Arrowhead is Herman Melville's old farmhouse, set south of Pittsfield with fields, woods, and a view toward Mount Greylock. Melville lived here for twelve years, and it was here that he wrote Moby-Dick, turning a rural Berkshire refuge into one of American literature's great addresses.
The house museum is intimate rather than grand. You come for the rooms, the landscape, and the odd pleasure of standing where a book about oceans was written far from the sea.