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Amherst Town Common after the Amherst House fire
View of the crowded Town Common after the fire of July 4, 1879. The Fire Department is in the lower right corner. The Amherst Record of July 9, 1879 stated, "The scene on the common about daylight was a novel one. Everything from the stores had been…
Merchants' Row and Amherst House after 1880
View on South Pleasant Street showing business blocks of Merchants' Row with the newly constructed Amherst House on the right.
Merchants' Row and Amherst House after 1880
View on South Pleasant Street showing business blocks of Merchants' Row with the newly constructed Amherst House on the right. Some of the businesses have awnings.
Cutler's Block on South Pleasant Street
This building was designed by William Fenno Pratt to replace the one which was destroyed in the fire of July 4, 1879, which also destroyed the Amherst House. Visible business signs include Edwards & Bigelow, C. S. Gates, Dentist, and Jackson &…
North end of Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View south on South Pleasant Street with a prominent view of Kellogg's Block showing the driveway to Stebbins' Livery Stable. Men are leaning out third-story windows, a clock is visible outside J. A. Rawson, and a sign for Amherst Dental Rooms hangs…
South Pleasant Street and Merchants' Row
View looking south down South Pleasant Street showing the business blocks of Merchants' Row and horses hitched to wagons parked on the street.
Merchants' Row and Baptist Church in Amherst
View of Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street with the First Baptist Church in the background. Horses, carriages and wagons line the street and there is a covering of snow on the ground.
Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View from the south end of Merchants' Row showing Kendrick Market on the left and a portion of the first Amherst House on the right.
Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View from the south end of Merchants' Row showing Kendrick Market on the left and a portion of the first Amherst House on the right. Horses hitched to wagons line the street.
Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View from the south end of Merchants' Row showing Kendrick Market on the left. Horses hitched to wagons line the street.
Merchants' Row as seen from the Town Common
View of Merchants' Row from the Town Common across South Pleasant Street. Good view of Stebbins' Livery Stable in the back of the business blocks on the right.
Merchants' Row and Baptist Church in Amherst
View of Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street with the First Baptist Church in the background. Horses, carriages and wagons line the street and there is a covering of snow on the ground.
Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street
View from the north end of Merchant's Row. The house-like building on the right was the old post office building owned by Dwight Kellogg. In June of 1865 Kellogg tried to remodel and raise the building but it collapsed. He then built the brick…
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…
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…