{"nrhp_refnum":"76000249","name":"Stockbridge Casino","other_names":["Berkshire Playhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main St. at Yale Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stockbridge","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.28226947100006,"lon":-73.30115443999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame building with a hip roof and elliptical cupola on East Main Street at Yale Hill Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1887-1888 to a McKim, Mead and White design as a social club, it was moved to its present site in 1928 and converted into a playhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant as the work of the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White and for its long role as a center of Stockbridge culture and entertainment. It first served as a summer residents' social club, then as the Berkshire Playhouse, a well-known summer theater that has featured many noted actors.","narrative":"Stockbridge Casino is a two-story, wood frame building with a hip roof, elliptical cupola and two barrel-roofed dormers, standing at East Main Street and Yale Hill Road. Built in 1887-1888 to a design by McKim, Mead and White, it was originally a social club for the area's summer residents, offering tennis, billiards, dances, lectures and art exhibitions. In 1926 the Casino Company sold the property, and local citizens saved the building from demolition by moving it in 1928 from the western end of Main Street to its present site. The portico was enclosed and the entrance shifted to the east side to suit its new role as a playhouse. Since 1928 the Berkshire Playhouse, later home to the Berkshire Theatre Festival, has staged hundreds of productions with performers such as Katharine Hepburn, James Cagney and Ethel Barrymore. The building is valued for its architecture and its cultural role in Stockbridge.","period_of_significance":"1887-1888","architect_builder":"McKim, Mead and White","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (Queen Anne-era features noted in the text)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition, altered and moved; in use as a theater (Berkshire Playhouse) owned by Berkshire Theatre Festival, Inc.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.81447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/86/7941/63794186/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76000249.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000249/fd21758b18-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000249/fd21758b18-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockbridge_Casino,_Stockbridge_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockbridge_Casino,_Stockbridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794186","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge_Casino","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7617941"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/stockbridge-casino-76000249/"}