Old Curtisville Historic District

Old Curtisville, also known as Interlaken, is a rural village district northwest of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, spread over 170 acres along Route 183 and Willard Hill Road. It contains 53 structures, mostly two-story Federal and Greek Revival houses, plus the sites of about 20 mills and other buildings. Notable buildings include the 1870 French Second Empire Citizens Hall, the 1826 brick Congregational Church, Burrall's Store and Post Office, and the 1833 Curtisville Inn with its Greek fretwork detail. The village grew around seven small mills, with a chair factory, foundry, distillery and other works in the late 1820s and 1830s. The railroad bypassed it, so growth slowed and the setting stayed largely intact. After the Civil War the Pagenstacher mill, the first wood-pulp paper mill in America, operated here briefly. Stone dams, raceways and a stone bridge survive. The artist Ammi Philips once lived in the district.