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. 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. The Committee held two public hearings, one on and the other on March 16, 2017. 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. Michael Hanke, chair of the Amherst Historical Commission (2013) “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.” The high point of Fanny’s expeditioning came in 1906 with the ascent of Pinnacle Peak (22,810 feet) in the Nun Kun region of India. On Apthe Select Board voted unanimously to establish the Lincoln-Sunset Local Historic District Study Committee. 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. The Amherst Historical Commission urged the neighborhood to pursue a Local Historic District. In the same sense as I speak about it in my pamphlet The Victory of the Cadets and the Tasks of the Workers Party7 (this pamphlet was distributed among the.

In June 2012, despite great neighborhood outcry, a century-old barn on Lincoln Avenue with ties to the poet Robert frost was demolished.

Student Interns (Supported with CPA Grant Funds for historical research): Research each home within the neighborhoodġ11 Amity Street 44 North Prospect Streetġ17 Amity Street 52 North Prospect Streetġ25 Amity Street 57 North Prospect Streetġ51 Amity Street 58 North Prospect Streetġ55 Amity Street 62 North Prospect Streetġ75-177 Amity Street 63 North Prospect Streetġ97 Amity Street 65 North Prospect StreetĢ19 Amity Street 71 North Prospect StreetĢ29 Amity Street 74 North Prospect StreetĢ43 Amity Street 77 North Prospect StreetĢ45 Amity Street 82 North Prospect Streetġ4 Beston Street 90 North Prospect Streetġ5 Beston Street 94 North Prospect Streetġ7 Beston Street 96 North Prospect StreetĢ0 Beston Street 100 North Prospect Street

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