The Lafayette Road neighborhood, including Farragut Rd, Prescott Rd, Putnam Rd. and Lafayette Rd. was built in the first decade of the 20th Century on farm land previously belonging to J. C. Underhill and other families along Topsfield Rd.
The Lafayette Street neighborhood did not exist in this 1884 map of Ipswich.
Agawam Heights sales brochure
1910 Ipswich Ma map showing Lafayette, Farragut Streets and Wayne Avenue
Plan of Agawam Heights, 1896
The hillside between Mount Pleasant Street and Topsfield Road was still farmland and orchard in the 1893 Ipswich Birdseye map.
The photos of the earlier Underhill house and new houses under construction are from glass plate negatives in the collection of William J. Barton, taken by Edward L. Darling circa 1910.
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- J. C. Underhill house. This house was at 1 Topsfield Rd., where Precision Pilates is today.
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- J. C. Underhill house, which was at 1 Topsfield Rd.
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- Morin house, 4 Lafayette Rd.
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- 4 Lafayette Rd.
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- Hathaway house, 6 Lafayette Rd., 1910
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- 6 Lafayette Rd.
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- William Mayes house, 13 Lafayette Rd., circa 1910. Photo by Edward L. Darling, from the collection of William J. Barton
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- 13 Lafayette Rd. today
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- 14 Lafayette Rd. (The porch has been closed in.)
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- 14 Lafayette Rd.,
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- Eben Fowler house, 22 Lafayette Rd., Ipswich, circa 1910. Photo by Edward L. Darling, from the collection of William J. Barton
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- 22 Lafayette Rd. today
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- Spencer house, 9 Prescott Rd.
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- 9 Prescott St. today
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- Unknown house. Can anyone help us identify it?
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- William Barras boarding house, 3 Farragut Rd., just behind the J. C. Underhill house on Topsfield Rd. (above)
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- 3 Farragut Rd., Ipswich (today)
