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View east on College Street in Amherst
View east on College Street showing some of the houses along the street, and a man standing on the sidewalk by a picket fence.
House on Lincoln Avenue in Amherst
Close-up of a house on Lincoln Avenue with a man and child in the yard, and a man and woman on the porch. Written on back of photograph: "House where Winifred was born. Built by Mr. & Mrs. McCloud. Later owned by Mrs. Charles D. Adams." The…
House of Henry M. McCloud on Lincoln Avenue in Amherst
View of an Italianate-style house with seven people sitting on the porch. Written on back of photograph: "E. W. Carpenter, Sarah McCloud, Grandpa McCloud, Grandma McCloud, H. M. McCloud, Al." The house number is currently 171.
Sidewalk and Dickinson houses in Amherst
View of Main Street looking east, showing the William Austin Dickinson house and the Emily Dickinson house. People are standing on the sidewalk. This image shows the area near the current Sweetser Park.
Area view of Mill Lane in Amherst
Aerial view of the Mill Lane looking north toward Amherst College and showing fields, livestock, gardens, houses, barns, etc. The Gaylord/Simeon Clark house (later the Lyman Thompson house) is in the foreground; and the Grist Mill is on the left.…
House on Montague Road in Amherst
View of a house with people, horses, and oxen in the yard. According to a copy of a hand-written note accompanying this photograph, this house was owned by Charles R. Dickinson who later sold it to Enoch Clark. The Ferry family acquired it in 1929.…
Area view of Montague Road in Amherst
Area view of Montague Road in North Amherst. The building on the right is a sawmill once located on Eastman pond. It was first owned by Ansel Marshall, and later by Levi Dickinson. The first house on the left was the property of the Eastman family;…
View north on North Pleasant Street in Amherst
Stately elms without foliage line the dirt street. There are houses on the left and a horse and wagon parked in front of the shop of Lee and Phillips. Frederick H. Hitchcock writes, in The Handbook of Amherst, "That portion of Pleasant Street which…
Residences and elms on North Pleasant Street in Amherst
This is an area view looking north up North Pleasant Street with an emphasis on the left, residential, side of the street. There is a sign for a stove and tin shop visible on the right and a wagon parked in the road.
Residences and elms on North Pleasant Street in Amherst
This is an area view looking north up North Pleasant Street showing the houses on the left side of the street. The Whipple house is the first on the left. There is a nice view of the lovely elms lining the street.
View north from the center of North Pleasant Street in Amherst
View showing businesses and houses on both sides of the street. a horse-drawn wagon is parked on the street and the business of Lee and Phillips is visible on the right. Written on the bottom of the photograph, "view of residence of Lewis J. Spear…
Amity Street after the Blizzard of 1888
View west down Amity Street from the corner after the Blizzard of 1888 showing Frank P. Wood's Hotel and the houses on the right side where the Jones Library now sits. Large drifts of snow line the street.
Delano House in Amherst
View of a large Victorian house with a well-shaded yard. The house was situated across from College Hall on Northampton Road. It was owned by Miss Lucia Delano when it burned December 3, 1876 and was used as a boarding house. Previous to this it was…
First fraternity house established in Amherst
This is the Dr. William F. Sellon house, rumoured to have had a subcellar connected to a tunnel which ran under Sellon Street to the house across. Dr. Sellon was an Amherst physician who built the house around 1824 and later ran a water cure facility…
Nathan Dickinson house in Amherst
View of an old and dilipidated house on South East Street, along with its even more dilipidated attached shed. Notation on verso, "one of the earliest in Amherst, situated on South East Street between the New London Northern Railroad tracks and the…