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• Historic Ipswich
  • “Labor in Vain House,” c.1720 (Labor in Vain-Fox Creek private road)
  • 1 High Street, the Nathaniel Rogers Old Manse (1727)
  • 1 Highland Avenue, the Wainwright School (1890)
  • 1 Lords Square, Payne School (1802)
  • 1 Manning Street, the E.H. Martin house (1880)
  • 1 Meeting House Green, the First Congregational Church (1971)
  • 1 Old England Road, Moritz B. Philipp and Jane Peterson estate (1885)
  • 1 Poplar Street, the Lathrop house (1912)
  • 1 Scotton’s Lane, the Choate-Scotton house (c 1863)
  • 1 South Green, the Captain John Whipple House (1677 / 1725)
  • 1 Turkey Shore Road, the Burnham-Patch-Day house c1670-1730
  • 10 Argilla Rd., Harry Joyce house (c 1885)
  • 10 Blaisdell Terrace (c 1900)
  • 10 Brown Square, Tedfords Lumber (1933)
  • 10 Brown Street, Essex Hosiery Company worker housing (c 1900)
  • 10 County Street, the Dennis – Dodge House (1740)
  • 10 East Street, the Nathaniel Harris house (1819)
  • 10 Hammatt St., the old South Church Vestry (1857)
  • 10 Liberty St., the Brown house (c 1900)
  • 10 Manning Street, the G. Haskell house (circa 1890)
  • 10 Mineral Street, the W. Smith house (c 1860)
  • 10 Riverbank Lane, the John W. Newman house (c 1880)
  • 10 Summer Street, the Charles and Abigail Cotton / Moses Harris House (1838)
  • 10 Washington St., the Mary Holmes – Captain John Lord house (b. 1770)
  • 10 Woods Lane, the Edward and Eliza Plouff house (1837)
  • 100 High Street, the Joseph Fowler house (1720 – 1756)
  • 101 Central Street, Newton house (c 1900)
  • 102 County Road, the Rowell-Homans house (c 1865)
  • 103 High Street, the William Merchant house (1670)
  • 104 Essex Rd., the Joseph and Abigail Marshall farm (1869)
  • 104 High Street, the John Kimball house (1715)
  • 106 Argilla Road, the Octavia Hamlin house (1784)
  • 106 High St. the Caleb Kimball house (1715)
  • 107 Argilla Road, Argilla Farm (c. 1805)
  • 107 Central Street, the Collins house (c 1880)
  • 108 Central Street, the George W. Baker house (1872)
  • 108 High St., the Dow-Harris house (1735)
  • 109 Central Street, Daniel and Mary Collins house (1873)
  • 11 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
  • 11 County Street, the Bennett – Caldwell house (1725)
  • 11 Depot Square, Russell’s Lunch (circa 1900)
  • 11 Liberty Street, the Levi Howe house (c 1870)
  • 11 Poplar Street, the George H. Green house, (c. 1890)
  • 11 South Village Green, the Gables (1838), David Baker
  • 11 Summer Street, the Nathaniel Hovey house (1718)
  • 11 Topsfield Road, the Jacob and William G. Brown house (b 1832)
  • 11 Waldingfield Road, “Applefield,” the Oliver Appleton Farm (1759 and earlier)
  • 11 Warren Street, the Old Warren Fire House and School (1884)
  • 11 Woods Lane, the Merrifield house (1792)
  • 110 Central Street, the Samuel Baker house (before 1884)
  • 110 High Street, the John Kimball Jr. house (1730)
  • 111 Central Street, the Albert and Annie Garland house (1894)
  • 112 High Street, Timothy Ross house, 1840
  • 114 High Street, the Tibbets-Fowler house (1860)
  • 114 Topsfield Road, the Goodhue – Adams house (1763)
  • 115 High Street, the Baker – Sutton house (1725)
  • 116 High Street, the Samuel Rutherford house (1860)
  • 117 County Road, the Hellenic Center (1904)
  • 117 High Street, Brown’s Manor (1886)
  • 118 High Street, the Aaron Rutherford house (1860)
  • 12 Argilla Road, the Norman J. Bolles house (c 1900)
  • 12 Brown St. (c 1890)
  • 12 Green Street, the Andrew Burley house (1688)
  • 12 High Street, the William Russell House (1890)
  • 12 Liberty St., Charles Brown house (c 1890)
  • 12 Manning Street, the Edward T. Pike house (1885)
  • 12 Market Street, the Abraham Wait house (1832)
  • 12 Meeting House Green, the First Church Vestry (1832)
  • 12 North Main Street, Treadwell’s Inn (1737)
  • 12 Summer Street, the Ezra W. Lord house (1848)
  • 12 Warren Street, the Louisa Wells house (c1700)
  • 12 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (1880)
  • 12 Water Street, the Glazier – Sweet house (1728)
  • 12 Woods Lane, Grant’s Barn (1865)
  • 12 Woods Lane, the Joshua B. Grant house (before 1878)
  • 124 High Street, the Joseph King house (1856)
  • 126 County Road, Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital (1916-1987)
  • 126 High Street, Burnham’s Antiques (c 1920)
  • 13 Argilla Road, Thomas and Elizabeth Brown house (c 1844)
  • 13 East St., Ignatius Dodge Shoe Manufacturing (b.1856)
  • 13 High Street, the Joseph Willcomb house (1669-1693)
  • 13 Liberty St., the Roberts house (c 1900)
  • 13 Manning St., the Fields house, (c. 1900)
  • 13 Mount Pleasant Avenue, the Mary Nugent house (1874)
  • 13 Spring Street, the George V. Millett house (1886)
  • 13 Summer Street, the Daniel Clark house (1872)
  • 130 Topsfield Road, the Robert Wallis house (1703)
  • 136 County Rd., the Francis Henry Richardson house (1902)
  • 14 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
  • 14 Brown St., Mitchell-Ralph house (c 1890)
  • 14 Candlewood Road, the Joseph Brown and Elizabeth Perkins house (1779)
  • 14 East Street, the Baker – Newman house (1725)
  • 14 High Street, the George Lord house (1857)
  • 14 Liberty Street, the George B. Brown house (1898)
  • 14 Manning Street (c 1915)
  • 14 Mineral Street (c 1915)
  • 14 Summer St., the Isaiah Rogers house (c 1870)
  • 15 Argilla Road, the George and Mabelle Dexter house (1893)
  • 15 County Street, the Rev. Levi Frisbie house (1788)
  • 15 East Street: Dawson’s Bakery; James and Louise Glover house (c 1870)
  • 15 Elm Street, the Old Town Hall Annex (c 1920)
  • 15 Liberty St. (c 1870)
  • 15 Manning Street (c 1920)
  • 15 South Main Street, the Caldwell Block (1870)
  • 15 Summer Street, the Jonathan Pulcifer house (1718)
  • 153 Argilla Road, the Isaac Goodale house (1669)
  • 155 Argilla Road, the Holman-Ilsley house, c 1790 (moved here in 1951)
  • 16 Brown St., the Leno house (1890)
  • 16 County Street, the Abraham Knowlton house (1726)
  • 16 East Street, the Lakeman-Johnson house (c 1840)
  • 16 Elm Street, the Baker – Tozer house (1835)
  • 16 Elm Street, Within These Walls
  • 16 Fellows Road, the Ruth Fellows house (1714, altered beyond recognition)
  • 16 High Street, the Jacob Manning house (1818)
  • 16 Liberty St., the Martha Curtis house (1885)
  • 16 Manning St. (c 1900)
  • 16 Maple Avenue, the William H. Bodwell house, 1890
  • 16 Mineral Street, Wise Saddle Shop (c.1742 /1801)
  • 16 North Main Street, the Stephen Coburn house (1845)
  • 16 Summer Street, the Treadwell house (1852)
  • 16 Topsfield Road, the Joseph Peatfield house and nursery (1877)
  • 16 Washington Street, the Patrick Riley house (c 1865)
  • 164 Argilla Rd. the Francis Cogswell homestead, 1743
  • 166 Argilla Rd. (1913)
  • 166 Linebrook Road, the William Lummus house (before 1832)
  • 168 Argilla Road, the Tilton-Smith house (c 1720)
  • 17 Argilla Road, the Samuel Wade – S. F. Canney house (1845)
  • 17 County Street, Perkins and Daniels Shoe Factory (1843)
  • 17 High Street, the Thomas Lord house (after 1658)
  • 17 Liberty St., the Blaisdell house (c 1870)
  • 17 Manning Street, the Candlewood School (1856) (moved to this location)
  • 17 Mineral St., the Baxter-Adamowicz house, c 1885
  • 17 Spring Street, the David Dow house, 1857
  • 17 Summer St., the William and Margaret Chapman house (after 1832)
  • 17 Turkey Shore Road, the John Edward Norman house (1895)
  • 173 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
  • 173 Linebrook Road, the Kozeneski farm (c 1900, demolished 2019)
  • 175 County Road, the William Manning house (1820)
  • 176 Argilla Rd., “Thatchbanks” (1912)
  • 178 Argilla Road, the Stephen Smith house (1742)
  • 17th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  • 18 East Street, the Baker-Dodge house (1727)
  • 18 Green Street, the Isaac Stanwood Jr. house (1812)
  • 18 Hammatt Street, the Ipswich gas generator building (1877-2018)
  • 18 Liberty St. (1885)
  • 18 North Main Street, the Charles Kimball house (1834)
  • 18 Washington Street, Sanford Peatfield House (1860)
  • 187 Argilla Rd. (1907)
  • 188 Argilla Road, the Oliver Cogswell house, 1815
  • 18th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  • 19 Brown Square (1903)
  • 19 High Street, the John Blake house (1885)
  • 19 Mineral Street (1856)
  • 19 North Main Street, Thomas & Margaret Heard Manning house (1799)
  • 19 Putnam Rd., the Lezon home (c 1910)
  • 19 Summer Street, the Solomon Lakeman house (before 1745)
  • 197 County Rd.,”Applegate” (1875)
  • 19th Century houses in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd Period Houses in Ipswich Massachusetts
  • 2 Brewery Place (Brown Square) Ipswich Ale Brewery (c 1900)
  • 2 Central Street, the Tyler Building (1906)
  • 2 East Street, the Robert Jordan house (1863)
  • 2 Green Street, the John Perkins house (1860)
  • 2 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Merrill-Kimball house (1839)
  • 2 Labor in Vain Road, the McMahon house (b 1856)
  • 2 Meeting House Green, the Joseph N. Farley house (1842)
  • 2 Mill Road, the Sullivan house (c 1890)
  • 2 North Main Street, the John Appleton house (1707)
  • 2 Old England Road, the Captain Jabez Treadwell house (1748)
  • 2 Poplar Street, Swasey Tavern (1718)
  • 2 Putnam Rd.
  • 2 Turkey Shore, the Heard – Lakeman House (1776)
  • 20 Manning Street (1902)
  • 20 Market Street, the Stacey-Ross house (1734)
  • 20 Mineral Street, the Lucy Ackerman house (c 1870)
  • 203 Argilla Rd., the William Shurcliff house (1963)
  • 207 Argilla Rd., the Sidney Shurcliff house (1935)
  • 208 Argilla Road (1917) the Barney-Smith house
  • 208 Topsfield Road, the Joseph and Judah Goodhue house (1767)
  • 20th Century houses and buildings in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  • 21 East Street, the George Russell house (c 1870)
  • 21 High Street, the Haskell – Lord house (c 1750)
  • 21 Lakemans Lane, the John Manning Farm (c 1825)
  • 21 Manning Street
  • 21 North Main Street, the Theodore Cogswell house (1880)
  • 21 Spring Street, the G. F. Swain summer estate (b 1910)
  • 211 Argilla Rd., the Mary Ann Archer Lord house (1902)
  • 217 Argilla Road, the Townsend house (1902)
  • 219 County Rd., Samuel Appleton “Old House” (1794)
  • 22 East Street, the Moses Fellows House (1873)
  • 22 Elm St. (c. 1840)
  • 22 Mineral Street, the Warner-Harris House (c. 1696, alt. 1835)
  • 22 North Main Street, the Colonial Building (1904)
  • 23 East Street (c 1860)
  • 23 Manning Street (1934)
  • 23 Mineral Street, the Lydia and Joseph Lord house (1871)
  • 232 Argilla Road, the Patch-Brown-Crockett house (c 1760-85)
  • 24 Fellows Rd. (c 1856 & later)
  • 24 High Street, the J.W. Gould House (b 1850)
  • 24 Manning Street, the A. P. Hills house (c. 1900)
  • 24 Market Street, the Aaron Jewett house (c 1800)
  • 24 Summer Street, the William E. Barton house (1884)
  • 24 Topsfield Road, the Moses Kimball house (1688)
  • 240 County Road, the Proctor Estate, New England Biolabs (1895)
  • 246 High St., Ipswich Clam Box, (1935)
  • 248 High Street, the William Spiller house (c 1838)
  • 25 County Street, the J. Caldwell house (c 1860)
  • 25 East St, the Stanwood-Willcomb house (1830)
  • 25 Green Street, the Ipswich Town Hall (1935)
  • 25 Market Street, the Nathaniel R. Farley Shoe Factory (1830-56)
  • 25 North Main Street, the Ipswich Public Library
  • 251 Topsfield Road, Turner Hill (1900)
  • 26 County Street, the John M. Dunnels house (1867)
  • 26 East Street, the Staniford – Polly Dole -John Updike house (1687-1720)
  • 26 High Street, the Philip Call house (1659, with additions)
  • 26 Manning Street, the Sullivan house (1927)
  • 26 Mineral Street (c 1870)
  • 26 North Main Street, the Agawam House (1806)
  • 27 Argilla Rd. (1928)
  • 27 East Street, the Widow Elizabeth Caldwell house (1740-1755)
  • 27 High Street, the Edward Browne House (c 1650-1750)
  • 27 Lakeman’s Lane, the Benjamin Fellows house (c. 1719)
  • 27 Market Street, the Ipswich Post Office (1939)
  • 27 Northgate Road, the Asa Stone Barn (1839)
  • 27 Summer Street, the Thomas Knowlton house (1688)
  • 28 County St., the Asa Stone -Theodore Wendel house (1872)
  • 28 Mineral Street (c 1880)
  • 28 Topsfield Road, Sacred Heart Church (1903)
  • 28 Water Street, the Harris – Stanwood House (1696)
  • 280 Argilla Road, the Inn at Castle Hill (1860)
  • 280 High Street, the Charles and Fostina Guilford house (1880)
  • 285 High Street, the Daniel Nourse house (1809)
  • 29 High Street, the Daniel Brown Smith house (1819)
  • 29 Labor in Vain Rd., the Isaac Foss house (c 1900)
  • 29 North Main Street, the Odd Fellows Building (1817)
  • 29 Woods Lane, A.L.R. Mahoney house (c 1900)
  • 290 High Street, the Jacob Pickard house, (1812)
  • 290 Linebrook Rd. the Chapman-Small House
  • 296 High Street, the Oliver Bailey house (1831)
  • 297 Linebrook Road, the Joseph Chapman house (1720)
  • 3 Argilla Rd. (c. 1900)
  • 3 Candlewood Rd., the Brown-Whipple house (1812)
  • 3 County Street, the William Treadwell house (1850)
  • 3 East Street, the James W. Perkins house and Provisions (1860)
  • 3 High Street, the John Gaines house (1725)
  • 3 Hovey Street, the John Kendrick house
  • 3 Liberty St., the Foster house (c 1880)
  • 3 Loney’s Lane, the Aaron Day Wells house (c 1850)
  • 3 Manning St. (after 1910)
  • 3 Maple Avenue, the Harland and Blanche Burke house (1916)
  • 3 Mineral Street, the Charles H. Baker house (c 1870)
  • 3 Newbury Road, the Philomen Foster house and barn (1787)
  • 3 Short Street, the Short Street Store (1884)
  • 3 Spring Street, the James Scott house (1840)
  • 3 Summer Street, the Benjamin Kimball house (Thomas Smith “currier” c 1730, moved in 1803)
  • 30 Candlewood Rd., the Ephraim Brown house (1825)
  • 30 East Street, the Francis Jordan house
  • 30 High Street, the Joseph Bolles house (1722)
  • 30 Jeffreys Neck Road, The Searle estate (1910)
  • 30 South Main Street, the Old Town Hall (1833)
  • 30 Summer Street, the Smith-Barton house (moved 1880)
  • 306 Linebrook Road, the Deacon William Foster Conant house (1833)
  • 307 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1759)
  • 31 Argilla Rd. (c 1910)
  • 31 County Street, Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church (1875)
  • 31 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Nathaniel Scott house (1838)
  • 31 Mineral Street (c 1870)
  • 31 North Main Street, the Methodist Church (1859)
  • 31 South Main Street, the Dr. Joseph Manning house (1727)
  • 31 Summer Street, the Bartlett house (c 1870)
  • 31 Washington St., the Laffy – Chapman – Morrill house (c 1880)
  • 310 High Street, the Stephen Pearson house (1808)
  • 311 High Street, the Amos Jewett house (1834)
  • 315 High Street, the Apphia Jewett house (1834)
  • 315 Linebrook Road, the William Conant house (1777)
  • 317 High Street, the Capt. George Washington Howe house (1850)
  • 32 Washington Street, the Frederick Bray – Daniel Nourse House (c 1870)
  • 32 Water Street, the Jabesh Sweet house (1713)
  • 320 High Street, the Jonathan Crowell Fox heel factory (1888)
  • 320 Linebrook Rd., the Daniel Conant house (1875)
  • 321 High Street, the Aaron Jewett – Mark Cate house (1780)
  • 327 High Street, the Annie Donovan house (1873, reconstructed in 1914)
  • 33 Broadway St., the Barkowski house (c 1920)
  • 33 Central Street, Memorial Hall (1921)
  • 33 East St., the Old Store (1830)
  • 33 High Street, the John and Sarah Dillingham Caldwell house (1660/1709)
  • 33 Mineral Street, the Caroline Norman house, 1884 (moved from Central St.)
  • 33 North Main Street, the Nathaniel Wait house (1865)
  • 34 High Street, the White Horse Inn (1659 / 1763)
  • 34 Lakeman’s Lane, the Wade-Kinsman- Cameron house (c 1860)
  • 34 Mitchell Road, the Mitchell Farm (1800)
  • 34 North Main Street, the William Pulcifer house (1836)
  • 341 Linebrook Road, the Lot Conant house (1717, altered beyond recognition)
  • 347 Linebrook Road, the Foster-Conant house (1840)
  • 35 Central St., the Caldwell-Copp house
  • 35 County St., the Lydia and Reuben Daniels house (1863)
  • 35 East Street, the Luther Wait house (1810)
  • 35 Mill Road, the Captain William Warner house (1780)
  • 35 Mineral Street, the Smith house (c 1835)
  • 35 Washington Street, the Charles and Margaret Bell house (c 1890)
  • 36 Candlewood Road, the Martin Keith house (1807, moved 1995)
  • 36 North Main Street, the Dr. John Manning house (1769)
  • 36 South Main St., the Hall-Haskell House (Ipswich Visitor Center), 1820
  • 36 Summer Street, the John Brocklebank house (1856)
  • 36 Water Street, the York – Averill House (1715)
  • 37 East Street, the Stephen Baker house (1834)
  • 37 High Street, Lord – Baker House (1720)
  • 37 South Main Street, Baker’s Store (b. 1828)
  • 37 Summer Street, the William H. Jewett house (b 1872)
  • 37 Washington Street, the Brown-Grossman-Doucette house (1884)
  • 375 Linebrook Rd., the Thomas Foster house (1800)
  • 38 Central Street, the Measures building (c 1900)
  • 38 East Street, the John Harris house (1743)
  • 38 High Street, the Joseph N. Caldwell house (c 1875)
  • 38 Newmarch St., the Tobias Lakeman House (1732)
  • 38 North Main Street, the Old Post Office (1763)
  • 38 Summer Street, the William M. and Jennie Ellsworth house (1881)
  • 387 Linebrook Road, David Tulley Perley farm (1880)
  • 39 – 41 High Street, the Daniel Lummus house (1746 with earlier elements)
  • 39 Broadway St. (1929)
  • 39 Mineral Street (c 1920)
  • 39 Summer Street, the Foster – Grant house (1717)
  • 391 Linebrook Road, Linebrook Parish Church (1848)
  • 392 Linebrook Road, the Emerson Howe house (1810)
  • 393 Linebrook Rd., the David Tullar Perley house (1851)
  • 395 Linebrook Rd., the Alvin T. Guilford house (1835)
  • 4 Cameron Avenue (1928)
  • 4 East St., the old Methodist Parsonage, 1830
  • 4 Elm Street, Condon’s Grocery
  • 4 Green Street, the William H. Graves house (1852)
  • 4 Highland Ave., the George & Elizabeth Spencer house (c 1910)
  • 4 Lords Square, Old Fire House (c 1870)
  • 4 Maple Avenue, the Arthur H. and Madeline H. Tozer house (1915)
  • 4 Mount Pleasant Ave., the William Hayes building, c 1890
  • 4 Old Right Road, the Tenney house (c 1900)
  • 4 Water Street, the Jewett house (1849)
  • 4-6 Summer Street, the Cotton-Nourse house (1840)
  • 40 High Street, the William Caldwell House (1733)
  • 40 North Main Street, the Captain Brewer house (1825)
  • 40 Summer Street, the Denison Rust house (b 1872)
  • 402 Linebrook Rd. (1929)
  • 403 Linebrook Road, the Timothy Morse house (1817)
  • 41 Candlewood Road, the Boardman house (c 1730)
  • 41 Linebrook Road, Old Cross Farm (c 1717)
  • 41 Turkey Shore Road, the William Howard House (c.1680/ 1709)
  • 41 Washington Street, the George Brown house (1883)
  • 41-47 South Main St., R. W. Davis dealership (1930)
  • 411 Linebrook Rd. (1938)
  • 419 Linebrook Rd., the Eliza Howe Perley house (1840)
  • 42 East Street, the Joseph Hovey house (1850)
  • 42 Heartbreak Road, the Thomas and John Low house (frame before 1684)
  • 42 High Street, the Abner Harris house (c 1800)
  • 42 Labor in Vain Road, the Arthur L. Sweetser house (c. 1898)
  • 42 North Main Street, the John Johnson house (1871)
  • 42 Washington Street, DJ’s Variety Store (1938)
  • 421 Linebrook Road, the Abraham Howe barn (1725)
  • 43 Argilla Road, the Giddings – Burnham house (b 1667)
  • 43 Avery St. (c 1900)
  • 43 High Street, the Fitts- Manning-Tyler house (1767)
  • 43 Summer Street, the Wilcomb-Pinder house (1718)
  • 437 Linebrook Road, the Allen Perley farm (1784)
  • 44 Argilla Rd. (c 1930)
  • 44 Central St., the Ellen V. Lang house (c 1885)
  • 44 East Street, the John Roberts house (c 1870)
  • 44 Fellows Road, the Joseph Fellows Jr. house (1734)
  • 44 High Street, the Francis Goodhue house (circa 1800)
  • 44 Mill Road, Holiday Hill, The William and Violet Thayer house (1897)
  • 44 North Main Street, the Harry K. Dodge & Josephine Hurd house (1886)
  • 44 Washington St., the Howard Hills house (1905)
  • 45 County Street, the Amos Dunnels house (1823)
  • 45 Heartbreak Road, the James Burnham house (1690)
  • 45 High Street, the John Lummus house (1712)
  • 45 North Main Street, the Isaac Flitchner house (1860)
  • 46 N. Main Street, the James Damon house (1866)
  • 46 Summer Street, the James Foster house (1720)
  • 46 Washington Street, the James S. Marble- James Peatfield house (1860)
  • 47 County Street, the Benjamin Grant house (1735)
  • 47 Jeffreys Neck Rd., the Dodge house, Greenwood Farm (1870)
  • 47 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Paine house (1694)
  • 47 North Main Street, the George Farley House (1888)
  • 48 East St., the Tyler Caldwell house (1860)
  • 48 High Street, Samuel W. Baker house (1852)
  • 48 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Hannah Aspell house, 1854
  • 48 Market Street, the Bailey house (c 1887)
  • 48 North Main Street, the Thomas Morley house (c 1750, alt. 1845)
  • 48 Summer St., the Alonzo and Abbie Butler house, (1868)
  • 48 Turkey Shore Road, the Nathaniel Hodgkins house (1720)
  • 49 Candlewood Road, the Robert Kinsman house (b 1714)
  • 49 North Main Street, the John Chapman house (1770)
  • 49 Turkey Shore Road, the Austin Measures house (1874)
  • 5 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
  • 5 County Street, the Richard Rindge / Pindar house (1718)
  • 5 Hemlock Drive: Fairview, the Charles Campbell estate (1900)
  • 5 Linebrook Rd., the Richard Lane house (1851)
  • 5 Maple Avenue, the G. Baxter – Frank Campbell house (1890)
  • 5 South Village Green, the Aaron Smith house (1776)
  • 5 Spring Street, the Henderson house (c. 1880)
  • 5 Summer Street, the Widow Fuller house (1725)
  • 5 Wildes Court, the James H. and Frances Lakeman house (circa 1900)
  • 5-7 Poplar Street, the Dr. John Calef house (1671)
  • 50 Argilla Road, the Burnham-Andrews house (1815)
  • 50 Mill Road, the Caleb Warner house (1734)
  • 50 North Main Street, the James Brown house (1700 / 1721)
  • 50-56 Market Street, the Lord-Sullivan-Haskell house (1847)
  • 51 East St., 1845 (demolished)
  • 51 Linebrook Road, the Hart House (1678)
  • 51 North Main Street, the Sarah Lord house (1849)
  • 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Ross Tavern – Lord Collins house (c 1690)
  • 52 Jeffreys Neck Road, Shatswell Planters Cottage (c 1646)
  • 52 N. Main Street, the Treadwell – Hale house (1799)
  • 52-54 High Street, the Kingsbury – Lord – Harris house (after 1716)
  • 53 Argilla Road, the Samuel Kinsman house (1750-77)
  • 53 Washington Street, the George W. Smith – Pickard House, (1880)
  • 54 S. Main St., the Heard House / Ipswich Museum
  • 55 Central Street, Central Fire Station (1907)
  • 55 East St. (c 1922)
  • 55 Waldingfield Rd., “Waldingfield” (1929)
  • 56 Fellows Road, the Josiah Brown house, (1812)
  • 56 N. Main St., the Dodge and Spiller Grocery (c 1850)
  • 56 Washington Street, the Ephraim Goodhue House (1875)
  • 57 High Street, the Stone – Rust – Abraham Lummus house (c 1750)
  • 57 North Main Street, the Day-Dodge House (1737)
  • 57 South Main Street, Ipswich Mills boarding house (1876)
  • 58 North Main Street, the Captain Richard Rogers House (1728)
  • 58 Waldingfield Rd., the Hoyt house (c 1885)
  • 59 Candlewood Road, the Jeremiah Kinsman house (1752)
  • 59 East Street, the Daniel Rindge house (1719)
  • 59 South Main Street, the Philomen Dean house (Old Lace Factory) (1716)
  • 59 Turkey Shore Road, the Elizabeth and Otis Glover house (c 1870)
  • 59 Washington Street, the Charles W. Bamford house (C 1887)
  • 6 Agawam Avenue, the Augustine Carey – Captain John Hobbs house (1855)
  • 6 East Street, the Daniel Russell house (1818)
  • 6 High Street, the Joseph Ross house (1884)
  • 6 Highland Ave., the George Spencer Sr. house (c 1880)
  • 6 Hovey Street, the Thomas Foulds Ellsworth house (1866)
  • 6 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Oliver L. Sanborn house (1855)
  • 6 Liberty St. (c. 1890)
  • 6 Manning Street, the H. K. Damon house (1890)
  • 6 Meetinghouse Green, the Captain Israel Pulcifer house (1812)
  • 6 Newbury Road, the Joseph B. Perley house (1865)
  • 6 Riverbank Lane, the Henry Rodman Kenyon house (1902)
  • 6 South Main Street, the Shoreborne Wilson – Samuel Appleton house (1685)
  • 6 Water Street, the Reginald Foster house (1690)
  • 6-8 North Main St., Taverner Sparks (c.1671-1710)
  • 61 High Street, the Timothy B. Ross house, c 1870
  • 61 Market Street, formerly the Damon Block (1982)
  • 61 Turnpike Road, the John Foster house (1780)
  • 62 East Street, the Treadwell-Wainwright House (1691 / 1726)
  • 62 Washington St., the Robert Stone house (1869)
  • 63 Turkey Shore Road, the Isaac Foss house (1870)
  • 64 County Road, the Southside Store (c. 1836)
  • 65 Candlewood Road, the Rhoda Kinsman house ( 1776 / 1818)
  • 65 Waldingfield Road, Sunswick (1890)
  • 66 Argilla Road, the George Haskell house (1855)
  • 66 High Street, the John Harris-Mark Jewett house (1795)
  • 66 Labor in Vain Rd., the Giddings-Gould-Weatherall house (1795-1850)
  • 67 Turkey Shore Road, the Stephen Boardman house (1720)
  • 68 County Road, Calvin Locke’s Folly (1836)
  • 68 Essex Rd., the Levi Brown house (1832)
  • 68 High Street, the Wood – Lord house (c 1740)
  • 68 Jeffreys Neck Road, the Captain John Smith house (c 1740)
  • 69 S. Main Street, the Samuel Dutch house (1733, rear section may be older)
  • 7 Argilla Rd. (c. 1920)
  • 7 County Street, the Thomas Dennis House (1663-1706)
  • 7 East Street, the Sadie Stockwell house (1888)
  • 7 Liberty St., the John W. and Annie M. Lord house (C 1867)
  • 7 Linebrook Rd. (1914)
  • 7 Manning St., the E W. Russell house (c 1890)
  • 7 Maple Avenue, the Fred A. Nason house (1896)
  • 7 South Village Green, the Rev. John Rogers – Col. John Baker House (c 1700-1761)
  • 7 Summer Street, the Thomas Treadwell house (C 1740)
  • 70 County Road, the John Hayes house (1910)
  • 72 County Road, the David Giddings house (1828)
  • 73 High Street, the Nathaniel Lord house (C 1720)
  • 74 Essex Rd., the Willard B. and Harriett Manning Kinsman house (1851)
  • 76 County Road, the Asa Wade house (1831)
  • 76 East Street, the Hodgkins – Lakeman House (c. 1690)
  • 77 High Street, the John Kimball house (1680)
  • 78 County Road, the Samuel Wade house (1831)
  • 78 East Street, the James Glover house (c 1860)
  • 78 Washington Street, the Daniel Haskell House (1835)
  • 79 Central Street, the Foster Russell Jr. house (1883)
  • 79 County Road, the Jacob Manning house (c. 1820)
  • 79 East St., Curran house (c 1870)
  • 79 High Street, the Thomas H. Lord house (c 1835)
  • 8 Agawam Avenue, the Newmarch – Spiller house (1798)
  • 8 Brown Street, Timothy Carey house (1890)
  • 8 East Street, the Captain Matthew Perkins house (1701)
  • 8 High Street, Frederick and Sally Ross house (1887)
  • 8 Kimball Ave, the W. B. Richards house (b 1910)
  • 8 Liberty Street, (1938)
  • 8 Linebrook Rd., the C. Chester Caldwell house
  • 8 Manning Street, the Jordan house, (c. 1890)
  • 8 Maple Ave., the George Tozer house (circa 1890)
  • 8 Meeting House Green, the David T. Kimball House (1808)
  • 8 Summer Street, the Daniel Glazier house (1840)
  • 8 Warren Street, the James Harris house
  • 8 Water Street, the Pengry-Harris-Sutton House (1677-1743, completely reconstructed in 2000)
  • 8 Woods Lane, the James Peatfield house (1833)
  • 80 Central Street, the Malachi Nolan house (1877)
  • 80 East Street, the Perkins – Hodgkins House (c 1700)
  • 80 Essex Rd., the Nathaniel and Joanna Kinsman house (c 1770)
  • 82 Central St., the Isaac J. Potter house (b 1884)
  • 82 County Road, the Brown – Manning house (1835)
  • 82 High Street, the John Brewer house (1680)
  • 83 Central Street, the International House (1866)
  • 83 County Road, the Rogers-Brown-Rust House (1665-1723)
  • 83 High Street, the Isaac Lord house, 1696 – 1806
  • 84 County Road, the Reverends Daniel Fitz and Moses Welch house (1829)
  • 84 High Street, the John Smith house (c 1830)
  • 84 Topsfield Rd., the Bosson -Hayward-Goodhue-Jarlowicz house (c. 1874)
  • 85 County Road, the John Wade house (1810)
  • 85 High Street, the Elizabeth and Phillip Lord house (1774)
  • 86 County Road, the Burnham – Brown house (1775)
  • 87 Central Street (c 1890)
  • 87 High Street, the Sewall Jewett house (1830)
  • 88 Central Street, the W. L. Johnson house (c 1880)
  • 88 County Road, the Col. Nathaniel Wade House (1727)
  • 88-90 High Street, the Shatswell-Tuttle house (right side by 1690 / left,1806)
  • 89 Argilla Rd. (1834)
  • 89 High Street, the Moses Jewett house (1830)
  • 9 Argilla Rd. (c 1900)
  • 9 County Street, the Benjamin Dutch house (1705)
  • 9 East Street, the Foster Russell house (1856)
  • 9 Green Street, the Elizabeth Holland house (1811)
  • 9 High Street, the Samuel Newman house (1762)
  • 9 Liberty St. (c. 1880)
  • 9 Manning St., the Albert P. Hills house (c. 1890)
  • 9 Poplar St., the Seward – Mavroides house (1873)
  • 9 Woods Lane, the Francis Merrifield – Mary Wade house (1792)
  • 90 Central Street, the Brown-Riley house (1897)
  • 90 County Road, the William Wade house (1822)
  • 91 Central Street, the Sylvanius and Mary Canney house (c 1866)
  • 91 Old Right Road, the Jacob Potter house (c 1845)
  • 92 Central St., the Abbie G. Lord house, 1871
  • 92 County Road, the Nathaniel Wade house and shop (1810)
  • 93 High Street, the John Cole Jewett house (1813)
  • 935 Bay Road, Hamilton MA, the Dane house
  • 94 County Road, Jesse and John Wade’s shop (1888)
  • 94 Essex Road, the William G. Horton house (c 1900)
  • 95 High Street, the Simon and Hannah Adams house (c. 1700)
  • 96 County Road, Old South Church Parsonage (1860)
  • 97 Central Street, the Olive and Charles McIntire house (1885)
  • 98 Central Street, the William and Abigail Haskell house (b 1884)
  • A complete list of Ipswich enlistments in the Civil War
  • About this site (with Index)
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  • Fine Thread, Lace and Hosiery
  • First Period construction
  • First Period, Georgian and Federal-era houses of Ipswich
  • George Washington’s Farewell Address
  • Gravestones at the Ipswich Old South Cemetery
  • High Street Historic District
  • Highland Cemetery
  • Historic architecture resources
  • Historic districts & neighborhoods
  • Historic maps of Ipswich
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  • Images of Water Street
  • Immigrants Highland Annex Cemetery
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  • Inscriptions at the Old North Burying Ground (from Memento Mori)
  • Ipswich 250th Anniversary Celebration Reported by the Boston Globe
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  • Ipswich Hosiery, page 2
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  • Ipswich houses constructed before 1725 (First Period)
  • Ipswich in the World War
  • Ipswich listings in the National Register of Historic Places
  • Ipswich mills and factories
  • Ipswich Mills Historic District
  • Ipswich Old North Burying Ground Section A
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  • Ipswich Yesterday by Alice Keenan
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  • James and Sanford Peatfield
  • Labor in Vain house, Ipswich (1720)
  • Leslie Road Burial Ground, 169 Leslie Rd., Rowley MA
  • Liberty Street
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  • Locust Grove Cemetery
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  • Mary P. Conley award
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  • Mehitabel Braybrooke, in the Shadow of Salem
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  • Sue Nelson, 2010 Mary P. Conley Award winner
  • Sullivan’s Corner: The Last Years of the Farm
    • Sullivan’s Corner, the backdrop
    • Sullivan’s Corner: Who Was There
    • Sullivan’s Corner: Saving the Barn
    • Sullivan’s Corner: Putting Hay In
    • Sullivan’s Corner: The World Nearby
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    • Sullivan’s Corner: The Cows
    • Sullivan’s Corner: The Stand
    • Sullivan’s Corner: The Land
    • Sullivan’s Corner: The Farm in Repose
    • Sullivan’s Corner: What Remains
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  • The Artisan of Ipswich by Robert Tarule
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  • The Crane Estate (1928)
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  • The East End Historic District
  • The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
  • The Great Estates of Ipswich
  • The Industrial History of the Ipswich River
  • The Ipswich Visitor Center
  • The Jacob Peabody house, 109 North St., Topsfield (1689)
  • Town Reports
  • Turkey Shore, a Colonial and Victorian neighborhood
  • Voices from the Beach: The Ipswich Lighthouse
  • William Lampson -Bradley Palmer estate
  • Stories from Ipswich
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Posts

• April 5, 2023 presentation: How architecture reflects the values of a community
• Destination Ipswich: a walk up Spring Street
• Memento Mori, the Old North Burying Ground
• The Jewel Mill and Stone Arch Bridge
• John Eales, Beehive Maker
• Norm Abram and Matt Diana go inside two old houses
• Unrequited love and a murder-suicide
• A visit to the Whipple House with Paul Valcour & Gordon Harris
• Four old houses that stood on High St.
• Kamon Farm-Turkey Hill hike
• Destination Ipswich: a walk in the dunes
• Mark Quilter, upon complaint against him for striking Rebeckah Shatswell
• The “Great White Hurricane,” March 11, 1888
• Women in Ipswich history
• Ipswich Arts Association
• Bundling
• “Dalliance and too much familiarity”
• The Price Act, passed at Ipswich, February 1777
• Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775
• Newburyport Turnpike opens, February 11, 1805: “Over every hill and missing every town”
• The Commons
• February film series
• Stories from the Courts
• The Keeping of Cattle on Jeffreys Neck
• Hurricanes and winter storms
• Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652)
• Measuring Time–by an hourglass
• Old Roads and Bridges of Newbury and Newburyport
• Flight from Rooty Plain
• Linebrook Parish
• The Cold Friday of January 19, 1810
• Ipswich and the Salem witchcraft trials
• Arthur Wesley Dow’s images of Ipswich
• George Dexter’s early photos of Ipswich
• The Peat Meadows
• Lieutenant Ruhama Andrews and the 1775 Battle of Quebec
• Smallpox
• Ipswich and the breach with Britain
• Saving the Rooster
• Market Street
• Photos of the dunes late on a winter afternoon
• The defiant Samuel Appleton
• Theodore Wendel’s Ipswich
• Strong drink
• The Town Wharf
• County Street, Sawmill Point, and bare hills
• The Fox Creek Canal
• The Devil’s footprint
• Why does Crane Beach have purple sound?
• The Karma of Modern Problems
• Winter walks in the dunes at Castle Neck
• South Main Street
• South Congregational Church
• Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapses and burns, killing workers; January 10, 1860
• Central Street in ashes, January 13, 1894
• Boston’s Great Molasses Flood, January 15, 1919
• The Green Street Bridge
• Manning’s Neck
• The Ipswich Female Seminary
• Tricentennial & 17th Century Day Celebrations
• Ipswich to Marietta, December 1787
• The Great Snows of 2011 and 2015
• Diamond Stage
• The bridges of Ipswich
• Old Toryism, mock Federalism & the Essex Junto
• Argilla Road
• The Great Agawam Stable Fire
• East Street
• Abraham Knowlton, “Workman of rare skill”
• Washington and Liberty Streets
• The temptations of John Dane, a Declaration of Remarkable Providences
• Pingrey’s Plain, the gallows lot
• Samuel Symonds, gentleman: complaint to Salem court against his two servants, 1661
• The Cape Ann Sea Serpent
• The Railroad comes to Ipswich, December 20, 1839
• The Ipswich Town Farm, 1817-1928
• Oh, wintry Christmas of my youth!
• Adrift on a Haystack, December 1786
• The Ipswich Riverwalk mural
• Along the Old Bay Road
• Charles Wendell Townsend, Ipswich naturalist
• Building wooden ships
• Lords Square
• Dow Brook and Bull Brook
• A photographic and chronological history of the Ipswich Schools
• Ipswich during World War II
• “A State of Nature”, Worcester in 1774
• The Intolerable Acts of 1774
• How Christmas came to Ipswich
• John Freeman, an African American Revolutionary War soldier from Ipswich
• The women of Chebacco build a Meeting House
• Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans
• Self-governed at Market Square
• Traditional American Thanksgiving in Art and Song
• Sullivan’s Corner
• Along the Ipswich River
• The Birthplace of American Independence, 1687 
• The Sidney Shurcliff Riverwalk
• 300 years on Grape Island
• The Cape Ann Earthquake, November 18, 1755
• November 5: Guy Fawkes Day (“Pope Night”)
• The Rev. John Wise of Ipswich
• Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich
• Request for Statements of Interest for Public Safety properties
• Old house, new home
• Haunted houses of Ipswich
• Chelmsford Center for the Arts
• Ipswich Hosiery
• The Central Street Victorian neighborhood
• Pioneer in Partnership award
• The Arts Need Space
• The Giles Firmin Park: from tannery to arboretum to playground
• How I came to Ipswich
• The Switch Rideable Artscape
• Living descendants of the Native Americans of Agawam
• Images from the Ipswich Rotary “harnecues,” 1952-55
• Saving the Egypt River
• President Washington visits Ipswich, October 30, 1789
• 1st, 2nd & 3rd period houses in Ipswich
• Account of the soldiers of Chebacco Parish at Bunker Hill
• Wreck of the Edward S. Eveleth, October 1922
• The Legend of Heartbreak Hill
• The Story Behind the Story of Wigwam Hill
• The Revolutionary War letters of Joseph Hodgkins and Sarah Perkins
• The tragic story of Rebecca Rawson, 1679
• The Col. Nathaniel Wade house, 88 County Rd. (1727)
• A romantic tale from the Great Snow of Feb. 21-24, 1717
• A History of Clark Pond, Great Neck, Ipswich MA
• Abigail Adams to John Adams: “All men would be tyrants if they could.”
• My father’s letter, Feb. 10, 1948
• The Ipswich Sparrow
• January 12, 1912: Lawrence Bread and Roses strike
• The Marblehead smallpox riot, January 1774
• A very old pear tree grows in Danvers
• Politics of the Archives Redux: Indigenous History of Indigenous Peoples of Essex County, Massachusetts
• The stagecoach
• The 1918 flu epidemic in Ipswich
• The Bay Circuit Trail in Ipswich
• Teddy Roosevelt’s Ipswich “whistlestop,” December 1912
• Wreck of the Falconer, December 17, 1847
• Paul Revere’s not so famous ride through Ipswich, December 13, 1774
• Death in a snowstorm, December 1, 1722
• Awful Calamities: the Shipwrecks of December, 1839
• Fortitude, Rectitude and Attitude. Remembering the Life and Times of Ipswich Police Sergeant Frank Geist
• Yankee dictionary; a compendium of useful and entertaining expressions indigenous to New England
• Summer Street
• Nancy Weare
• The boy who fell beneath the ice
• The Green Street dam
• Election night in Ipswich
• What our ancestors ate
• Ipswich woman survived two train crashes on February 28, 1956!
• An autumn walk in the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
• Kings Rook and the Stonehenge Club, when Ipswich rocked!
• Play Ball! Bialek Park
• Ipswich in the Great Depression
• David Tenney Kimball, pastor of First Church, 1805 – 1855
• Portraits from Ipswich a century ago
• The Great Colonial Hurricane and the wreck of the Angel Gabriel
• The Spectre Ship of Salem
• Meeting House Green plaque commemorates Lafayette’s visit to Ipswich
• The Mill Road Bridge and the Isinglass Factory
• Ipswich mob attacks Loyalist Representative Dr. John Calef
• Ipswich Village (Upper High St.)
• Nathan Dane
• Saving John Appleton’s house
• Moses and Aaron Pengry and their descendants
• The story of Agnes Surriage, the Marblehead tavern maid
• General Michael Farley
• The grand hotels of Gloucester and Cape Ann
• The Arnold Expedition arrives in Ipswich, September 15, 1775
• Life in the summer of polio
• Mehitable Braybrook, who burned down Jacob and Sarah Perkins’ house, married John Downing and was arrested for witchcraft
• Hurricane Carol, September 6, 1954
• Thomas and Susan French of Ipswich, their sons and daughters
• Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Essex County
• Early Ipswich, “A paradise for politicians”
• Peg Wesson, the Gloucester witch
• Bungalows of Ipswich
• Killed by a swordfish in Ipswich Bay, August 19, 1886
• Wreck of the Watch and Wait, August 24, 1635
• Descendants of Robert Kinsman of Ipswich
• Descendants of John and Judith Gator Perkins of Ipswich
• Homes of the descendants of John Baker of Ipswich
• Land grants & homes of the early settlers of Ipswich
• The Middle Green
• Hannah Jumper leads raid on Rockport liquor establishments, July 8, 1856
• The Muster Murder of 1787
• Ipswich in the Revolutionary War
• Market Square
• The Great Revere Train wreck, August 26, 1871
• Homes of the descendants of Daniel Rindge and Mary Kinsman of Ipswich
• My Ipswich connections
• Homes of the Jewetts
• Homes of the Appletons
• Homes of the Wades
• Homes of the descendants of Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball of Rattlesden, who settled in Ipswich
• Melanson’s fire, August 7, 2009
• Homes of the Lords
• “Kiss of Death” at New England textile mills
• Thoughts on an August Day
• Homes of the Manning family of Ipswich
• Luke and Elizabeth Perkins, notorious disturbers of the peace and a “wicked-tongued Woman”
• Arrival of the English
• Lakemans Lane and Fellows Road
• The Hello Girls
• Illegal Currency: Ipswich and the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41
• Let’s Go Walking……. After Midnight……
• The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692
• A Sunday at Old Ipswich
• John Fiske, 1939-2021
• Thomas and Elizabeth Lull, the Caldwell sons and their descendants
• Deluge! An Eyewitness Account of the Mother’s Day Storm of 2006
• Carted back to Ipswich, 1714
• The Old Town Landings and Wharfs
• The Greek Hotel
• The Grand Old Fourth
• Life in the Time of Greenheads
• A Revolutionary Guest: John Adams’ letters from Ipswich
• Joseph English: Loyalty and Survival in the Life of a Colonial Native Scout
• Mary Perkins Bradbury, charged as a witch
• The witchcraft accusations against Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
• The 1934 parade celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the founding of Ipswich
• The Burke Heel Factory and Canney Lumber Fire, June 19, 1933
• The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778
• Seating in the Meeting House
• In English ways
• The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Morse of Newbury, 1680
• Rum runners
• Nancy’s Corner
• First Church burns, June 13, 1965
• 19th Century: Religion divided the town
• “Dying Confession of Pomp, a Negro Man Who Was Executed at Ipswich on the 6th August, 1795”
• The Legend of Pudding Street
• The old elm tree
• Samuel Symonds’ house
• Mason’s Claim
• Ipswich at war
• The Ipswich jails
• The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
• Little Neck Nostalgia
• Mothers Day Flood, May 14-16, 2006
• Sullivan’s Corner, the last years of the farm
• The Proximity Fuze: How Ipswich women helped win WW II
• The “Little Old Lady from Ipswich” who was seen around the world
• Strawberry Hill and Greenwood Farm
• Taking to the air in Ipswich, 1910
• Rachel Clinton arrested for witchcraft, May 28, 1692
• Roads to Paradise
• The Topsfield Linear Common and the Grand Wenham Canal
• William Clancy, WWI hero
• Warned Out
• Killing wolves
• Hammatt Street, Brown Square and Farley Brook
• The Great Dying 1616-1619, “By God’s visitation, a wonderful plague”
• Legendary ships of Salem
• Choate-Caldwell House, 16 Elm St. (Now at Smithsonian)
• Who Were the Agawam Indians, Really?
• “We walked in the clouds and could not see our way”
• The “Dungeons of Ipswich” during the War of 1812
• The Ipswich clam
• The Legend of Goody Cole
• Samuel Goodhue’s pier
• The “Detested Tea” and the Ipswich Resolves
• Dustbane–sawdust in a can!
• “Ipswich Town” by James Appleton Morgan
• April 1, 1970: The Massachusetts Legislature challenges the Vietnam War
• Newburyport and its Neighborhood in 1874, by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• Depot Square
• The “Birthplace of American Independence”
• The Ipswich Company, Massachusetts State Guard, 1942
• Captain Arthur H. Hardy, 1972
• A tragic story from old Gloucester
• John Winthrop’s journal of the ship Arbella’s voyage to America, March 29 – July 8, 1630
• Clam Battle!
• Ipswich, Slavery and the Civil War
• Eunice Stanwood Caldwell Cowles
• Haselelponah Wood
• Lord Timothy Dexter
• The Amazing Story of Hannah Duston, March 14, 1697
• Troubles with Sheep
• Police open fire at the Ipswich Mills Strike, June 10, 1913
• Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692
• Daniel Denison
• Building a ship in Essex
• The North Shore and the Golden Age of Cycling
• 1793 and 1818: the “Burden of the Poor” divides Ipswich into 3 towns, Ipswich, Hamilton and Essex
• 1639: “The pigs have liberty”
• The Clammer
• The Spectre Leaguers, July 1692
• Wrecks of the coal schooners
• A short history of Ipswich dog laws
• The Ipswich River
• The Ipswich Convention and the Essex Result
• One Third for the Widow
• A Wager on the Rooster
• Lydia Wardwell on her presentment for coming naked into Newbury meeting house
• The Christian Wainwright house, demolished
• The Bull Brook Paleo-Indian Discovery
• Ipswich town meeting
• Little Neck
• Emma Jane Mitchell Safford
• The Ipswich lighthouse
• Parades
• The missing dunes at Castle Neck
• Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the colony’s first published poet
• History of Great Neck
• The Great Ipswich Fright, April 21, 1775
• Bombshell from Louisbourg
• Moll Pitcher, the fortune teller of Lynn and Marblehead
• Ipswich, the Brookfield Massacre and King Philip’s War
• The ghost of Harry Maine
• Candlewood Road
• Soffron Brothers Ipswich Clams
• Supercontinents, ice ages, and the hills of Ipswich
• The reluctant pirate from Ipswich, Captain John Fillmore
• A photographic history of the Ipswich Mills Dam
• John Dunton’s visit to Ipswich and Rowley in 1686
• Ralph W. Burnham, Antiques and Hooked Rugs
• The Strand Opera House and Theater
• John Updike, the Ipswich years
• “Preserve and protect”
• John Winthrop Jr., here and gone
• Glover’s Wharf and the Ipswich coal industry
• Something to Preserve
• The steamship “Carlotta”
• Wreck of the Ada K. Damon
• Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, “disorderly persons” and the innkeeper
• The Tragedy of the Wilderness: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 4
• The first jailbreak in the Colony, March 30, 1662
• Sarah Goodhue’s advance directive, July 14, 1681
• “Brought to Civility” — The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 2
• Gathering salt marsh hay
• The shipwrecks at Ipswich Bar
• Joseph Ross, 19th Century Ipswich bridge builder
• The Middle Circumferential Highway (that never happened)
• The Hayes Hotel
• 1893 Birdseye map of Ipswich
• The Blizzard of ’78, February 5, 1978
• Great Sorrows, the Deadly “Throat Distemper” of 1735
• Ipswich Red Raiders, “a melting pot of awesome contenders!”
• Riverbend, the Barnard estate (Marguery Restaurant), 1915
• The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
• Photos from the Great Snow of 2015
• The Postman Only Rang Once…….
• Dogtown, its history and legends
• How Ipswich celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War
• Discovery of native American shell heap on Treadwell’s Island, 1882
• Rowdy Nights at Quartermaster Perkins’ Tavern
• Native American Influence on English Fashions
• Jake Burridge, the sailor
• The ancient names of Ipswich streets and places
• Jeffreys’ Neck Road
• PTSD in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• After electoral defeat, neither Adams President attended his successor’s inauguration
• “Wording it over the sheep” and behaving badly
• Bill George’s nostalgic look at old Ipswich
• The wearing of long hair and wigs
• “At long last, sir, have you left no sense of decency?”
• Shay’s Rebellion
• The mill girl’s letter: “I can make you blush.”
• The Bones of Masconomet
• Resources for local Native American history and dialects
• Names of the Ipswich slaves
• Wreck of the Hesperus, Dec.15, 1839
• Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America, May 14, 1878
• Santa hits the Ipswich lightkeeper’s house, December 24, 1937
• 1894: the Year that Ipswich Burned
• The Body of Liberties, the “Ipswich Connection,” and the Origin of written Constitutionalism in Massachusetts
• Prominent Members of the early Ipswich bar
• A stroll down Water Street
• John Adams’ long walk through the Neck
• Newburyport interactive map keeps history alive
• High-posted Capes
• The plantations at New Meadows, now Topsfield
• Jack Helfant, the hermit of Sandy Point from 1962-67
• Ipswich Bluffs
• A town of immigrants
• The deadly 1896 and 1911 New England heat waves
• The courtship and marriage of William Durkee and Martha Cross
• The Shatswell Fife and Drum Corps
• The not-so-humble beginnings of Olde Ipswich Days | Ipswich Local News
• Ancient Prejudice against “the Indians” Persists in Essex County Today
• Pink Flamingos, “more musings from a musty mind”
• Behold, a Pale Corpse
• Massachusetts Provincial Law: “An Act to Prevent the Destruction of Alewives on the Ipswich River”
• Early American Gardens
• Green crabs in the salt marsh
• 1816, the year without summer
• Abbott Lowell Cummings, author of “The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay”
• Lucy Kimball
• The Dark Day, May 19, 1780
• Gettin’ away on the ‘Pike
• The farm at Wigwam Hill
• The “Hum”
• The Essex County Receptacle for Idiots and the Insane at Ipswich
• The Willowdale Mill
• The Miles River
• Notable Persons from Ipswich history
• Her name was Patience
• Photos from Clamtown
• The clock tower at Hamilton First Church
• Ipswich in the Civil War
• The Hovey clan and Knowlton’s Close, a 19th Century neighborhood
• The Tithingman at the Ipswich Meeting House
• Nuclear Ipswich, 1967-1970
• “Mill End” Ipswich
• The Newburyport Tea Party, March 1775
• The Lord-Ellsworth farm
• Madame Shatswell’s cup of tea
• Ipswich Caring
• Wind power from the Berkshires lights Ipswich homes
• Col. Nathaniel Shatswell and the Battle of Harris Farm
• The Plum Island Salt Company
• The Cricket
• Colonial New England Funerals
• Crossing the tracks on High Street
• Ipswich Pine
• The Ross Tavern
• 1854: Anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party sweeps Massachusetts elections
• Col. Doctor Thomas Berry, “Last of the Ipswich Aristocracy”
• The Chasm
• Joseph Stockwell Manning, a Civil War hero from Ipswich
• The Choate Bridge
• Reply by the Town of Ipswich to the Boston Pamphlet, December 28, 1772
• The Agawam Diner
• Recollections of A Boy’s Life In The Village
• The Highs & Lows of the Rowley River
• Tales of Olde Ipswich by Harold Bowen
• The Sham Robbery of Elijah Goodrich on his own person, tried in Ipswich
• When Herring Were Caught by Torchlight
• This Old House visits the Ipswich 1634 Meadery
• Jane Hooper, the fortune-teller
• How the Irish made their mark in New England
• Ipswich Mills Dam feasibility study
• Ipswich Pillow lace
• 1788 Massachusetts Act banning “any African or Negro”
• Ipswich Manning house at the MFA
• Acadian exiles in Ipswich, 1755
• Choate Island and Rufus Choate
• The sad story of Alexander Knight
• The Massachusetts Circular Letter, February 11, 1768
• The Gerrymander is born in Essex County, February 11, 1812
• The Ice House
• The Body Snatcher of Chebacco Parish
• Ipswich Genealogy Resources
• Dr. Manning’s windmill
• Crocker Snow, Aviation Pioneer
• Wreck of the Deposit, December 23, 1839
• The Loyalists
• 2017 Mary Conley Award
• “A priceless reservoir of early American history”
• The Ipswich Revolt of 1687
• Freedom for Jenny Slew
• “To the Inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich,” from Thomas Jefferson
• A century ago – The Spanish Flu epidemic raged in Massachusetts in 1918
• Daniel Hovey
• “In the Good Old Summer Time” – Swampscott Estates
• William Franklin of Newbury, hanged for the death of an indentured child in 1644
• Two Taverns for Two Susannas
• Voices of the Great Marsh
• What could be more funner than working in the summer
• Ipswich as described by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Disorder in the Corn Fields: The Colonists and Indian Land, Part 3
• “That we may avoid the least scrupulo of intrusion” – The Colonists and Indian Land, Part I
• Manitou in Context
• “We’re Here For a Good Time, Not For a Long Time.” Remembering the Celebrated Life of Ipswich Police Officer Ed Walsh
• The Cape Ann Vikings
• Old English barns in Ipswich.
• The Battle of Middle Ground
• Sarah Dillingham Caldwell
• Daniel Low’s Silver “Witch Spoons” among Salem’s First Souvenirs
• The hanging of John Williams and William Schooler, July 1637
• The ABCs of Town Meeting
• To secure a competence
• Boston Irish Long Remembered the 1834 Charlestown Convent Fire
• Keeping My Bearings in Changing Times
• In Congress, July 4, 1776
• Governing Ipswich
• Maple Ave.
• Patronage and Scandal at the Ipswich Customs House
• Sketches of Cape Ann
• High Spirits on Town Hill
• Born in a refuge camp
• The Civil War Monument
• The Lowell Offering
• The Constitutional Convention and establishment of the Electoral College
• The “Commonwealth”
• County Street
• 1910 Ipswich census and maps
• The 2016 Ipswich drought
• Asbury Grove Methodist Camp Meeting, Hamilton MA
• The British attack on Sandy Bay, Sept. 8, 1814
• Ghosts of Independence Day
• An Amazing Coincidence on July 4, 1826
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
• The last cottage on Plum Island
• Remembering John Dolan
• How will sea level rise affect Ipswich?
• A Nostalgic Glance at Harvard’s Early History
• Remembering Susan Howard Boice
• The great and famous not so gentle Ipswich putdown
• A Heated Battle – Lodge vs. Curley 1936
• Mass Moments: Puritans Leave for Massachusetts
• The Merchant Princes, Cyrus Wakefield and George Peabody
• Glen Magna and the Joseph Peabody Family of Salem
• Remembering Taffy Hill
• Colonial and Colonial Revival houses
• Primary Colors
• No matter how you roll the dice, it’s still a lot of Clams!
• Something Wicked Your Way Comes
• A simple badge and gun does not a copper make