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View from the Municipal Groups esplanade across Court Street to the First Church and the 31 Elm Street office buildings beyond. The tower of the Registry of Deeds building visible on the right hidden behind a building overgrown with ivy.

View of the front and left side of the church and the parsonage beside it.

View of the First Congregational Church from across Main Street.

View of the church from across Main Street looking west. The yard is landscaped with trees and shrubs.

View of the church from across the street and west on Main Street.

View of the right side of the church and the old fence.

View of the right side of the church and new fence.

Exterior view of the First Congregational Church of Amherst from across Main Street.

Exterior view of the First Congregational Church of Amherst from across Main Street.

Exterior view of the First Congregational Church of Amherst from across Main Street.

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…

A white boy stands in a field holding a plow hitched to a horse while a man stands nearby holding a hand of a second boy and pointing at the plow. The farm building is visible on top of the hill behind.

A girl and a boy, identified as Margaret and Oscar Johnson, sit on the steps of a wooden house. She is looking on as he is whittling a piece of wood.

A girl and a boy, identified as Margaret and Oscar Johnson, at the back door of a wooden house. She is sitting on the steps whittling, while he is kneeling in front of her looking on.

View of the old First National Bank building which was designed by William Fenno Pratt and built in 1864. The building was home to S. K. Orr Apothecary as well as the bank. In 1891, the Bank moved to the center of town and located in Merchants' Row.…