Buildings Index

Amity Street
30 Amherst Cinema Building (1926)
43 Jones Library (1928)
67 Old Strong House (1744)
85 The Perry (1855)
219 Eugene Field House (1839)
243 Solomon Boltwood House (1745)

Barrett Hill Drive
Amherst College: Barrett Hall (1860)

Boltwood Avenue
4 Amherst Town Hall (1889)
14 Mark H. Newman House (1853)
18 Grace Episcopal Church (1865)

Boltwood Walk
30 Enos Cook House (1855)

Hicks Way
144 UMASS: Old Chapel (1855)

Hitchcock Road
14 Scott House (1793)

Lessey Street
81 Luke Sweetser House (1835)
82 Amherst College: Plimpton House (1914)
94 Lessey-Stockbridge House (1870)

Main Street
4-16 Phoenix Row (1838)
165 First Congregational Church of Amherst (1868)
214 The Evergreens (1856)
257 (1878)
280 Emily Dickinson Homestead (1813)
360 Henry F. Hills House (1863)
401 Baxter Marsh House (1896)
592 Wesley Methodist Church (1878)
599 Lysander H. Allen House (1886)

North Pleasant Street
121 Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst (1894)
671 UMASS: East Experiment Station (1890)
683-747 UMASS: West Experiment Station (1887)

Quadrangle Drive
3 Amherst College: Williston Hall (1858)
7 Amherst College: North College (1823)
15 Amherst College: South College (1821)
19 Amherst College: Appleton Hall (1855)
41 Amherst College: Stearns Steeple (1873)

Railroad Street
13 Amherst Depot (1853)

South Pleasant Street
63-71 Merchants’ Row (1880)
79 Old First Baptist Church (1835)
[220] Amherst College: College Hall (1828)
165 Amherst College: Morgan Hall (1853)
175 Amherst College: President’s House (1834)
[220] Amherst College: The Octagon (1847)
[220] Amherst College: Johnson Chapel (1827)
200 Amherst College: Kirby Memorial Theater (1938)
[220] Amherst College: Wilson Admission Center (1810)
227 Fisher House (1830)
249 Helen Hunt Jackson House (1830)
317 Snell House (1820)

Spring Street
90 Todd House (1887)
97 The Dell (1907)

Triangle Street
35 Leonard M. Hills House (1864)
152 Captain Lombard House (1767)

Links

Amherst Historical Society and Museum
http://amhersthistory.org/

Digital Amherst
http://www.digitalamherst.org/

Opening Windows on the Past
http://www.arps.org/amhersthistory/index.html

Emily Dickinson Museum
http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
http://www.carlemuseum.org/

Yiddish Book Center
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

Amherst College
https://www.amherst.edu/

UMASS Amherst
http://www.umass.edu/

Hampshire College
http://www.hampshire.edu/

Books

Some useful information concerning the places of interest in Amherst (1875)

The Handbook of Amherst, Massachusetts (1894), by Frederick H. Hitchcock

The history of the town of Amherst, Massachusetts (1896), compiled by Carpenter and Morehouse

Ye Amherst girl of ye olden tyme (1900), by Alice M. Walker

Through Turkey pass to Amherst and beyond (1903), by Alice M. Walker

Historic Homes of Amherst (1905), by Alice M. Walker

Records of the town of Amherst from 1735 to 1788 (1884)

Historical address delivered at the centennial celebration in Amherst, Mass., July 4, 1876 (1878), by M.F. Dickinson, Jr.

Amherst: the village beautiful, cultured and literary (Amherst House [Hotel]) (188-])

Amherst directory (1890)

Sunlight Pictures; Amherst; Artotypes by E. Bierstadt (1891)

An historical review: One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First church of Christ in Amherst, Massachusetts. November 7, 1889 (1890)

Western New England, Vol. 2, No. 9 (October, 1912): Amherst

Reunion of the Dickinson family, at Amherst, Mass., August 8th and 9th, 1883 (1884)

Amherst College

The Indicator: a literary periodical conducted by students of Amherst College, Volumes 1-3 (1849-1851)

The Visitor’s Guide to the Public Rooms and Cabinets of Amherst College; with a Preliminary Report (1862)

Reminiscences of Amherst College, historical, scientific, biographical and autobiographical; also, of other and wider life experiences (1863), by Edward Hitchcock

Physical culture in Amherst college (1869), by Nathan Allen

Exercises at the semi-centennial of Amherst College (1871)

Opening of Walker Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Oct. 20, 1870 (1871)

History of Amherst College during its first half century, 1821-1871 (1890), by W.S. Tyler

A manual of the gymnastic exercises as practised by the junior class in Amherst college, Amherst, Mass. (1884), prepared under the direction of Dr. Edwin Hitchcock

Amherst Memories: A collection of undergraduate verse of Amherst College (1890), edited by Allan Benjamin MacNeil and John Mantel Clapp

Sabrina: the Class Goddess of Amherst College; a History (1910), compiled by Max Shoop

A history of the endowment of Amherst College (1950), by Stanley King

“The Consecrated Eminence” The Story of the Campus and Buildings of Amherst College (1951), by Stanley King

UMASS

Massachusetts agricultural college, Amherst, Mass. (1897)

The beginnings of college history: an address delivered at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., Oct. 2, 1907 (1908), by Marquis F. Dickinson

Entomology and zoology at the Massachusetts agricultural college, Amherst, Mass. (1911)