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Frank P. Wood's Hotel in Amherst
This building was located on the corner of Amity and North Pleasant Streets. It was previously owned by William F. Gunn and named Gunn's Hotel. There are two women standing, and several men seated, on the veranda. Wood's livery stable is shown to the…
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.
Field Building in Amherst
This building stood at the corner of Amity and North Pleasant Street. Samuel K. Orr remodeled it as a modern drug store and opened his shop there in 1859. According to the Springfield Republican (October 22, 1864 edition, page 8) William F. Gunn…
W. D. Cowls team after the Blizzard of 1888
The horse team of W. D. Cowls rests in front of Frank P. Wood's Hotel and Livery (corner of Amity and North Pleasant Streets) after the Blizzard of 1888, accompanied by a large group of men and boys. A number of such teams were formed to clear the…
North Prospect Street in Amherst
View on North Prospect Street with a portion of the Prospect House visible on the left and the Strong House just visible through the trees on the right.
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…
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…
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 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 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 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 and a portion of the first Amherst House 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.