Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a college in Town of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Hampshire College is situated nearby to the museum Yiddish Book Center, as well as near Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and Yiddish Book Center.
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Museum
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a museum devoted to the art of the picture book and especially the children's book. It is a member of Museums10 and is adjacent to the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Hampshire College.
Yiddish Book Center
Museum
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The Yiddish Book Center Yiddish: ייִדישער ביכער־צענטער, romanized: Yidisher Bikher-Tsenter, located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. Yiddish Book Center is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Hampshire College.
Bare Mountain
Peak
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Bare Mountain, 1,014 feet above sea level, is a prominent peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Amherst and Hadley Center Historic District.
South Amherst
Village
South Amherst is a census-designated place in the town of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,994 at the 2010 census. South Amherst is situated 1½ miles northeast of Hampshire College.
Hadley Center Historic District
Neighborhood
The Hadley Center Historic District is an expansive, 2,500-acre historic district encompassing the village center of Hadley, Massachusetts. When it was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the district encompassed the town green and 17 buildings that faced it, at the junction of Russell Street and Middle Street. Hadley Center Historic District is situated 3 miles northwest of Hampshire College.
Hadley
Hadley is a small town in the Pioneer Valley, in Western Massachusetts. Despite its small population, it has a reasonable commercial strip that harbors a few malls, providing a more mainstream shopping experience than its larger neighbors, Amherst and Northampton.
Hampshire College
- Type: College
- Wheelchair access: limited
- Category: education
- Location: Town of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.32466° or 42° 19′ 29″ northLongitude
-72.53081° or 72° 31′ 51″ westElevation
266 feet (81 metres)Open location code
87J98FF9+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 118883522OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=collegeOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
4938755
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“Hampshire College” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلية هامبشير”
- Chinese: “漢普郡學院”
- Persian: “کالج همپشایر”
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