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North Prospect-Lincoln Sunset LHD Study Committee
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North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset
Local Historic District Study Committee
Massachusetts Historic Preservation Commission Letter
Local Historic District Study Report
Summary Report
Frequently asked questions about local historic districts
Letter of Support, Amherst Historical Commission
Majority Report, Planning Board
Minority Report
Response Letter, Steve Bloom - Chair
The district is one of the oldest and most distinguished areas in the Town of Amherst and celebrates the time period from approximately 1865-1950. Much of the neighborhood compromises major portions of the existing Lincoln-Sunset and Prospect-Gaylord National Historic Districts.
DISCOVER HISTORY
Research each home within the neighborhood
Allen Street North Prospect Street
10 Allen Street 18 North Prospect Street
24 North Prospect Street
Amity Street 32 North Prospect Street
85 Amity Street 38 North Prospect Street
111 Amity Street 44 North Prospect Street
117 Amity Street 52 North Prospect Street
125 Amity Street 57 North Prospect Street
151 Amity Street 58 North Prospect Street
155 Amity Street 62 North Prospect Street
175-177 Amity Street 63 North Prospect Street
197 Amity Street 65 North Prospect Street
219 Amity Street 71 North Prospect Street
229 Amity Street 74 North Prospect Street
243 Amity Street 77 North Prospect Street
245 Amity Street 82 North Prospect Street
83 North Prospect Street
Beston Street 89 North Prospect Street
14 Beston Street 90 North Prospect Street
15 Beston Street 94 North Prospect Street
17 Beston Street 96 North Prospect Street
20 Beston Street 100 North Prospect Street
25 Beston Street
26 Beston Street Paige Street
31 Beston Street 10 Paige Street
44 Beston Street 11 Paige Street
19 Paige Street
Cosby Street 25 Paige Street
14 Cosby Street 31 Paige Street
15-17 Cosby Street 39 Paige Street
19 Cosby Street
20 Cosby Street Pease Place
26 Cosby Street 7 Pease Place
27 Cosby Street 27 Pease Place
32 Cosby Street
33 Cosby Street Sunset Avenue
37 Cosby Street 8 Sunset Avenue
38 Cosby Street 15 Sunset Avenue
21 Sunset Avenue
Elm Street 26 Sunset Avenue
14 Elm Street 33 Sunset Avenue
17 Elm Street 43 Sunset Avenue
53 Sunset Avenue
Fearing Street 58 Sunset Avenue
15 Fearing Street 59 Sunset Avenue
27 Fearing Street 65 Sunset Avenue
30 Fearing Street 70 Sunset Avenue
38 Fearing Street 75 Sunset Avenue
41-43 Fearing Street 76 Sunset Avenue
47-49 Fearing Street 84 Sunset Avenue
52 Fearing street 91 Sunset Avenue
60 Fearing Street 92 Sunset Avenue
61 Fearing Street 103 Sunset Avenue
73 Fearing Street 107 Sunset Avenue
76 Fearing Street 111 Sunset Avenue
80 Fearing Street 118 Sunset Avenue
85 Fearing Street 127 Sunset Avenue
90 Fearing Street 136 Sunset Avenue
93 Fearing Street 138 Sunset Avenue
98 Fearing Street 139 Sunset Avenue
100 Fearing Street 140 Sunset Avenue
101 Fearing Street 146 Sunset Avenue
109 Fearing Street 155 Sunset Avenue
130 Fearing Street 156 Sunset Avenue
133 Fearing Street 164 Sunset Avenue
140 Fearing Street 174 Sunset Avenue
143 Fearing Street
150 Fearing Street
Hallock Street
45-47 Hallock Street
Lincoln Avenue
135 Lincoln Avenue
136 Lincoln Avenue
143 Lincoln Avenue
145 Lincoln Avenue
148 Lincoln Avenue
154 Lincoln Avenue
155 Lincoln Avenue
160 Lincoln Avenue
163 Lincoln Avenue
166 Lincoln Avenue
171 Lincoln Avenue
174 Lincoln Avenue
179 Lincoln Avenue
180 Lincoln Avenue
191Lincoln Avenue
194 Lincoln Avenue
199 Lincoln Avenue
204 Lincoln Avenue
209 Lincoln Avenue
216 Lincoln Avenue
219 Lincoln Avenue
221 Lincoln Avenue
226 Lincoln Avenue
234 Lincoln Avenue
235 Lincoln Avenue
242 Lincoln Avenue
245 Lincoln Avenue
253 Lincoln Avenue
254 Lincoln Avenue
259 Lincoln Avenue
260 Lincoln Avenue
269 Lincoln Avenue
272 Lincoln Avenue
277 Lincoln Avenue
280 Lincoln Avenue
285 Lincoln Avenue
290 Lincoln Avenue
295 Lincoln Avenue
306 Lincoln Avenue
312-314 Lincoln Avenue
315 Lincoln Avenue
318 Lincoln Avenue
321 Lincoln Avenue
327 Lincoln Avenue
328 Lincoln Avenue
334 Lincoln Avenue
338 Lincoln Avenue
McClellan Street
10 McClellan Street
15 McClellan Street
16 McClellan Street
19 McClellan Street
20 McClellan Street
24 McClellan Street
25 McClellan Street
30 McClellan Street
35 McClellan Street
42 McClellan Street
43 McClellan Street
44 McClellan Street
46 McClellan Street
50 McClellan Street
51 McClellan Street
54 McClellan Street
57 McClellan Street
65-67 McClellan Street
68 McClellan Street
76 McClellan Street
77 McClellan Street
81 McClellan Street
84 McClellan Street
87 McClellan Street
90 McClellan Street
Committee Members
Steve Bloom - Chair
Maurianne Adams - Vice Chair
Suzannah Fabing
Bill Gillen, Architect
Phil Shaver, Historical Society
Ed Wilfert
Bonnie MacCreachen - 2014-2015
Gretchen Fox - 2014-1015
Student Interns (Supported with CPA Grant Funds for historical research):
Elizabeth Gouin
Sean McWilliams
The Formation of the Committee
In June 2012, despite great neighborhood outcry, a century-old barn on Lincoln Avenue with ties to the poet Robert frost was demolished. The Amherst Historical Commission urged the neighborhood to pursue a Local Historic District. In November of that year a group of citizens made a proposal for a study committee to the Historical Commission, who later proposed the creation of the Committee to the Select Board. On April 22, 2013 the Select Board voted unanimously to establish the Lincoln-Sunset Local Historic District Study Committee.
“As chair of the Amherst Historical Commission, I speak for the commission when I say that we are wholeheartedly behind the formation of a study committee… Neighborhood support is overwhelming, and they are highly deserving of this designation.”
Michael Hanke, chair of the Amherst Historical Commission (2013)
Over the course of the next two years, the committee researched and documented well over two hundred properties, creating a database that will soon be available to the public.
The Committee held two public hearings, one on May 26, 2016 and the other on March 16, 2017. After receiving support from the Massachusetts Historical Commission in December, 2016, the Study Committee presented in front of the Select Board, the Planning Board, the Historical Commission and the Finance Committee, who all gave their support.
In the hopes of preserving and protecting the historic structures and neighborhood which makes Amherst a unique and desirable place to live and visit, the Study Committee recommends to the Town Meeting the creation of the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset Local Historic District.