St. Peter Catholic Church is located at 213 Main Street in Great Barrington. An earlier St. Peter’s was erected in 1854 at the corner of Cottage and Russell Streets. Construction began on the current church in 1904, using marble quarried in Egremont. The church was dedicated in 1911.
Dedicated July 24, 1913, the Mason Library Great Barrington was designed by Blanchard & Barnes of New York. Mary Augusta Mason, widow of Captain Henry Hobart Mason, left $50,000 to build and furnish the library, which replaced am earlier one located in a clapboard house that had previously stood on the site. The building was rededicated in April, 2007 after extensive renovations that doubled its size and made it handicapped accessible. Continue reading “Mason Library (1913)”
