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East Village Historic District (Amherst, Massachusetts)

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The district is a roughly cruciform shape, centered at the junction of Main and East Streets, from which a narrow strip-like green extends southward. It includes 49 buildings, including some of Amherst's oldest surviving structures. Four buildings, three houses and a tavern, date to the 18th
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was built near what is now Amherst Center, but a second parish was established at East Village in 1783. East Village benefited economically from industry on the Fort River, just to the east of the village center, and flourished in the first half of the 19th century, with a number of cottage
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in 1821, and by the arrival of the railroad in 1853, which led to its subsequent economic dominance. Growth slowed significantly, with only a few residential buildings and a new school added in the later decades of the 19th century.
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from the first half of the 19th century. Among the buildings in the district are the Second Congregational Church (a Greek Revival structure built in 1839), the
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industries operating in it or nearby. Amherst Center benefited from the founding of
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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Amherst was settled in the early 18th century and incorporated out of
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

East Village Historic District (Amherst, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
East Village Historic District (Amherst, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Amherst, Massachusetts
42°22′36″N 72°30′4″W / 42.37667°N 72.50111°W / 42.37667; -72.50111
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historic district
Amherst, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Hadley
meeting house
Amherst College
Greek Revival
Federal architecture
Conkey-Stevens House
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"NRHP nomination for East Village Historic District"
"MACRIS inventory record for Second Congregational Church"
"MACRIS inventory record for Conkey-Stevens House"
"MACRIS inventory record for Daniel Kellogg House"
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