Case: GG-2026-082
Status: Active
Documentation rating: C
Location: North Adams, Massachusetts
Located on Church Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Houghton Mansion stands as a prominent late 19th-century Neo-Classical residence bound to one of New England's most heartbreaking early 20th-century tragedies. Constructed in the 1890s by Albert Charles Houghton—a wealthy industrialist, president of Arnold Print Works, and the first mayor of North Adams—the mansion was home to the influential Houghton family. On August 1, 1914, a devastating automobile accident in Bennington, Vermont, fatally injured Albert’s daughter Mary Houghton, family friend Sybil Hutton, and trusted chauffeur Jo…
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