The early 1900s photograph shown above depicts the late Fred and Sarah Shepard standing in front of their farmhouse on Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington. In earlier years, this property and the surrounding acreage were owned by the Pixley family, early settlers of Great Barrington. Stockbridge Road was then called Pixley Street. A portion of the house was framed with chestnut beams likely logged from the nearby forests of Mount Washington. According to the late Locke Larkin, who was former owner of the building, the house was converted into a three-story structure in the late 19th century when it was lifted up and a new first floor added.
In recent decades, the building was home to Locke Stock & Barrel Gourmet Grocer. It recently reopened as The Marketplace Specialty Foods.
