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Prospect-Gaylord Historic District

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79: 62: 912: 104: 924: 456: 233:. Contributing properties include most of the houses on Prospect Street, which parallels Pleasant Street, as well as properties on Gaylord and Amity Streets running west from Prospect. These houses are generally in late Victorian styles such as Queen Anne, although some, for example a workman's house at 24 Gaylord Street, are in a more vernacular style. A central element of the district is the Hope Community Church, a historically 901: 111: 86: 257:. This area was built up with modest Greek Revival houses set on small lots, while North Prospect Street, north of Amity Street, was developed later, with larger lots and more typical Victorian styling. Gaylord Street was laid out as a private lane in the early 1880s, and was subsequently lined with Queen Anne and later styles of housing. 248:
Amherst, settled in the 17th century, remained a scattered agricultural community until the early 19th century. At that time, the town center began to take on a more pronounced commercial character, and its importance in the town was cemented by the establishment of
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church built in 1912 for a congregation whose history dates to 1869. Funds for its construction were raised in part through the efforts of
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in 1825. Prospect Street was laid out in 1824 between Amity Street (1703) and Northampton Street, the original main road to the
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encompassing a residential area built up mostly in the late 19th century just outside the central business district of
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Prospect-Gaylord Historic District is located in Massachusetts
Prospect-Gaylord Historic District is located in the United States
Amherst, Massachusetts
42°22′33″N 72°31′22″W / 42.37583°N 72.52278°W / 42.37583; -72.52278
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historic district
Amherst, Massachusetts
African American
W.E.B. Du Bois
National Register of Historic Places
Amherst College
Connecticut River
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 24 Gaylord Street"
"MACRIS inventory record for Hope Community Church"
"NRHP nomination for Prospect-Gaylord Historic District"
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Contributing property
Keeper of the Register

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