Captain Lombard House: Amherst 1940

Robert T. Gass, then living in Deerfield, purchased the Captain Lombard House house from the State of Masschusettes for

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$50.00(!)   He took down the house by hand "...board by board and brick by brick..." and reconstructed it at the current location, 152 Triangle Street starting Summer 1938.

On completion, he presented it to his bride, the former Ann Gillern of North Hampton, as a gift on their wedding day in 1939.

At the right is the Captain Lombard House as it appeared early Spring 1940. The small porch that was on the right side of the house at the Enfield site was not reconstructed because it was not in the original Cape Code design.  So, the basic shell of the house as built in 1768 has been retained to the present. The lamp at the front of the house was fueled by natural gas, but was designed to simulate lamps put at the front of homes in the area in the 1760's.

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