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Conkey-Stevens House

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providing a full third story in the attic level. It has a three-bay front facade, with a single-story porch wrapping across the front and around the right side. The main roof cornice has modillion blocks, with paired brackets set between the window bays. The steep slope of the mansard roof is
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pierced by three dormers, the outer ones with triangular pediments and the middle one with a segmented-arch pediment. The ground-floor front windows are full length in the Greek Revival style, with the main entrance in the right bay.
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The Conkey-Stevens House is located on the west side of Amherst's East Village, on the north side of Main Street opposite its junction with Shumway Street. It is a
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in 1979, and was included as a contributing property to the
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is a historic brick house located at 664 Main Street in
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This distinctive brick house was built in 1840 with
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Conkey-Stevens House is located in Massachusetts
Conkey-Stevens House is located in the United States
Amherst, Massachusetts
42°22′33″N 72°30′20″W / 42.37583°N 72.50556°W / 42.37583; -72.50556
East Village Historic District
ID86001408
79000352
Amherst, Massachusetts
Greek Revival
Second Empire
National Register of Historic Places
East Village Historic District
mansard roof
Greek Revival
Second Empire
mansard roof
Sidney Dillon
Union Pacific Railroad
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"MACRIS inventory record for Conkey-Stevens House"

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