Parking outside the townhouses.

ID: 1444 ~ Source: Courtesy of MCLA Freel Library.
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North Adams State College built the townhouses to account for a rising number of students applying from outside of Berkshire County. This led to more students requiring housing than the college had the capacity to house. Both the construction of the Flagg Townhouses and the many parking lots surrounding it allowed for students to call NASC home.

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By Benjamin Macfadzen
In the early 1970s, as North Adams State College looked toward the future, its ambitions began to outgrow its campus. What had once been a small, regionally rooted institution was now attracting…