{"id":3211,"date":"2011-08-19T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2011-08-19T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T15:20:14","slug":"amherst-depot-1853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3211","title":{"rendered":"Amherst Depot (1853)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P7210594.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Amherst MA railroad station\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P7210594.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P7210594-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Although today hidden down a side street, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amherstarea.com\/amherst\/index.cfm\/fa\/tour\/stop\/26.cfm\">Amherst&#8217;s small brick train station<\/a> was once surrounded by a hub of activity, including factories, a hotel and a bank.  Built in 1853 by Robert Cutler, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanstations.com\/Stations\/AMM\">Amherst Depot<\/a> originally served the Amherst &#038; Belchertown Railroad and later the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_London_Northern_Railroad\">New London Northern Railroad<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvrhs.com\/\">Central Vermont Railroad<\/a>.  Restored in 1976, it continues as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amherst_%28Amtrak_station%29\">a passenger station<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although today hidden down a side street, Amherst&#8217;s small brick train station was once surrounded by a hub of activity, including factories, a hotel and a bank. Built in 1853 by Robert Cutler, the Amherst Depot originally served the Amherst &#038; Belchertown Railroad and later the New London Northern Railroad and the Central Vermont Railroad. Restored in 1976, it continues as a passenger station today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,58,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amherst","category-italianate","category-stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}