Upper North Street Commercial District is a historic district at 220-555 North Street and 33 Eagle Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The district features Colonial Revival and Renaissance style architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Famous quotes containing the words upper, north, street, commercial and/or district:
“The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“The street is full of humiliations to the proud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)