![]() ![]() The additional space has allowed Hanford and Thompson to expand their offerings. ![]() Township Four’s Stockbridge store will still carry many of the items that Hanford and Thompson offered in Pittsfield, although floral production will now occur at the farm in Lee. ![]() They had started Country Curtains in 1956 before moving to the Berkshires. The Fitzpatricks revived and restored the Red Lion Inn after they purchased the historic lodging establishment in 1968. ![]() The space was originally part of the Red Lion Inn’s dining room before the late Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick moved Country Curtains into it. The new space in Stockbridge, located behind the dining room on the inn’s east side, contains 2,400-square feet, almost double the 1,500-square feet that Township Four Floristry & Home occupies in Pittsfield. “This is why this opened prior to Lee,” he said, “it’s so much more accessible and easy to open a space like this than to renovate an historic home especially during the pandemic and recently when all the materials are inflated and unavailable.” It’s a farm but it will be a working florist store and similar to this, gift and art, but inside a historic home. “It’s a completely different business model. “It’s going to take me a long time to fix it up,” Hanford said. The two men are also planning to open another store in Lee, but Hanford said that project is on hold until their new residence, a historic home built in the late 18th century, can be renovated. photos by Stephanie Zollshan - berkshire business journal Township Four co-owner Nathan Hanford in the store’s new retail location inside The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge on Thursday. ![]()
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