Pratt Field, Amherst

Name: Pratt Field
Address: Amherst, United States

#63 among attractions in Amherst

Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums

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Pratt Field is the football field of Amherst College, constructed in 1891. Considered the third-oldest college NCAA football site in the nation, the field was renovated in 2015 to include a new field house, track, and a shifted playing field. ()

Coordinates: 42°22'8"N, 72°31'28"W

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Pratt Field – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hampshire Mall, Emily Dickinson Museum, Mead Art Museum, Beneski Museum of Natural History.

1.5 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Hampshire Mall, Hadley
38 min walk • Hampshire Mall is a primarily one-story shopping mall with a small second floor in Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, with approximately 55 stores owned by The Pyramid Companies.
0.7 miNE
Emily Dickinson, Museum, Historical place
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst
19 min walk • The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, whose poems were discovered in her bedroom there after her death.
0.5 miE
Museum, Art museum, Gothic Revival architecture
Mead Art Museum, Amherst
13 min walk • Mead Art Museum houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead, of the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. His wife, Olga Kilyeni Mead, left her entire estate to Amherst College.
0.6 miNE
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst
15 min walk • The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors.
~910 ftNE
Church
Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Amherst
5 min walk • The Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church on Woodside Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1.2 miN
Music and shows, Nightlife, Music venue
Fine Arts Center, Amherst
31 min walk • The Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is an arts center located just north of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts and contains a concert hall and a contemporary art gallery.
0.8 miNE
Emily Dickinson, Cemetery
Amherst West Cemetery, Amherst
20 min walk • Amherst West Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Triangle Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 4 acres cemetery was first laid out in 1730, when the voters of Hadley elected to establish a new burying ground in its eastern precinct. When the area was separated as Amherst in 1786, the property was taken over by the newly established town.
0.4 miE
Emily Dickinson, Universities and schools
Amherst College, Amherst
11 min walk • Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.
0.5 miN
Museum, History museum, Georgian architecture
Strong House, Amherst
13 min walk • The Strong House is a historic house at 67 Amity Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. Built about 1744, it is one of Amherst's oldest surviving houses, and a fine example of mid-18th century Connecticut River Valley architecture.
0.5 miN
Library
Jones Library, Amherst
14 min walk • The Jones Library of Amherst, Massachusetts is a public library with three locations, the main building and two branches. The library was established in 1919 by a fund set up in the will of lumberman Samuel Minot Jones.
~1200 ftS
Observatories and planetariums
Wilder Observatory, Amherst
6 min walk • Wilder Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned by Amherst College. It is located on Snell Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and was designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.

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Nearby attractions include Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Amherst (5 min walk), Wilder Observatory, Amherst (6 min walk), Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst (10 min walk), Amherst College, Amherst (11 min walk).

Pratt Field, Amherst

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Pratt Field – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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