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- The Guthrie Center at the old Trinity Church
- The Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, who in 1964 used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
- Not sure what this is but it's a nearby alice's restaurant: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27977746
- In 1974 Alice operated Alice's Restaurant on Route 183 in Housatonic, about mid-way between Great Barrington and Stockbridge. By 1976, Alice opened a much larger operation, Alice's at Avaloch, on a 22-acre (89,000 m2) estate in nearby Lenox. The restaurant seated more than 100 guests and boasted an active bar scene and hotel. Musicians performing at Tanglewood and at Music Inn stopped at Alice's for food & drink including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison and others. The property proved unmanageable for such a large restaurant, however, requiring thrice-daily septic clean outs and other permitting problems with the town of Lenox. Alice's at Avaloch closed in 1979.
- Alice's restaurant (formally known as the Back Room Rest, named for its location down an alley behind a grocery store at 40 Main Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts) was roughly six miles from the church—though true to the song, it was "just a half-a-mile from the railroad track". Formerly Maluphy's Restaurant, it ran the length of the building from front to back along the side alley. Owned by Alice for only a year before she and Ray divorced, it was, as of 2009, Theresa's Stockbridge Cafe, where a hand-painted sign indicates its former identity. The building's front as of 2009 is The Main Street Cafe
- In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice and Ray Brock's former home, at 4 Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and converted it to the Guthrie Center, a nondenominational, interfaith meeting place.
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