{"nrhp_refnum":"11000585","name":"Amherst Central Business District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["\"The Lord Jeff\""],"category":"district","location":{"address":"30 Boltwood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amherst","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.37654401200007,"lon":-72.51792021499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Lord Jeffery Inn is a Colonial Revival brick hotel at 30 Boltwood Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the corner of Boltwood Avenue and Spring Street facing the Amherst Common. It opened in June 1926 and is added to the Amherst Central Business District as a boundary increase.","why_significant":"The inn was built to serve Amherst College alumni, visitors and commencement gatherings, and also to serve townspeople and tourists. It was financed by the Amherst Inn Company and praised on opening for its rambling Georgian and colonial design. The excerpt available does not include the full statement of significance or the criteria marked.","narrative":"Lord Jeffery Inn, at 30 Boltwood Avenue in Amherst, is a Colonial Revival hotel of red brick under a black slate roof. It faces the Amherst Common and steps down Spring Street in four blocks that read as separate but attached buildings. Details include Classical entry porches, a Palladian window, a denticulated cornice, dormers and iron balconies. Amherst College alumni drove the creation of the inn, which opened on June 3, 1926, after construction began in 1925 at a cost of about $378,790. Caper Ranger Construction Company of Holyoke served as general contractor, and L. G. Treadway was the first manager. The inn offered private dining rooms for class dinners and a large dining room that could be enlarged for Commencement. Local residents and tourists were also expected to use it. Later changes, such as enclosed porches and galleries, did not appreciably alter the original design. It is included as a boundary increase to the Amherst Central Business District.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Caper Ranger Construction Company of Holyoke, general contractor (architect not named in the excerpt)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The building is listed with hotel as both its historic and current function. Alterations since 1926 include enclosed galleries and porches, vinyl replacement shutters and a modified Block 3 on Spring Street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.915805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7954/63795429/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/11000585.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000585/2f3bcb1d5a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000585/2f3bcb1d5a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Pleasant_Street,_Amherst_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Pleasant_Street,_Amherst_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77000182","name":"Dickinson Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/dickinson-historic-district-77000182/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Central_Business_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4746016"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/amherst-central-business-district-boundary-increase-11000585/"}