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Where to Stay in Williamstown
Williamstown is a college town built around Williams College. The Clark Art Institute sits on a 140-acre campus at the edge of the village, with paintings by Renoir, Monet, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, trails, and reflecting pools designed by Tadao Ando. The Williams College Museum of Art is free. The Williamstown Theatre Festival runs in summer, and several of its productions have moved to Broadway. The downtown is compact and walkable, with restaurants, bookshops and cafés. The Taconic Range runs along the New York border about 3 miles west, and MASS MoCA in North Adams is about 6 miles east. The Guest House at Field Farm, a 1948 modernist house on 316 acres of conservation land, has 6 rooms with views of Mount Greylock.
Guest House at Field Farm
Williamstown · Inn
A 6-room guest house on Field Farm, a 316-acre property of The Trustees in Williamstown, with views of Mount Greylock. Lawrence and Eleanor Bloedel, collectors of modern art, built the house in 1948, and 13 sculptures stand on the grounds. More than 4 miles of footpaths cross the property, and The Folly, a 1965 cottage designed by Ulrich Franzen, is also on the land. Downtown Williamstown is a few minutes' drive.
The Williams Inn
Williamstown · Inn
A 64-room inn on Spring Street in Williamstown, opened in 2019 in a stone-and-wood building modeled on New England farm architecture. The restaurant and bar, The Barn, is in a barn-style building on site. The Williams College Museum of Art is close by, and the Clark Art Institute is about a 10-minute walk.
Why Stay in Williamstown
- •The Clark Art Institute has an Impressionist collection and 140 acres of trails and meadows around its galleries.
- •The Guest House at Field Farm is a 1948 modernist house on 316 acres, with 13 sculptures on the grounds and views of Mount Greylock.
- •The Williamstown Theatre Festival runs each summer, and several of its productions have moved to Broadway.
What Makes This Area Interesting
- •Clark Art Institute: 1 mile west of the village; Impressionist paintings, reflecting pools designed by Tadao Ando, and 140 acres of trails; open year-round.
- •Williams College Museum of Art: free admission; strong contemporary program; on the main campus.
- •Williamstown Theatre Festival: summer programming at the Adams Memorial Theatre on the Williams campus; runs June through August.
- •MASS MoCA: North Adams; about 6 miles east on Route 2; contemporary art in a former factory complex.
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