Captain Lombard House (1767)

Enfield was one of the Massachusetts towns that was flooded in the 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Many people and about a dozen houses and reused parts of houses were relocated to Amherst by the Gass family of builders. One of these was the c. 1767 Cape Cod-style Captain Lombard House. In 1817, it was the home of Captain Lombard, who shipped cargo out of Boston. The house was moved by builder Robert Gass to its current address at 152 Triangle Street in Amherst, where he he presented it to his new wife as a wedding gift in 1939. They resided there until 1993, when they settled in Florida.