{"id":7521,"date":"2016-11-13T02:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2016-11-13T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T07:06:19","slug":"blaisdell-wood-brothers-farrell-buildings-1907-1922-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=7521","title":{"rendered":"Blaisdell, Wood Brothers &#038; Farrell Buildings (1907, 1922, 1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/421-445-North.jpg\" alt=\"Haynes-designed Buildings in Pittsfield\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/421-445-North.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/421-445-North-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three buildings on North Street in Pittsfield are depicted in the image above. On the left is <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=I7ZEAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA129&#038;ots=Bg744sTud3&#038;dq=Blaisdell%20block%20pittsfield&#038;pg=PA129#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">the Blaisdell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=PIT.135\">413-419 North Street<\/a>, built in 1907 for the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nlU-iEw_Gt0C&#038;lpg=RA2-PA11&#038;ots=UeoyL91cG3&#038;dq=%22kavy%20co%22%20pittsfield&#038;pg=RA2-PA11#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Blaisdell-Kavy Co.<\/a>, and designed by Pittsfield architect <a href=\"https:\/\/findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=150649254\">George Edward Haynes<\/a>. In the center is the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3o2Cop3fh6wC&#038;lpg=PT61&#038;dq=wood%20brothers%20pittsfield&#038;pg=PT61#v=onepage&#038;q=wood%20brothers%20pittsfield&#038;f=false\">Wood Brothers<\/a> Building, <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=PIT.132\">421-429 North Street<\/a>, also designed by Haynes. It was built in 1922-1923 to house the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodbrosmusic.com\/History.htm\">Wood Brothers music store<\/a>, founded in 1880 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodbrosmusic.com\/\">still in business today<\/a> at another location. The building&#8217;s facade is constructed of 40 tons of cast stone from the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KMEcAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA252&#038;ots=WQQdTdtKQk&#038;dq=Art%20Stone%20Co.%20of%20Millers%20Falls&#038;pg=PA252#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Art Stone Co.<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Millers_Falls,_Massachusetts\">Millers Falls<\/a>. The building on the right, <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=PIT.138\">441-445 North Street<\/a>, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=37ZEAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA54&#038;ots=3P9QQJAojP&#038;dq=Farrell%20Building%20pittsfield&#038;pg=PA54#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Farrell Building<\/a>. Dating to 1913-1915, it is also the work of Haynes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three buildings on North Street in Pittsfield are depicted in the image above. On the left is the Blaisdell, 413-419 North Street, built in 1907 for the head of the Blaisdell-Kavy Co., and designed by Pittsfield architect George Edward Haynes. In the center is the Wood Brothers Building, 421-429 North Street, also designed by Haynes. It was built in 1922-1923 to house the Wood Brothers music store, founded in 1880 and still in business today at another location. The building&#8217;s facade is constructed of 40 tons of cast stone from the Art Stone Co. of Millers Falls. The building on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,104,133,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businesses","category-beaux-arts","category-pittsfield","category-renaissance-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","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=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}