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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. It was given to the Amherst Historical Society in 1916. [2] It currently houses the Amherst History Museum. [3]
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Amherst Historical Society [7] Historic Northampton [8] Middlesex County. Acton Historical Society; ... Laconia Historical & Museum Society, New Hampshire ...
Amherst History Museum, which opened in 1916 and is governed by the Amherst Historical Society [45] Beneski Museum of Natural History , including the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet Emily Dickinson Museum , birthplace and lifelong residence of poet Emily Dickinson , now a museum.
The Museum's mission is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit the agricultural history and rural heritage of the Buffalo Niagara region. A 35-acre (140,000 m 2) site, the Museum includes 10 historic buildings moved from their original sites, a main exhibit building, a collections storage facility, the Niederlander Research Library, and a Museum ...
Canaan Historical Society Museum: Canaan: Grafton: Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee: Local history [8] Campton Historical Society Museum: Campton: Grafton: White Mountains Region: Local history [9] Canterbury Shaker Village: Canterbury: Merrimack: Merrimack Valley: Open-air: Includes 25 original and four reconstructed Shaker buildings on 694 acres (2.81 ...
The Dickinson Historic District is a historic district in Amherst, Massachusetts.Its centerpiece is the Emily Dickinson Home, a National Historic Landmark.The district boundaries encompass Main and Lessey Streets, east of Amherst center, from their junction eastward to Gray Street and the Amherst railroad station, which marks the eastern end of the district.
The Historic Preservation Commission was established in 1994 under the auspices of Amherst's Historic Preservation Law, in accordance with Section 96-a of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York concerning protection of historic places, buildings and works of art. This provision of law gives the town government the authority to ...