UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

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MAILING ADDRESS
University of Massachusetts Press
P.O. Box 429
Amherst, MA 01004

STREET ADDRESS
East Experiment Station
671 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Telephone: (413) 545-2217
Fax: (413) 545-1226

ORDERS
Send orders, payments, and correspondence to:
University of Massachusetts Press
c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Service
P.O. Box 50370, Baltimore, MD 21211-4370
Email: hfscustserv@mail.press.jhu.edu
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Maryland residents and outside U.S.: (410) 516-6965
Fax: (410) 516-6998

Built in 1890 to house the Department of Vegetable Pathology, the East Experiment Station was designed by architect Emory Ellsworth in the Richardson Romanesque style, with arched windows, brownstone lintels, sculpted downspouts, and rusticated stone and brick construction. Each office on the first floor has rectangular panels of stained glass above the windows. Although the ornate Victorian greenhouse is gone, the building was carefully refurbished for our use.


East Experiment Station, c. 1910	East Experiment Station, 1918

East Experiment Station, 2004

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