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This three-bedroom cape in Adams still has much of its original features like fireplace and hardwood floors, but also has a renovated bathroom, kitchen and boiler.

Friday Front Porch Feature: A Cozy Home in Adams

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
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ADAMS, Mass. — Are you looking for a cozy single-family home? Then this is the home for you.

Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 84 North Summer St.

This 1950, two-story, three-bedroom cape is 1,260 square feet on less than an acre. It has a primary bedroom and renovated bathroom with shower on the first floor and two bedrooms upstairs. It also features a fireplace in the living room and wood floors throughout the rooms.

There's a detached one-car garage and a patio to enjoy mountain views.

The home is on the market for $349,900.

We spoke to Pauline Green with Steepleview Realty, which has the listing.

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

Outstanding views of Mount Greylock. The charm of a mid-century cape, many updates. 

What kind of buyer do you see this home being perfect for?

Perfect for someone who wants to live on the first floor (bedroom and bath) and a family home with additional bedrooms upstairs. 

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

The coziness. 

Are there any standout design features and/or recent renovations?

Kitchen and bath updates, new windows on the first floor, Buderus boiler, rebuilt side porch and patio. 

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

Convenient to everything, including the Ashuwillticook bike trail. Easy maintenance. 

You can find out more about this home 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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Williamstown Studying Major Overhaul for Main Street

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town is working with a Worcester civil engineering firm to redesign Main Street with an eye toward a major project sometime in the next decade.
 
Community Development Director Andrew Groff was before the Select Board on Monday night to talk about Town Hall's use of a $500,000 state grant to do preliminary design on major improvements to that portion of Route 2 that runs from Water Street west to the Field Park rotary, through the middle of Williams College's campus.
 
Groff introduced the elected officials to Amanda Bazinet of Worcester's Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, who is helping the town to develop a plan for Main Street that would align with the commonwealth's Complete Streets Program.
 
"Our project goals, in addition to the increased pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, is just, in general, improving the sightlines and improving the intersection geometry," Bazinet said.
 
"Complete Streets … has a lot of different facets to it. As Andrew had mentioned, the goal is to improve the safety for all of the roadway users — not just the motorists. We're looking at improving it for pedestrians, bicyclists, anyone using a mobility device. We want to create streets that are safe for all ages and abilities to use. So, while bicyclists will still be allowed, legally, to use the roadway, we want to look at providing a separate bicycle accommodation along the corridor, whether it's a shared use path along both sides of the streets that is a little more accessible to young children or older people with disabilities to look at all transportation options."
 
One goal is to encourage "active transportation." The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, who the town hopes one day might fund the construction, has a "healthy transportation policy," Bazinet said.
 
That MassDOT funding would come through the Transportation Improvement Program, which is managed locally by the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. The design work underway now is being done with an eye toward going after TIP funding years down the road.
 
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