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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…

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.

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

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

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

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

View of the First Congregational Church from across Main Street.

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

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.

Church seen across a road with a statue on the lawn and pathway cutting across. People walk along the sidewalk and pathway, and sit on the benches by the church.

Articles of faith and government of the First Church in Amherst, Mass. Adopted February 13, 1834. Printed by J. S. and C. Adams, 1850.

St. Bridget's Church was the first Catholic church building in Amherst. It was home to the Catholic community in Amherst from 1871 to 1925. It was then used as a hall for a couple of years before being sold in 1927 and subsequently remodeled and…

This wooden church, initially named St. Bridget's, was constructed on North Pleasant Street in 1871 to accomodate the increasing numbers of Irish Catholics who came and settled in Amherst. The building was purchased by Frank T. Turcotte in 1927 for…