Photo gallery

Many of these photos were digitally developed from original glass negatives taken by three early Ipswich photographers, Arthur Wesley Dow, George Dexter, and Edward L. Darling.

: The Mill Road Bridge, looking across toward Hamilton. The mill still stands, but the house and barn were moved to the other side of Highland St.

: Two masted schooner at the wharf, with ringbolt rock.

: Auto dealer on S. Main St.

: An early photo of students at Manning School, courtesy of Laura Smith

: F. W. Woolworth at its original location on the north side of Market Street, circa 1950. Photo courtesy of Susan Hubbard, whose father was the manager of the store.

: In 1946 the Damon Building was seiously damaged by fire, and the third floor was removed.

: Benjamin Ellsworth and the Ipswich lighthouse by George Dexter

: The intersection of South Main and Elm Streets. The Ipswich Savings Bank was on the right. In the distance is the Choate Bridge, a line of small shops at the foot of North Main St., and the Ipswich Female Seminary behind them. Photo provided by Bob Swan.

: The Whiipple House being moved, at the intersection of Market St and Market Square

: John Appleton house at the corner of N. Main and Central Streets

: Russell’s Lunch

: This photo of South Main Street and the mill was taken from the roof of the Ipswich Female Seminary.

: Girls at Manning School. The Winthrop School is in the background.

: Coach rides for kids at 17th Century Days

: View of the inside of First Church that burned in 1965

: Brown’s coal gas plant, Hammatt St., Brown Square in the background

: Asa Lord’s store at Lords Square

: First Church, 1934

: Davis Auto on S. Main St.

: Manning High School

: Early aerial view of Ipswich

: The old Caldwell house on High St. was taken down, but several Caldwell homes remain standing.

: The Agawam Brass Band with a horse-drawn trolley behind it.

: Benjamin Ellsworth with family members in front of the lightkeeper’s house. Photo courtesy of Melissa Berry

: 17th Century Day pageant

: Arthur Wesley Dow’s art school

: Asa Lord’s store

: Damon Block (2nd) at Depot Squrare

: Hammatt St. parking lot construction

: Central St. Armistice Day parade

: Lords Square Prime station, when it was Esso

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: Central Street fire of 1894

: Mill Rd. bridge

: Baseball, 1925

: Green St. bridge and jail by George Dexter

: Central St. parade, students from Shatswell School

: Central St.

: Firemen at parade

: Blake’s Drug Store, now the Odd Fellows Building by George Dexter

: Lords Square looking north on High St.

: Agawam Inn before porches. Photo by George Dexter

: Burnham’s Store where Dunkin Donuts is now

: Lighthouse and keepers house by George Dexter

: Hart House by George Dexter

: East St. house, after storm

: Giles Firmin park by George Dexter

: Baseball players, 1894 at what is now Bialek Park

: The Agawam Hotel. Photo by George Dexter

: High Street before the first bridge was built

: Choate Bridge

: Dodge house on N. Main St.

: Ipswich River by George Dexter

: Richard Crane’s first Castle, which his wife hated

: Bella Vista, Little Neck by George Dexter

: First Church when it was red

: Denison School, Meeting House Green

: Unknown girl by George Dexter

: Ipswich Mills water-powered machinery

: Isinglass Mill, Ipswich MA

: Grape Island, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Market Square, photo by George Dexter

: Central Street by George Dexter

: The jail

: High St. house still standing

: Central St. Post Office by George Dexter. Postmaster Luther Wait is the tall man standing on the right.

: Agawam Inn, N. Main (still standing) postcard image

: Civil War memorial across from Meeting House Greet. Photo by George Dexter

: Castle Neck dunes, Arthur Wesley Dow

: The Dustbane factory by George Dexter

: East St (before the landing was paved) by George Dexter

: This Christian Wainwright house was moved to the corner of Market and Saltonstall, later demolished. The Whipple House is in its original location behind it.

: Clam photo hoax by George Dexter

: Essex Bay from the Bluffs by George Dexter

: Camp Agawam, photo courtesy of Bill George, who says that this WWII army camp was located off of Old England Road.

: Burley School

: Daniel Hovey house

: Lords Square, early hand-pulled fire truck

: Hammatt St. parking lot houses before demolition, view from atop Damon Bldg.

: Daniels shoe shop on Summer St.

: In 1792, Dr. John Manning erected a factory at the corner of South Main and Market Street beside the Choate Bridge and began manufacturing cloth and blankets. On the roof squatted a great octagonal tower, inside of which was a horizontal windmill where the Choate Bridge Pub is now.

: Ipswich Jail

: Clam certificate, photo by George Dexter

: Glover’s Wharf

: Grape Island or Ipswich Bluffs

: Lathrop bros. Ice house

: Fire pumper

: Harold Bowen’s house, still standing

: The Whipple House being moved, at the turn from market to South Main.

: Farmhouse and the First Church Steeple, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Market St.

: Currier’s Garage, S. Main. St.

: Sally’s Pond, originally “Centennial Pond”

: The Mill Rd. bridge

: The Choate Bridge, with the Caldwell Building on the left and the Ipswich Female Seminary beyond it.

: County St. sawmill

: County Street bridge

: Little Venice, by the Mill by George Dexter

: High St. shop, still standing

: Goulds Bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Emmanuel Baptist Church was on Loney’s Lane. Photo by George Dexter

: Crane’s landing by George Dexter

: Fire Dept. horse-drawn engines

: Harry Maine’s house by George Dexter

: Hills Dept. store

: Crocker Snow, aviation pioneer

: Caldwell Bldg, home of the Choate Bridge Pub

: “Bayview” by George Dexter

: View from the bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Clam shacks and the wooden Green St. bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: shipwreck at Steep Hill beach

: Robinson’s boatyard, WWII

: Town Hill watchtower, WWII by George Dexter

: Little Neck Hotel

: Library with one wing added

: County St. mill. Late 19th Century photo by Edward Darling

: Goulds Bridge on Labor in Vain

: Dodge house, N. Main St.

: Linebrook and Pineswamp before the Catholic Church

: Lightkeeper’s house

: Market Square, WWII junk collection

: High St. houses that once stood where the High St. bridge is now by George Dexter

: Howard House, Turkey Shore Rd.

: Greek Hotel on the corner of Saltonstall and Market Streets

: Wharf, Samuel Goodhue’s store

: Grape Island

: Elm St and South St. Ipswich Savings Bank

: Brown’s Mills

: Camp in the dunes by George Dexter

: Damon Building and Market St.

: County Rd., Norton house on County Rd. (demolished) by George Dexter

: “Burdock Park” before the Tyler Building was constructed

: Central St., Measures Candy Store

: Charles Kimball house, North Main St.

: Shipwreck at Steep Hill by George Dexter

: Little Neck Store, courtesy of Bill George

: Lords Square lumber truck

: Quint’s Drug Store

: Unknown Victorian house by George Dexter

: Ipswich Mills strike, 1913

: Waldingfield and Bay Rds, 1800’s

: Tricentennial parade

: Daisy Lane Cleaners, in the EBSCO parking lot

: Lords Square Sunoco station became Dunkin Donuts

: Manning School, Central St.

: Sally Choate house where the war memorial is now

: Steep Hill view: Steep Hill Beach with Little Neck in the distance by George Dexter

: Mill Rd. sawmill

: Damon Bldg, second fire

: Tricentennial parade

: First Church congregation, 1920

: High St. bridge, newly constructed

: Ipswich Bluffs pier by George Dexter

: Russell’s Lunch, downtown Ipswich by George Dexter

: High St. mansion, no longer standing

: Memorial Building on Central St. under construction. Photo by George Dexter

: Linebrook School

: National Guard at Cable Hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic

: Visitor Center, still standing

: Georgetown-Ipswich trolley by George Dexter

: Payne School near the South Green

: County St. and the two steeples circa 1860, before the Ascension Church was built. The identify of the building directly behind the Methodist Church is unknown. The former Episcopal parsonage is at that location now.

: Green St. bridge and Howard house

: Shipwreck by George Dexter

: Tricentennial parade

: Hayes Hotel

: North Main St.

: Matthew Perkins house

: Winthrop School

: Corner of Market and Union Streets

: boat launch by George Dexter

: High St. parade in front of the Lord-Baker house

: Power station, Upper High St.

: Water St. Clam shacks, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Shipwreck, the Ada K. Damon

: Woolworths circa 1955

: Open Trolley, summer

: Mill Rd. bridge. Photo by George Dexter

: Upper High St., still standing

: Pier at The Bluffs by George Dexter

: Saint Stanislaus Church on Washington Street

: Water St. Old dock, Arthur Wesley Dow

: The three churches, taken from Turkey Shore

: County Rd., The Columns after a storm

: unnamed woman by George Dexter

: Sacred Heart Church closed

: Market Square

: Mill strike, 1913

: Shanties on Water St., Arthur Wesley Dow

: Green St. Bridge view from Water St.

: Footbridge from South Main to the Mill, circa 1900. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Farmers and chickens by George Dexter

: The ruins of Dr. Manning’s mill at Willowdale

: The Wharf with Newmarch St. in the background, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Asa Lord’s store

: Bay at Agawam Ave. by George Dexter

: The Payne School near the South Green

: Market St. residences

: Ross mansion on High St.

: Payne School buildings at Lords Square

: Denison School at Meeting House Green by George Dexter

: Hammatt St.

: Market Street and Central Street 1894 fire

: Unknown, “The Standish” by George Dexter

: South Side Store

: Schooner at the mouth of the Ipswich River.

: Essex River by George Dexter

: Photo of wharf beside Fred Cronin’s store, about 1935

: Immanuel Baptist Church on Central St.

: Choate Bridge

: Eastern Railroad

: The Green St. Bridge and the Howard House. Photo by George Dexter.

: Unknown by George Dexter

: Cogswell School, Payne St. by George Dexter

: Wreck of the Ada K. Damon

: Just above the dam was Goodhue’s Boathouse, at the end of Peatfield St.

: The Baker house, South Green by George Dexter

: 19th Century mills at the County St. Bridge

: 12 Water St., and dory, Arthur Wesley Dow

: County St. Bridge

: Town Hill view by George Dexter

: Salt marsh hay

: Tricentennial parade

: Whipple House First Period bedroom by George Dexter

: Lathrop Brothers delivering ice

: A band crossing South Main St.. Photo by George Dexter

: The Ice House

: The Ipswich power plant was built as a pumping station for the new reservoir in 1894.

: Rear of Market Street buildings, by Arthur Wesley Dow

: Town Farm

: County St. bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: The Green St. Bridge

: House at Gould’s Creek by George Dexter

: Rowley Town hall by George Dexter. Photo by George Dexter

: Pier 1, upper river by George Dexter

: Warner Bridge, Mill Road

: The Strand Diner preceded the Agawam Diner, which now is on Rt. 1

: unknown house by George Dexter

: Samuel Appleton plaque at Appleton Farms. Photo by George Dexter, early 1900’s.. Photo by George Dexter

: Ipswich Depot and baggage house

: Wharf store

: Hart House by George Dexter

: Parades were longer, and wouund throughout town.

: Town Hill view, snowstorm by George Dexter

: East and Hovey Street intersection by George Dexter

: Market Square at the beginning of World War II

: Ipswich River shuckers by George Dexter

: Coal schooner at Glover’s Wharf

: Little Venice, by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Schooner at Brown’s Wharf

: The Town Wharf circa 1930

: The Howard house on Turkey Shore Rd.

: Tapleyville station, Danvers. Photo by George Dexter

: The Knobbs life saving station on Plum Island around 1900. Photo by George Dexter

: Tricentennial procession to the Congregational Church

: Emma Safford’s house across from Town Hall

: Above the Mill dam. Photo courtesy of Bruce Lord

: Great Cove, view of the jail from Turkey Shore. Photo by George Dexter.

: High Street before it was leveled, by George Dexter

: Salt marsh hay by boat

: Clam boats on Water St. with Glover’s Wharf in the background. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: The Choate Bridge, from the northeast riverbank. Many people remember the building on the right as Bill’s Store.

: Green St. Bridge view from Water St. Photo by George Dexter.

: Ipswich bluffs Hotel

: Water Street clam chacks

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: The Ipswich Mills

: Grape Island by George Dexter

: Water Street from Summer to Green Street was called “Clam Shell Alley.”

: Agawam Ave., just beyond the Wharf

: Fox Creek bridge on Argilla Rd.

: Market St. as it appeared in the late 19th Century

: Pavilion Beach, Helen’s

: Water St.

: unknown street by George Dexter

: Marguery Restaurant

: South Main Carriage House restaurant and Sherborne Wilson house

: Clam shacks, with the earlier wooden Green St. Bridge in the background. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Glover’s wharf and Brown’s Wharf

: Looking back at the Green Street Bridge and the jail from Turkey Shore. Photo by George Dexter.

: View from Little Neck,by George Dexter

: This house on Water St was just past the clam shacks. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Melanson’s boatyard

: Clam boats before the Town Wharf was built, with East Street on the left, and Agawam Ave. in the background. Photo by George Dexter.

: The Green St. Bridge is ahead, with the jail on the left, photo by Edward L. Darling

: Ipswich Jail, 1828 – 1933, with jail keeper’s house

: Turkey Shore boats, Arthur Wesley Dow

: County St. Bridge, photo by George Dexter, before 1900

: International Hotel, Depot Square

: Ross Tavern on South Main St.

: Whipple house fireplace by George Dexter

: Ye Rogers Manse (House of Peace) by George Dexter

: Grape Island houses by George Dexter

: Emma Mitchell Safford

: Town Hill view of the steeples by George Dexter

: Mill strike 1913 by George Dexter

: Looking across to Summer St. from the little park on Turkey Shore. Photo by Edward L. Darling.

: South Main St.

: Olympia Fruit Store by George Dexter

: Earlier pedestrian footbridge at the dam, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Joseph Fowler house, High St. by George Dexter

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: Lydia Dennis tombstone by George Dextere, Old North Burying Ground

: The Tyler building and trolley tracks, circa 1910.

: The Whipple House being moved over the Choate Bridge

: Hammatt St., Harris Oil

: Great Cove view of County St. sawmill

: Grape Island

: Tricentennial parade at Tyler Bldg.

: boatyard by George Dexter

: The Fire station is over 100 years old, still in use.

: Stone mill. Photo by George Dexter

: Rogers Manse. Photo by George Dexter

: Salt Marsh Hay by George Dexter

: Ringbolt rock, boats and wharves

: Methodist Church, Odd Fellows, and Wait house

: Town Hill view of two steeples. Photo by George Dexter

: Marinis farm stand under construction

: South Congregational Church

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: The Strand opera house and theater

: South Church

: Mill Strike

: Near the town wharf, 1930

: Ringbolt rock, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Mineral Street, by George Dexter

: Ipswich Female Seminary

: Washington St. old coal barn along the tracks near Washington St.

: Water st.clam shacks. Photo by George Dexter

: Hammatt St.

: Ipswich River and steeples by George Dexter

: Unknown Victorian room by George Dexter

: Methodist Church by George Dexter

: Lords Square after the store was removed but before Prime

: Unknown Victorian living room. Photo by George Dexter

: The lower wharf before 1870

: The Stone Mill

: two boys by George Dexter

: Tyler’s Department Store

: South Main St.

: Unknown staircase by George Dexter

: Grape Island

: Several generations of Mill Workers

: Lords Square service station at Prime location

: Ipswich town wharf, beside Fred Cronin’s store, 1935

: “The Howes” photo by George Dexter

: Tricentennial parade

: Robinson’s Shipyard on Fox Creek

: Puritan reenactment at Tricentennial

: The wharf, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Spring St and East St., hay scales

: High St. house (maybe) by George Dexter

: Essex Town hall

: Rogers Manse by George Dexter

: Ipswich Bluffs sundial

: Old Town hall

: County St. sawmill

: Hammatt St. billboard and Brown’s coal gas company

: First Church, immediately after the fire

: Hill’s Department Store after fire

: Intersection of East and Cogswell Streets, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Footbridge at the Mill

: South Main St. reunion of Civil War soldiers

: Union St., Hurricane Carol

: Summer St. at Water St.

: Choate bridge by George Dexter

: Castle Neck dunes, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Green St. Bridge and the old Jail by George Dexter

: “This was Brown’s Wharf. William G. Brown dealt in wood, coal, lime, sand and cement.

: The lower part of Ipswich River from the Green Street Bridge.

: Looking across to Turkey Shore, photo by George Dexter.

: Water St. by George Dexter

: Scouts and “Indians”. Photo by George Dexter

: “Little Venice” is the name Arthur Wesley Dow gave to the rear of houses and shops on South Main St.

: Market St. early photo of a parade

: The Carlotta took passengers to Little Neck, Ipswich Bluffs and Grape Island

: 16 Elm St., now at the Smithsonian

: Jail on Green St., demolished in 1937 to build the high school building which is now the Ipswich Town Hall.

: Sam Appleton’s farm house “under the great elm”

: Ipswich churches from a distance, Arthur Wesley Dow

: The Burke Heel factory, Depot Square

: The Hayes Hotel on Depot Square

: The Moses Jewett house, 1800’s by George Dexter

: Measures Candy Store

: Mill strikers, 1913

: Earliest photo of Little Neck

: Ipswich River and the Jail by George Dexter

: Wharf store and pier

: Little Venice by George Dexter

: South Green reenactment of George Washington’s visit on the 300th anniversary

: Relaxing on Turkey Shore

: Richdales store, before

: View of the County Street mills from the Cove at Poplar St. Photo by Edward L. Darling.

: Water Street looking upstream toward the Green st. Bridge. Photo by George Dexter

: Looking back from downriver. Photo by George Dexter.

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: Water St. (Clam Shell Alley) Arthur Wesley Dow

: Pavilion Beach, Poor’s clam shack was at Pavilion Beach before Helen’s Pavilion.

: Little Neck Sea Serpent by George Dexter

: East St. parade, 1950s

: Trolleys at Market Square

: Two girls standing on Ringbolt Rock

: Ipswich River by George Dexter

: Little Neck, circa 1900

: Lords Square looking north on High St.

: Wharf at East and Cogswell, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Jones Block shops

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: the Town Wharf circa 1890, and the masts of a coal schooner unloading in front of Brown’s wharf and warehouse

: Fire station, with early motorized fire vehicles. The house behind it was moved one lot back.

: Ipswich River and boats by George Dexter

: View from Steep Hill: Ipswich River and Plum Island Sound. Little Neck is upper left. Photo by George Dexter

: Hart House by George Dexter

: Waite house. Photo by George Dexter

: Evergreen Cottages, Rt. 1

: Shucking clams on Turkey Shore. Glover’s and Brown’s Wharves are across the River. Photo by George Dexter.

: River View Cash Market, 1935. Photo courtesy of Robert Cronin, who wrote his memories of his father’s store on the Town Wharf.

: Gould’s Bridge by George Dexter

: Damon Bldg (original). fire

: Mineral St., Caleb Lord house by George Dexter

: Clam shacks Water Street, Ipswich

: County St. woolen mill

: North Green 1839, engaving by John Warner Barber

: Jeffreys Neck Rd., cows by George Dexter coming home

: The Choate Bridge. On the right is the building that was Emmie’s Bridal Shop.

: The Depot

: Water St. sketch by Arthur Wesley Dow by George Dexter

: Heading out from the wharf, Ringbolt rock is on the right

: The Carlotta

: Fowler house, High St. by George Dexter

: View of Summer St. from Turkey Shore by George Dexter.

: Clam shacks on Water St. at high tide. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Kings Rook/Stonehenge Club/ Carriage House Restaurant

: Green St. bridge and Howard house

: View from across the River, photo by George Dexter.

: Market St. house and store. Photo by George Dexter

: Clamshell Alley at 12 Water St., Arthur Wesley Dow

: Hapgood’s news on South Main

: South Side Cash Store, still standing

: First Church (view from the rear) by George Dexter

: Glazier-Sweet house on Water St. Photo by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Water St. boats on Ipswich River.

: Summer St. from Hovey’s Wharf by George Dexter

: Rogers Manse. Photo by George Dexter

: Clam shacks on Water St, low tide, by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: Tricentennial parade

: Old Lord house and trolley tracks by George Dexter

: Lords Square fire truck

: Market St., Bailey house, 1936

: S. Main, Currier’s Garage,

: Salt marsh hay by George Dexter

: First period living room by George Dexter

: View of Water Street from the Green Street Bridge

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: Wharf view by George Dexter

: Meeting House Green, buildings still standing

: Grape Island

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