Year-Round or Vacation Home in Berkshire Hills, near Lake

RICHMOND, MASSACHUSETTS: Charming, three-bedroom ranch at Richmond Shores, in the beautiful Berkshire hills, minutes from Lenox, Stockbridge and Pittsfield. Swimming, boating, skiing, mountain trails, Tanglewood Music Festival, Kripalu Yoga Center, Williamstown Summer Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Norman Rockwell Museum. Idyllic summer retreat or year-round residence, with lakeview, on private, wooded, quarter-acre lot. Short walk to beach, minutes from Bousquet ski and water resort, twenty minutes from Jiminy Peak Ski area. Built in the 60's, renovated in the 80's, with new plumbing, electric heat, deck and sewer connection.  Knotty pine interior, exterior spruce siding, full, dry, walk-out basement and new roof.  Enjoy the charming, New England countryside, museums, summer art events, storied villages and quiet solitude of this idyllic, woodland,  lake-community cottage.  (NOTE:  House is not lakefront but is one block from the lake, on a private, dead-end street with a view of the lake.)  Price,  $159,000.  Phone 518-265-1382; 518-438-3084. Be sure to view all four photos.