East Village Historic District, Amherst

Name: East Village Historic District
Address: Amherst, United States

#57 among attractions in Amherst

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The East Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of the East Village of Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It includes properties on Main Street, North East Street, and South East Street. The village was one of Amherst's principal civic and commercial centers until the arrival of the railroad in Amherst Center in 1853, and remained a primarily residential area thereafter. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. ()

Coordinates: 42°22'36"N, 72°30'4"W

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East Village Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Emily Dickinson Museum, Mead Art Museum, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

0.7 miW
Emily Dickinson, Museum, Historical place
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst
18 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.
0.8 miSW
Museum, Art museum, Gothic Revival architecture
Mead Art Museum, Amherst
22 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.
0.7 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst
19 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.
1.2 miW
Church
Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Amherst
30 min walk • The Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church on Woodside Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1.4 miNW
Music and shows, Nightlife, Music venue
Fine Arts Center, Amherst
36 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.
0.9 miW
Emily Dickinson, Cemetery
Amherst West Cemetery, Amherst
23 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.
0.9 miSW
Emily Dickinson, Universities and schools
Amherst College, Amherst
23 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.
1.1 miW
Museum, History museum, Georgian architecture
Strong House, Amherst
28 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.
1 miW
Library
Jones Library, Amherst
26 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.
1.4 miSW
Observatories and planetariums
Wilder Observatory, Amherst
36 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.
0.9 miW
Museum, Art museum
Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Amherst
24 min walk • The Amherst Center for Russian Culture was created by Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts after the gift of a major collection of Russian books, manuscripts, periodicals and ephemera by Thomas P. Whitney in 1991.

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Which popular attractions are close to East Village Historic District?

Nearby attractions include Conkey-Stevens House, Amherst (7 min walk), Amherst Station, Amherst (14 min walk), Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst (18 min walk), Dickinson Historic District, Amherst (19 min walk).