House at 163 Main St

A contributing property in the Russell Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Set on the floodplain of the Westfield River in the foothills of the Green Mountains, this small western Massachusetts village is significant as a mid-19th-century riverside railroad town whose growth was driven by transportation and sustained by the papermaking industry. The laying out of a toll road in 1800 drew the town's civic and church functions to the riverside village, and the arrival of the railroad in 1838 spurred the industrial development that carried its economy into the 20th century. Its modest, simply detailed buildings, ranging from Greek Revival through the bungalow style, form a coherent community of mill and railroad workers' residences that has changed little over time.

House at 163 Main St is a landmark in Russell, Hampden County. It is one of 3,654 landmarks documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 42.1902, -72.8530 near Russell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Commercial Building at 155 Main St (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include House at 171 Main St, House at 145 Main St, and Parks General Store.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.