image description — This pretty Cape on Cold Spring Road has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Friday Front Porch Feature: A Cozy Place to Be

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
06:15PM / Friday, December 05, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Are you looking for a move-in ready home close to the downtown area? Then this just might be the house you're looking for.

Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 193 Cold Spring Road.

This 1950 single-family has four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The house is 2,184 square feet on a little less than an acre of land. The price is $469,900.

The house not only comes with a 3.5-car basement garage but also a detached two-car garage with additional storage space above. The house includes the kitchen appliances like the dishwasher, range, and refrigerator, and has a fireplace, screened porch, and back deck. The home is also generator-ready.

We spoke to Suzette Lyons with Burnham and Gold Real Estate, which has the listing.

What do you think makes this property stand out in the current market?

Lyons: Location, location, location!! This property is a short distance from downtown Spring Street. It's nestled conveniently away from the road and provides substantial privacy. Plus, the home has a well-maintained exterior and interior.

What was your first impression when you walked into the home?

What a gem! The workmanship is lovely and shows the home has been loved. There is an abundance of space with four bedrooms for family or work/home office space.

The opportunities are endless.

Do you know any unique stories about the home or its history?

The home was built in the mid-1950s by the owner of Yeadon Farm Dairy on the edge of the farm, now the Thornliebank/Buxton Hill neighborhood, with lumber cut from the property.

Along with thick plaster walls and ceilings on the first floor, quality craftsmanship is abundant throughout.

The house has been owned by the same family who built it and the grandson has made every effort to match the original design and style with all of the renovations, including custom-milled natural woodwork for the private second-floor primary bedroom suite. Family pride in ownership is evident in every space of this well-constructed and maintained house now waiting for a new family to call it "home."

What kind of buyer would this home be ideal for?

This home appeals to many buyers. There are four bedrooms sufficient for a full-time family, singles or second homeowners. Opportunity for in-law suite. Also, ample room for a home/office business. Lots of storage space with 3 1/2 garages and additional storage space above the oversized two-car garage.

Are there any standout design features?

Lots of personal touches with natural woodwork throughout, freshly painted light colors to maximize natural light, new flooring in several rooms. Spacious four-season room for relaxing or home/office use. Also, offers a beautiful primary suite on the second floor.

What would you say to a buyer trying to imagine their life in this space?

A peaceful retreat in the woods. Cozy up to the fireplace on winter nights, enjoy the morning coffee on the back porch or the four-season sunroom. Spend the afternoon gardening in your beautiful yard and connecting with nature. A pet-friendly home offering a fenced yard and durable flooring. A family friendly home directly on the school bus routes.

How would you describe the atmosphere or feel of this home?

The home has a welcoming feel with natural elements offering a place of comfort and belonging.

You can find out more about this house on its listing here.

*Front Porch Feature brings you an exclusive to some of the houses listed on our real estate page every week. Here we take a bit of a deeper dive into a certain house for sale and ask questions so you don't have to.

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New Daycare and Training Zone for Dogs Opens in Williamstown

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
12:35PM / Sunday, October 11, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — You can now bring your dogs to a new daycare and training spot.

Owners and friends Michelle Marrocco and Tiffany Boyden opened Pup Place last month at 895 Simonds Road, the former location of a martial arts studio.

"We do daycare full days and half days, and then we do what we like to call lifestyle training, which is just worked into our models," Marrocco said. "So generally, people don't want their dogs to jump on them, or counter surf, or steal food, and we don't want those things either. So we just reinforce that all day, every day.

"And then we have additional training options like leash training, so your dog will walk politely. We do reactivity training with dogs who are nervous or scared or have issues with other people or other dogs."

This is not their first venture. The two have been walking and training dogs as Berkshire Pup People and it took about five years to find the right space to open a doggy daycare.

"We started with walking, and then added on training and pet sitting and pet sitting. So we have a team of independent contractors," Boyden said.

Marrocco said a brick and mortar building for their business was always the goal while they built up a customer base.

"The idea was that we would do that to build up trust in the community and get to know the market better, with the goal of opening a dog daycare, because there's a huge amount of people with dogs here in the Berkshires in general, and I think we are able to serve maybe 11 percent of the market, which is like families with one or two dogs, and there's three other dog daycares in the region, or dog day trains sort of places, and there's simply not enough for what people need," she said.

Boyden, who is a dog behaviorist, said she fell in love with dog training during the pandemic through helping a neighbor with their dog.

"There was a hole in the market because the dog daycare that I actually brought my own dog to closed, and my neighbor was like, 'I was working remote this whole time, but now I have to go in the office. What do I do with my dog? What do you do with your dog?' And I was like, 'I have a remote job, so he stays home.' And that's kind of where the idea started. We started walking and training him. Then he started coming to my house for care," Boyden said.

After realizing the gap in the market, Boyden reached out to Marrocco, knowing they are both dog lovers, and asked if she wanted to start a business with her.

Boyden learned training from an online course and hands-on experience. Marrocco has a background in teaching and said humane education is similar to how dogs learn. The also completed the E for All Berkshire County business training program.

"What sets me apart a little bit from other trainers in our area is that instead of just basic training, I really enjoy the reactivity training, anything that's behavioral. I love to see a dog struggling and find the root cause of why they're struggling, and then figure out how can we work together to help, rather than just say, 'Hey, this is a behavior. We're going to just train you to stop it,'" she said. "It's why are you having that behavior, and how can we help you through that so you no longer feel like you need to do that behavior? So that's a lot of what we do here in general."

They use positive reinforcement only and avoid aversive methods, which can hide behavior problems. She said all dogs learn a shared set of commands, such as waiting at gates and being comfortable with handling.

At the daycare, dogs rotate between rest, enrichment activities like ripping cardboard, and play so they learn to settle down.

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