Photo of the store on the Martin Block.

ID: 1092 ~ Source: Courtesy of the North Adams Historical Society.
This file appears in: C.H. Cutting and Company
Photo of the store on the Martin Block.
This file appears in: C.H. Cutting and Company

By Roger W. Rivers
Twenty year old Charles H. Cutting formed a partnership with J.W. Silsby resulting in a men’s wholesale-retail clothing store which would last for 89 years. The C.H. Cutting Company opened in a modest building on State Street in 1870. Within a few…