Northampton

Northampton is a city in the of . It has a picturesque and vibrant downtown, consisting of numerous art galleries, restaurants and quirky shops sprinkled among coffee shops and performing arts venues.
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  • Type: Town with 29,600 residents
  • Description: county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Nalwottoge”, “Nolwottoge”, “Nonatuck”, “Nonotuck”, “Nonotuck City of Northampton”, “North Hampton”, “Northampton, MA”, “Northampton, Massachusetts”, “Northhampton”, “Norwottocke”, and “Paradise City”
  • Postal codes: 01060, 01061, and 01063

Places of Interest

Highlights include Smith College and Smith College Museum of Art.

College
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is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875.

Arts center
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The , abbreviated SCMA, is the art museum of , located in Northampton, . First established in 1870, the museum is part of the American Alliance of Museums, Five College Consortium, and Museums10 consortiums.

Historic building
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is a historic building in Northampton, Massachusetts, that served as a train station from 1897 until 1987. Built at the close of the nineteenth century, the structure incorporates many features of the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hadley and Northampton Downtown Historic District.

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is a small town in the , in Western . 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, and Northampton.

Neighborhood
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The encompasses most of the central business district of Northampton, Massachusetts. This area, which has been a center of commerce and industry in the area since colonial days, extends from the railroad tracks on the east side of the downtown, and west along Main Street to its junction with West Street and Elm Street.

Neighborhood
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is a historic district roughly on South Street between Lyman to Monroe in Northampton, Massachusetts. Fort Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1989.

Northampton

Latitude
42.3179° or 42° 19′ 4″ north
Longitude
-72.6311° or 72° 37′ 52″ west
Population
29,600
Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)
Inception
1654
United Nations Location Code
US NHM
Open location code
87J98999+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158819501
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4945819
Wiki­data ID
Q49186
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Northampton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نورثهامبتون (ماساتشوستس)”
  • Arabic: “نورثهامبتون”
  • Armenian: “Նոտթհեմփտոն”
  • Basque: “Northampton”
  • Belarusian: “Нартгемптан”
  • Belarusian: “Нортхемптан”
  • Bulgarian: “Нортхамптън”
  • Catalan: “Northampton”
  • Cebuano: “Northampton”
  • Chechen: “Нортгемптон”
  • Chinese: “Northampton”
  • Chinese: “北安普敦”
  • Czech: “Northampton”
  • Dagbani: “Northampton”
  • Danish: “Northampton”
  • Dutch: “Northampton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نورثهامبتون”
  • Esperanto: “Northampton”
  • Finnish: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Finnish: “Northampton”
  • French: “Northampton”
  • Galician: “Northampton”
  • Georgian: “ნორტჰემფტონი”
  • German: “Northampton”
  • Gilaki: “نؤرث‌همپتن (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “نؤرث‌همپتن”
  • Greek: “Νορθάμπτον”
  • Haitian: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Northampton”
  • Hebrew: “נורת‘ המפטון”
  • Hebrew: “נורת’המפטון (מסצ’וסטס)”
  • Hebrew: “נורת’המפטון, מסצ’וסטס, ארצות הברית”
  • Hebrew: “נורת’המפטון, מסצ’וסטס”
  • Hebrew: “נורת’המפטון”
  • Hungarian: “Northampton”
  • Indonesian: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Indonesian: “Northampton”
  • Irish: “Northampton”
  • Italian: “Northampton”
  • Japanese: “ノーザンプトン (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “ノーサンプトン”
  • Japanese: “ノースハンプトン市（英語サイト）”
  • Kazakh: “Норсэмптон”
  • Kirghiz: “Норсэмптон”
  • Korean: “노샘프턴”
  • Ladin: “Northampton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Northampton”
  • Malagasy: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Northampton”
  • Mazanderani: “نورتهامپتون (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “نورتهامپتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Northampton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Northampton”
  • Norwegian: “Northampton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Northampton”
  • Persian: “نورتهامپتون، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “نورتهامپتون”
  • Polish: “Northampton”
  • Portuguese: “Northampton”
  • Russian: “Нортгемптон”
  • Russian: “Нортхемптон”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Northampton”
  • Serbian: “Нортхемптон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Northampton”
  • Silesian: “Northampton”
  • Slovak: “Northampton”
  • Slovenian: “Northampton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نورتهامپتون، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Northampton (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Northampton”
  • Swedish: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Northampton”
  • Talysh: “Northempton”
  • Tatar: “Нортгемптон”
  • Tatar: “Нортһәмптон”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Northampton”
  • Turkish: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Northampton”
  • Ukrainian: “Нортгемптон”
  • Urdu: “نارتھیمپٹن، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “نارتھیمپٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Northampton”
  • Vietnamese: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Northampton”
  • Volapük: “Northampton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Northampton”
  • Welsh: “Northampton, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Northampton”

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