River Street

MORNINGS ON MAPLE STREET

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North Adams - River Street

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River Street has been the most well-defined example of a working-class neighborhood in North Adams ever since Arnold Print Works opened its sprawling factory in the 1860s. The factory, then Sprague Electric Company, closed in 1985, and the street rapidly deteriorated. But it is now recovering, thanks to the work of the grassroots United Neighborhood Organization, the opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 1999 in the former factory, and the opening of the Porches Inn, which occupies six renovated mill houses on River Street.

River Street houses, since renovated as Porches Inn, North Adams (1997)

River Street houses, since renovated as Porches Inn, North Adams (1998)

River Street house, since renovated as Porches Inn, North Adams (1999)

Porches Inn, once a River Street house, North Adams (1999)

River Street tenement, since modestly remodeled, North Adams (1999)

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