Description
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 here. It was purchased by the Alpa Delta Phi fraternity in 1874. (See Walker scrapbook 5, page 733, for story of Sellon and the house.)
View of a beautiful, large house with Alpha Delta Phi fraternity members standing in front. Written on the back of photograph, "George Cook's girls school, Madam Barron music teacher; bought for fraternity in 1874 from T. Hersey; new fraternity building dedicated in 1890; this house gutted by fire November 28, 1924; site of the famous water cure."