Prospect-Gaylord Historic District, Amherst

Name: Prospect-Gaylord Historic District
Address: Amherst, United States

#59 among attractions in Amherst

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The Prospect—Gaylord Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential area built up mostly in the late 19th century just outside the central business district of Amherst, Massachusetts. 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 African American church built in 1912 for a congregation whose history dates to 1869. Funds for its construction were raised in part through the efforts of W.E.B. Du Bois. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. ()

Coordinates: 42°22'33"N, 72°31'22"W

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Prospect-Gaylord Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mullins Center, Emily Dickinson Museum, Mead Art Museum, University Museum of Contemporary Art.

1.1 miNW
Convention center, Basketball, Hockey
Mullins Center, Amherst
28 min walk • The William D. Mullins Memorial Center, also known as the Mullins Center, is a 9,493-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
0.4 miE
Emily Dickinson, Museum, Historical place
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst
11 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 miSE
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.
0.9 miN
Museum, Art museum, Modern art museum
University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst
23 min walk • The University Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The UMCA has been housed in the university's Fine Arts Center since 1975, after the university began collecting works in 1962.
0.5 miSE
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst
13 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.
~1800 ftS
Church
Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Amherst
9 min walk • The Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic church on Woodside Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts.
0.7 miN
Music and shows, Nightlife, Music venue
Fine Arts Center, Amherst
19 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.
~1760 ftNE
Emily Dickinson, Cemetery
Amherst West Cemetery, Amherst
9 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.
0.5 miSE
Emily Dickinson, Universities and schools
Amherst College, Amherst
13 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.
~240 ftE
Museum, History museum, Georgian architecture
Strong House, Amherst
2 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 miN
Art gallery, Museum, Universities and schools
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
25 min walk • The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Which popular attractions are close to Prospect-Gaylord Historic District?

Nearby attractions include Strong House, Amherst (2 min walk), Amity Street, Amherst (3 min walk), Jones Library, Amherst (3 min walk), Lincoln–Sunset Historic District, Amherst (4 min walk).