11 8 Pepperell West Andover Boxford Voorheesville Albany West Sand 2 Andover ➎ Bidwell House p 12-13 East Pepperell Rockport Lake 13 Lowell North Tewksbury Topsfield ➏ ChesterwoodRensselaer p 14-45 Cherryplain North Chelmsford 95 Essex Delmar Averill Park ➌ Adams Baldwinville Hamilton South Essex ➐ Elm Court Hampton Manor p 16 2 South Ashburnham Groton Nabnasset Tewksbury Ballardvale Shelburne Falls Chelmsford Wenham ➑ Freight Yard Historic District p 17 Turners Falls Orange Athol Lunenburg Graniteville Middleton South Hamilton Gloucester Albany Greenfield 202 East Greenbush Millers Falls Gardner Fitchburg Forge Village Westford North Billerica 128 Manchester Historic Golf Courses p 18-22 7 North Reading Danvers 9W River Pines Silver Lake Berkshire Ayer South Chelmsford Billerica ➒ Berkshires Hills Country Club 66 Beverly What’s Out There Shirley Wilmington ➓ Country Club of Pittsfield County Littleton Common Middlesex Nutting Lake Lynnfield 22 Franklin Reading ⓫ Cranwell Castleton-on-HudsoGolf Course n Nassau Weekend Leominster Oxbow NWR Carlisle Pinehurst Peabody East Nassau 8 9 Wakefield ⓬ Greenock Country Club Harvard Great Meadows NWR Burlington Salem Marblehead highlights the nation’s rich and diverse landscape Fort Devens (Closed) Still River Bedford ⓭ Stockbridge Golf Club Acton Atlantic ➒ Dalton South Deerfield heritage through a series of free interpretive tours West Acton Stoneham 140 Woburn Swampscott ⓮Ravena Wahconah Country Club Lynn 9 Concord Hanscom AFB ⓱ ⓮ led by expert guides. Hosted in different cities South Acton Winchester Niverville Lexington Melrose Saugus Ocean ⓯ Gould Farm p 23 Pittsfield every year, What’s Out There Weekend brings 110 West Concord •• South Lancaster Bolton Stow Maynard Minute Man National Historical Park ⓰ Hancock Shaker Village p 24-25 20 to light the unique landscape legacy and local Lincoln Malden Nahant •• 495 Medford Valatie North Amherst Barre Worcester Clinton North Sudbury ⓱ Hebert Arboretum at Springside Park p 26 ⓰ 7 ➓ character of each city, defined by its publicly Gleasondale Kinderhook Hudson Revere ⓲ Housatonic River Walk p 27 Toll 20 accessible parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, Pine Rest Great Meadows NWR Everett 8 Pine Lake Somerville Chelsea 122 Waltham ⓳ Ice Glen p 28-29 Lenox Hatfield Amherst memorials, and neighborhoods. An extension Natick Laboratories Military Reservation Sudbury Chatham •• Hampshire Rutland Watertown Winthrop Massachusetts Bay Greene ⓴ Jacob'sCoxsackie Pillow p 30 of the What’sQuabbin Out There Res. database, What’s Out Holden 20 Wayland Weston Cambridge •• ••⓫ South Amherst Marlborough Newton •• Laurel Hill9 Park p 31 There Weekend provides people with new ways to Boston •• Cochituate Lee Town Park & Main Street p 32 ➐•• Northampton experience first-hand the landscapes that they Northborough BrooklineSuffolk ⓬ Southborough Norfolk Hull 87 •• Lime Kiln Wildlife Sanctuary p 33 Lee •• see every day but often overlook. Wellesley Stottville ➍ •• Shrewsbury Fayville •• Mary Flynn Trail Columbiap 34 20 Natick •••• 90 BelchertownTo learn more about the sites in this guide,Massachusetts go ➏⓭ Westborough Cordaville Needham 93 •• MissionLorenz House Park p 35 ••⓳ •• Easthampton Granby Ware Worcester Southville Framingham Athens Photo by Diane Cote online and9 find out about: North Cohasset •• The Mount: Edith Wharton's HomePhilmont p 36-37 •• South Hadley Ashland Glenridge Milton Quincy Hudson Spencer 9 Dover Dedham Hingham Black Rock Jefferson Heights Stockbridge 10 • Individual sites Woodville •• Naumkeag p 38-39 7 East Brookfield Hopkinton Sherborn Minot Red Mills ➊ Islington Braintree U.S. Army Reserve Center Norfolk Catskill 8 Vermont New Hampshire Warren 90 Westwood Shore Acres •• PittsfieldClaverack Park Square p 40 ➎ Westover AFB Bondsville• The site’s designer, type, and style Norfolk North Scituate Hayden Row Holliston Harding •• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute p 41 Great Barrington Albany Holyoke Norwood Weymouth Scituate ork Millbury 140 Liberty Plain • Link to the site’s primary website Auburn Medfield •• Stockbridge Main Street p 42-43Hillsdale ⓲ 23 Three Rivers Greenbush Atlantic Upton Clicquot •• ⓯ O cean West Upton Millis Palmer• Related articles or other materials East Walpole Randolph Accord Norwell 23 New Y •• Tanglewood Music Center p 44-45 Massachusetts Bay Canton Holbrook 3 Monterey ChicopeeBoston on TCLF’s Web site Toll 95 Assinippi •• Tub Parade p 46 Milford West Medway Rockville Walpole North Marshfield Massachusetts Wilbraham Avon Rockland North Hanover 7 Berkshires Hopedale Highland Lake •• Ventfort Hall p 47 Fiskdale Caryville Sharon Stoughton West Hanover Marshfield Hills oll Westfield 20 Oxford T West Springfield Whitinsville Brookville 9G •• Springfield North Bellingham Kent Park Rexhame W.E.B. Du Bois National Historic Site p 48 Visit tclf.org/landscapes Sturbridge Norfolk Abington Hanover Hampden Bellingham South Walpole Marshfield •• Wahconah Ball Park p 49 •• Providence Cape Cod Bay to learn What’s Out There North Pembroke Brant Rock Saugerties Brockton Whitman •• Hartford Southbridge East Douglas Franklin Williams College p 50-51 Agawam East Longmeadow Foxborough Hanson Green Harbor Tivoli Buzzards Provincetown The Olmsted Firm in the Berkshires p 52-53 ➋ Southwick RhodeLongmeadow Island Bay Holland Webster Connecticut 1 Nantucket Sound Duxbury Glasco 22 4 The Cultural Landscape Foundation Canaan www.tclf.org 5 North Truro North Granby 202 South Duxbury Connecticut