{"id":3474,"date":"2011-10-12T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:03:27","slug":"college-hall-amherst-1828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"College Hall, Amherst (1828)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/College-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"College Hall\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/College-Hall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/College-Hall-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amherstiana.org\/campus\/college_hall.html\">College Hall<\/a> in Amherst was built in 1828-1829 as the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=VswTAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA56-IA1#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">third meeting house<\/a> of the First Congregational Church of Amherst.  It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/theconsecratedem00king#page\/66\/mode\/2up\/\">built<\/a> on land donated by Amherst College in return for the right to hold commencement and other ceremonies in the church.  When <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3229\">a new Congregational church<\/a> was built on Main Street in 1867-1868, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZIoUAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA113#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">the College<\/a> purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/003.png\">the old church building<\/a>, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/theconsecratedem00king#page\/118\/mode\/2up\">expanded and remodeled<\/a> (with the addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/139702\/college-hall-amherst-massachusetts\/\">new columns<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/140702\/college-hall-amherst-massachusetts\/\">the front<\/a>) and rededicated in 1905.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/001.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"College Hall\" width=\"683\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/001.png 683w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/001-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/002.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"College Hall\" width=\"648\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/002.png 648w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/002-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Hall in Amherst was built in 1828-1829 as the third meeting house of the First Congregational Church of Amherst. It was built on land donated by Amherst College in return for the right to hold commencement and other ceremonies in the church. When a new Congregational church was built on Main Street in 1867-1868, the College purchased the old church building, which was expanded and remodeled (with the addition of new columns to the front) and rededicated in 1905.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,64,44,38],"tags":[160,81],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amherst","category-churches","category-collegiate","category-greek-revival","tag-amherst-college","tag-congregational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}