{"id":5133,"date":"2012-10-17T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2012-10-17T00:49:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:49:46","slug":"citizens-hall-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5133","title":{"rendered":"Citizens\u2019 Hall (1870)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Citizens-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Citizens\u2019 Hall, Interlaken, Stockbridge\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Citizens-Hall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Citizens-Hall-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=STO.160\">Citizens&#8217; Hall<\/a> is a mansard-roofed Second Empire building located in the former industrial village of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Curtisville_Historic_District\">Curtisville<\/a>, now called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sblanchard.us\/Interlaken\/index.htm\">Interlaken<\/a>, in the town of Stockbridge.  <a href=\"http:\/\/danabixby.com\/media\/2011\/04\/IS183-Elevation-resized.jpg\">Designed<\/a> by Charles T. Rathburn, Citizens&#8217; Hall was built in 1870 as a district schoolhouse, with a public meeting hall on the second floor.  Used less frequently as a meeting place after the town&#8217;s district schools were consolidated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\/worthopedia\/rockwell-citizens-hall-holiday-memories-stockbridge\">the building<\/a> was restored in the 1970s by Old Curtisville, Inc. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sblanchard.us\/Interlaken\/Curtisville\/OldCurtisville.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.is183.org\/\">IS183<\/a>, a non-profit community art school founded in 1991, leased Citizens&#8217; Hall before merging with Old Curtisville, Inc. in 2005.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/danabixby.com\/portfolio\/is183-art-school-of-the-berkshires-historic-restoration\/\">the building<\/a>&#8216;s new owners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.is183.org\/about.php\">IS183<\/a> completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckaroobollywoodball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bldng2.jpg\">exterior<\/a> repairs in May, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens&#8217; Hall is a mansard-roofed Second Empire building located in the former industrial village of Curtisville, now called Interlaken, in the town of Stockbridge. Designed by Charles T. Rathburn, Citizens&#8217; Hall was built in 1870 as a district schoolhouse, with a public meeting hall on the second floor. Used less frequently as a meeting place after the town&#8217;s district schools were consolidated, the building was restored in the 1970s by Old Curtisville, Inc. (pdf). IS183, a non-profit community art school founded in 1991, leased Citizens&#8217; Hall before merging with Old Curtisville, Inc. in 2005. As the building&#8216;s new owners, IS183 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,82,56,183],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-buildings","category-schools","category-second-empire","category-stockbridge","tag-mansard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}