First fraternity house established in Amherst

First fraternity house established in Amherst

Amherst (Mass.)

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."

Lovell, John L., 1825-1903

Jones Library Special Collections

Circa 1874

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Is part of the John Lovell Photograph Collection. Jones Library Special Collections

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5.3 x 8 in.

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