The name "Open House" derives from my intention to post new entries for my blog while I conduct open houses for the seven available suites at 433 North -- I not only live here, I am a realtor representing the project. I have just purchased three sandwhich boards to place on the street at random times during the week in the hope of attracting passers by to stop and take a look. When there is no one looking I will write my posts. Hence the name.
This picture shows the sign I've located on the corner
of North Street and Maplewood Avenue. Behind the sign is the Greystone Building, owned by George Whaling. It now houses Bellissimo Dolce, Yoga on North, the Black Market, Greystone Gardens and a dozen or so apartments. When George bought it five or six years ago most people thought he was crazy -- the neighborhood was dreary and nobody came here. Now as I sit here in the lobby people of all sorts are bustling by on the street. George is no longer seen as crazy. Rather he has attained celebrity status locally for being a key driver of the area's new vitality.
Here is the same sign, different angle. In the space between the sign and the park bench you can see one of the many commemorative plaques to be found around Pittsfield. This one memorializes the first ever inter-collegiate baseball game, played on this site July 4, 1859. Amherst College (my alma mater) beat Williams College by the score of 73 to 32. Go, Lord Jeffs!
This picture shows the sign I've located on the corner
of North Street and Maplewood Avenue. Behind the sign is the Greystone Building, owned by George Whaling. It now houses Bellissimo Dolce, Yoga on North, the Black Market, Greystone Gardens and a dozen or so apartments. When George bought it five or six years ago most people thought he was crazy -- the neighborhood was dreary and nobody came here. Now as I sit here in the lobby people of all sorts are bustling by on the street. George is no longer seen as crazy. Rather he has attained celebrity status locally for being a key driver of the area's new vitality.
Here is the same sign, different angle. In the space between the sign and the park bench you can see one of the many commemorative plaques to be found around Pittsfield. This one memorializes the first ever inter-collegiate baseball game, played on this site July 4, 1859. Amherst College (my alma mater) beat Williams College by the score of 73 to 32. Go, Lord Jeffs!
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