University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Historically Known As: Amherst Agricultural College
- Address: N Pleasant St
- Vicinity: Massachusetts Ave
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1830/00/00 | S D Warren | Education | Sam Warren receives his early education at a Quaker school in Groton, and later an academy in Amherst. | |||
| 1843/00/00 | Rev Zephaniah Moore Humphrey | Education | Zepheniah M Humphrey graduates from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. | |||
| 1844/00/00 | David Sears | Benefactor | David Sears's gift of $10,000 rescues Amherst College during a difficult time and marks the beginning of the Sears Foundation of Literature and Benevolence. | |||
| 1865/00/00 | Charles Montague Cooke | Education | Charles Montague Cooke attends Amherst Agricultural College. | |||
| 1883/00/00 | College Drill Hall (gymnasium) is erected in 1883. East and West Experiment Stations will be built in 1886 and 1890. Campus Pond will be created in 1893. | |||||
| 1887/00/00 | Stephen C Earle | Architect | Old Chapel Library is built in the Richardson Romanesque-style between 1884 and 1887 at a cost of $25,000. | |||
| 1963/10/26 | John F Kennedy | Dignitary | On the site of the former Walker Hall, an estimated 10,000 people attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College, on the north side of the central campus quadrangle. JFK spoke for four minutes. |
| Particulars for University of Massachusetts Amherst: | |
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| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
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