{"id":3945,"date":"2011-12-20T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2011-12-20T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:44:39","slug":"amherst-college-presidents-house-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Amherst College President’s House (1834)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The house<\/a> of the President of Amherst College<\/a> was built in 1834-1835. An earlier house<\/a>, built in 1821-1822, had been considered too damp and unhealthy, so the current house<\/a> was then built<\/a> on higher ground, across South Pleasant Street<\/a> from the main campus buildings. The house<\/a>, originally designed in the Greek Revival style<\/a> by Warren Slade Howland, was remodeled in 1891 and again in 1932, with a Georgian Revival style entryway on the north side. The above picture was taken while the most recent renovations on the house<\/a> were underway this past summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The house of the President of Amherst College was built in 1834-1835. An earlier house, built in 1821-1822, had been considered too damp and unhealthy, so the current house was then built on higher ground, across South Pleasant Street from the main campus buildings. The house, originally designed in the Greek Revival style by Warren Slade Howland, was remodeled in 1891 and again in 1932, with a Georgian Revival style entryway on the north side. The above picture was taken while the most recent renovations on the house were underway this past summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,76,38,8],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amherst","category-colonial-revival","category-greek-revival","category-houses","tag-amherst-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}