Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Jacob's Pillow is a campus of theaters, dance studios, cabins, barns and farmhouses on a hilltop in Becket, Massachusetts, with cleared views west toward the Berkshire Hills and woodland on the other sides. It covers about 150 acres and holds buildings from about 1789 to the 1990s. Two Federal-style farmhouses, the Stephen Carter House and the Carter-Chaffee-Derby House, anchor the grounds, while early 19th-century barns served as models for later construction. Craftsman-style stone and wood buildings from the 1930s include a dining room and dancers' cabins. The Ted Shawn Theatre of 1942 forms one side of a C-shaped group of barn-like buildings around a tea garden. Later studios, cabins, an outdoor stage and an exhibition barn follow the same rural vernacular theme. The district was listed because it houses the dance festival founded by Ted Shawn and keeps the farm landscape, stone walls and orchards that shaped how the artists worked.