This is the old fire station which stood on North Pleasant Street. It was built in 1860 and razed in 1930. The gambrel roof of the Jones Library is visible in the…

Palmer Block with short view down Main Street and house next door visible. Written on verso: C.J.W. from Mother Dec. 25, 1875…

Written on verso: before 1873-no gaslights; shows Charles Deuel store, Deuel's store in Amherst House Block by 1886 according to town directory.…

Written on verso: I work right where I made the two marks; gas lamps put in 1873, out by 1894.. …

Looking west up Main Street to the Amherst House. Livery stable is visible to the left of the Amherst House.…

Shows dental office of B.F. Leach. Note: photograph date between 1856 and 1903.…

Merchants' Row, from south to north, before the fire of July 4, 1879.
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Commercial Row (Merchants' Row) from the Town Common with the first Amherst House on the right.…

Looking west up Main St. toward old Amherst House which burned in 1879. American House Hotel is on right. …

Written on verso: B.H. Williams occupied marked building as tailor's store; I marked just above where our old sign is in picture; the fire started from the store on the left of ours through the whole block including Amherst House.…

Looking east down Main Street, Phoenix Row on left; before 1868 when Palmer Block was built. Note: photograph date between …

Looking at First Baptist Church and houses adjacent from Town Common. …

Slightly elevated view of the Amherst House, possibly taken from a building on the corner of North Pleasant and Main Streets. Note: photograph date between 1880 and…

Amherst House from North Pleasant Street with a long view of Merchants' Row.…

Amherst House and shops in the Amherst House Block as seen from the north end of the Town Common. Businesses visible are O. G. Couch, Deuel, and Blodgett &…