to Great Barrington

About Stonegate Mansion

Resort Details:

Room Types: 1 & 2 Bedroom

Seasons: Red June 10-October 14 & December 16-April 01

White: May 13-June 10 & October 14-October 28

Blue: April 01-May 13 & October 28-December 16

Check In/Out Day: Friday

Check In Time: 4:00 PM

Check Out Time: 10:00 AM

Unit Amenities: Kitchen, Dishwasher, Microwave, Telephone

Onsite Amenities: Washer/Dryer, Playground Area, Gas Grills, Laundry

Nearby Amenities: Cross-Country Skiing, Ski School, Hairdresser, Games Room, Grocery Store, Downhill Skiing, Auto Rental, Shopping Area, Spa, Golf, Conference Facilities, Whirlpool/Hot Tub, Medical Facilities, Lake, Racquetball, Water Skiing, Health Club, Child Care, Sauna, Exercise Equipment, Boating, Restaurants & Live Entertainment.


The Mansion

Originally built in the early 1900s, with quality and style, this great home is now 8 unique comfortable condominium units that preserve the charm of the original mansion.

This turn-of-the-century mansion in the southern Berkshires serves as your vacation home at Stonegate. Tour the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, see the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform at Tanglewood, and visit the many antiques shops and cultural attractions that the region hosts. During the winter, head to the mountains and challenge yourself on local ski slopes, only three miles away.

Located in the southwestern corner of Massachusetts, Great Barrington is a quintessential rural town. Great Barrington has successfully maintained its small town charm and character, even as it has grown to meet the business, educational, shopping, entertainment, and recreational needs of residents and visitors in the tri-state region it shares with eastern New York and northwestern Connecticut.

It is a Time Share with over 400 owners. We are not selling any shares at this time but there are weeks available for rent.

We take great pride in Stonegate. We do so to insure that our owners and guests have the best possible time while visiting the Southern Berkshires.

Below is some information on the area. For complete information please visit The Southern Berkshires Chamber of Commerce website...

Great Barrington
Town Hall 528-1619. Zip Code 01230, Housatonic Zip Code 01236.
Population 7,416. Incorporated 1761.

Its natural beauty and convenient location have made Great Barrington a favorite summer home spot for over 100 years. The community reflects this in its fashionable shopping district, fine restaurants and recreational and cultural amenities. Great Barrington also includes the village of Housatonic, with a beautiful old paper mill, and a group of interesting art galleries and studios.

Berkshire County was first inhabited by the Mahican tribe, a part of the Algonquin nation. Tradition has it that there was a substantial colony on the site of present day Great Barrington, but at the time of the settlement here by the Dutch and English in 1730, the Indians were concentrated in two small villages, one at Stockbridge and one at Sheffield. In 1736, a permanent Indian mission was established in Stockbridge, and all the Indian population moved there.

Great Barrington was known as the Upper or North Parish of Sheffield until 1761, when it was incorporated and named the Shire town of the new county of Berkshire. The towns of Pittsfield and Great Barrington were created by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in 1761, the former named for Britain's great prime minister, William Pitt, and the latter for his war minister, Lord Barrington. Together they had led the country to the peak of success in Europe, America and India, as well as on the seven seas and in the Seven Years War (known in America as the French and Indian War). Although most of the early white settlers in Berkshire County were of English extraction from the middle and eastern parts of Massachusetts and from Connecticut and Rhode Island, there were many Dutch families who came to the southwestern part of the county from adjacent areas of New York.

Twice before 1800 the county court house was the scene of rebellious action. On August 16, 1774, it was the site of the first open resistance to military rule imposed on Massachusetts by Parliament in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, and in September, 1786, an army of Daniel Shays' rebels would not let the Court of Common Pleas sit.

In the eighteenth century, Great Barrington was a farming community with little business enterprise, due in part to the loss of the courts to Lenox in 1787. By 1829, when a history of Berkshire County was compiled, there were 2 taverns, 4 merchant stores, 2 large tanneries, a grist mill, a plaster mill, and various mechanic shops in the village. In Van Deusenville were 2 stores, a woolen factory, and in the northern part of town, a cotton factory. The next decade saw a blast furnace for the manufacturing of pig iron put into operation in Van Deusenville. In Housatonic, Monument Mills was incorporated in 1850, and the Owen-Hurlburt paper mill started in 1856. Cone Centennial, later Rising Paper, was built in 1876, and the Barrington Mills was incorporated in 1893. Of all these industries, only Rising Paper, now owned by Fox River, exists today.

The Berkshire Street Railway extended down from Pittsfield. Today, you must arrive by automobile, plane or bus.

The town changed rapidly from a rural community of 961 people in 1776 to a manufacturing center of 2,264 by 1830, and has been the natural hub of trade and business for the surrounding rural population ever since. After the Civil War the influx of "summer people" into the Berkshires began. Lenox was the social capital and Stockbridge the intellectual center of the area; but, since many New Yorkers preferred this location, Great Barrington became, and has continued to be, a well-known summer resort.

The W.E.B. DuBois Homesite Memorial The boyhood farm home of Great Barrington's illustrious native son, William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963), historian, educator, sociologist, pioneer civil rights leader, and founder of the N.A.A.C.P., was situated on Egremont Plain just a bit over two miles from the center of town. Only the cellar hole remains of the "House of the Black Burghardts" close beside the road that has become Route 23, but it is easy to imagine the old house as DuBois described it lovingly in 1928 when friends presented it to him on his sixtieth birthday. "It was a delectable place - simple, square and low, with the great room of the fireplace, the flagged kitchen, half a step below, and the lower woodshed beyond. Steep, strong stairs led up to sleep, while without was a brook, a well and a mighty elm."

This site is marked by a plaque by the side of the road and is a National Historic Landmark and on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

As an aside, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois began his academic pursuits in another Historic Site, The Pope House or "Brightside". Recognized as a young scholar, DuBois was taken under wing by the family of a prominent local Mill owner, Mr. Parley Russell. As a boy, DuBois spent hours in the library of this hospitable home. Young Louis Russell, the frail son of Parley, was a close friend of the young DuBois and Mrs. Russell bought the books recommended for DuBois' advanced courses while still in Great Barrington. Brightside is the only building with a strong connection to DuBois still standing in his hometown. Today this grand Italianate Victorian, built just at the start of the Civil war (1859-62), is slated to become a National Historic Landmark and to be listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places..