 The central portion of Main Street is a broad street with wide green lawns, anchored by a traditional New England town center containing a church and municipal buildings.Along this part of Main Street is the Mission House, a National Historic Landmark that is one of oldest buildings in Stockbridge, dating to the early 1740s.Further to the west the road is more rural, and the district's western boundary is at the crossing of Main Street over the Housatonic River.