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.

: Arthur Wesley Dow’s art school

: Asa Lord’s store at Lords Square

: Benjamin Ellsworth and the Ipswich lighthouse by George Dexter

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

: The Agawam Hotel. Photo by George Dexter

: Early aerial view of Ipswich

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

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

: Baseball players, 1894 at what is now Bialek Park

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

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

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

: Bella Vista, Little Neck by George Dexter

: Agawam Inn before porches. Photo by George Dexter

: Central Street fire of 1894

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

: Ipswich Mills water-powered machinery

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

: First Church when it was red

: Central St. Armistice Day parade

: The jail

: Asa Lord’s store

: Lighthouse and keepers house by George Dexter

: The Dustbane factory by George Dexter

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

: Burnham’s Store where Dunkin Donuts is now

: Firemen at parade

: Elm St and South St. Ipswich Savings Bank

: Lords Square looking north on High St.

: Dr. Manning’s windmill where the Pub is now

: Castle Neck dunes, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Daniels shoe shop on Summer St.

: Grape Island, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Denison School, Meeting House Green

: High St. house still standing

: Essex Bay from the Bluffs by George Dexter

: Giles Firmin park by George Dexter

: Grape Island

: Lathrop bros. Ice house

: Grape Island or Ipswich Bluffs

: 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.

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

: Camp in the dunes by George Dexter

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

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

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

: Damon Building and Market St.

: The Mill Rd. bridge

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

: Intersection of East and Cogswell Streets, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: Choate bridge by George Dexter

: Choate Bridge

: The Baker house, South Green by George Dexter

: Asa Lord’s store

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

: The Burke Heel factory, Depot Square

: Ipswich churches from a distance, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: County St. sawmill

: Ipswich Depot and baggage house

: Ipswich bluffs Hotel

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

: Cogswell School, Payne St. by George Dexter

: County St. bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Hammatt St.

: Fox Creek bridge on Argilla Rd.

: Castle Neck dunes, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Lords Square Prime station, when it was Esso

: Hammatt St. parking lot construction

: Choate Bridge

: Central Street by George Dexter

: Ipswich River and the Jail by George Dexter

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: Unknown girl by George Dexter

: Isinglass Mill, Ipswich MA

: Central St. parade, students from Shatswell School

: Green St. bridge and jail by George Dexter

: Hart House by George Dexter

: Mill Rd. bridge

: Baseball, 1925

: Market Square, photo by George Dexter

: East St. house, after storm

: Burley School

: Ipswich River by George Dexter

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

: High Street before the first bridge was built

: Central St.

: Clam photo hoax by George Dexter

: Damon Block (2nd) at Depot Squrare

: Dodge house on N. Main St.

: Brown’s Mills

: Ipswich Jail

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

: Green St. bridge and Howard house

: “Burdock Park” before the Tyler Building was constructed

: Farmhouse and the First Church Steeple, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: Harold Bowen’s house, still standing

: County St. sawmill

: Market St.

: Damon Bldg, second fire

: Glover’s Wharf

: “Bayview” by George Dexter

: Little Venice, by the Mill by George Dexter

: Fire pumper

: County Street bridge

: Central St., Measures Candy Store

: Dodge house, N. Main St.

: Daniel Hovey house

: Georgetown-Ipswich trolley by George Dexter

: Fire Dept. horse-drawn engines

: Sally’s Pond, originally “Centennial Pond”

: Caldwell Bldg, home of the Choate Bridge Pub

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

: Crane’s landing by George Dexter

: Little Neck Hotel

: Clam certificate, photo by George Dexter

: Charles Kimball house, North Main St.

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

: Goulds Bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Hills Dept. store

: High St. shop, still standing

: Library with one wing added

: Currier’s Garage, S. Main. St.

: Crocker Snow, aviation pioneer

: Goulds Bridge on Labor in Vain

: Market Square, WWII junk collection

: Lords Square, early hand-pulled fire truck

: Greek Hotel on the corner of Saltonstall and Market Streets

: Little Neck Store, courtesy of Bill George

: Lightkeeper’s house

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

: Quint’s Drug Store

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

: View from the pedestrian bridge, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Howard House, Turkey Shore Rd.

: Harry Maine’s house by George Dexter

: Daisy Lane Clearners, in the EBSCO parking lot

: Unknown Victorian house by George Dexter

: Linebrook and Pineswamp before the Catholic Church

: Lords Square Sunoco station became Dunkin Donuts

: shipwreck at Steep Hill beach

: Robinson’s boatyard, WWII

: Manning School, Central St.

: Lords Square lumber truck

: Wharf, Samuel Goodhue’s store

: Town Hill watchtower, WWII by George Dexter

: Corner of Market and Union Streets

: Shipwreck at Steep Hill by George Dexter

: Sally Choate house where the war memorial is now

: Ipswich Mills strike, 1913

: High St. bridge, newly constructed

: Waldingfield and Bay Rds, 1800’s

: Open Trolley, summer

: unnamed woman by George Dexter

: Shipwreck by George Dexter

: Green St. Bridge view from Water St.

: Mill Rd. sawmill

: First Church congregation, 1920

: boat launch by George Dexter

: Shipwreck, the Ada K. Damon

: Linebrook School

: Tricentennial parade

: Tricentennial parade

: Visitor Center, still standing

: Mill strike, 1913

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

: Tricentennial parade

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

: Winthrop School

: National Guard at Cable Hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic

: Water St. Clam shacks, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

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

: Pier at The Bluffs by George Dexter

: Tricentennial parade

: Hart House by George Dexter

: High St. mansion, no longer standing

: Mill Rd. bridge. Photo by George Dexter

: Woolworths circa 1955

: Market Square at the beginning of World War II

: House at Gould’s Creek by George Dexter

: Upper High St., still standing

: Denison School at Meeting House Green by George Dexter

: Payne School near the South Green

: Ipswich Bluffs pier by George Dexter

: Farmers and chickens by George Dexter

: Market Street and Central Street 1894 fire

: East S. Matthew Perkins house

: Hayes Hotel

: County Rd., The Columns after a storm

: Russell’s Lunch, downtown Ipswich by George Dexter

: Shanties on Water St., Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: International Hotel, Depot Square

: Sacred Heart Church closed

: Power station, Upper High St.

: The Payne School near the South Green

: Bay at Agawam Ave. by George Dexter

: Saint Stanislaus Church on Washington Street

: Market St. residences

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

: Ross mansion on High St.

: Plum Island Life Saving Station by George Dexter

: Schooner at Brown’s Wharf

: North Main St.

: Above the Mill dam. Photo courtesy of Bruce Lord

: Water St. Old dock, Arthur Wesley Dow

: The Green St. Bridge

: Little Venice, by Arthur Wesley Dow.

: 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.

: Town Hill view of the steeples by George Dexter

: Payne School buildings at Lords Square

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

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

: Unknown by George Dexter

: Market Square

: South Side Store

: unknown house by George Dexter

: Warner Bridge, Mill Road

: Marguery Restaurant

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: The three churches, taken from Turkey Shore

: Meeting House Green, buildings still standing

: Manning’s mill at Willowdale

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

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

: Water Street clam chacks

: The Ice House

: 19th Century mills at the County St. Bridge

: Town Farm

: Town Hill view, snowstorm by George Dexter

: Immanuel Baptist Church on Central St.

: Sam Appleton’s farm house

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

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

: Essex River by George Dexter

: Ipswich power plant by George Dexter

: Lathrop Brothers delivering ice

: Little Neck Sea Serpent by George Dexter

: Puritan reenactment at Tricentennial

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

: Parades were longer, and wouund throughout town.

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

: Salt marsh hay

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

: South Side Cash Store, still standing

: Town Hill view by George Dexter

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

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

: Looking back from downriver. Photo by George Dexter.

: The Ipswich Mills

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

: County St. Bridge

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

: Water St.

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

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

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: Earliest photo of Little Neck

: Rear of Market Street buildings, by Arthur Wesley Dow

: Market St., Bailey house, 1936

: The Carlotta

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

: Rogers Manse. Photo by George Dexter

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

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

: Salt marsh hay by George Dexter

: The Howard house on Turkey Shore Rd.

: 16 Elm St., now at the Smithsonian

: Coal schooner at Glover’s Wharf

: Water St. by George Dexter

: Unknown, “The Standish” by George Dexter

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

: Summer St. at Water St.

: Ipswich Bluffs sundial

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

: High St. house (maybe) by George Dexter

: Emma Mitchell Safford

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

: Kings Rook/Stonehenge Club/ Carriage House Restaurant

: S. Main, Currier’s Garage,

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: The Hayes Hotel on Depot Square

: Essex Town hall

: Lords Square looking north on High St.

: Several generations of Mill Workers

: Little Venice by George Dexter

: Ipswich River and boats by George Dexter

: Waite house. Photo by George Dexter

: Hill’s Department Store after fire

: South Main St. reunion of Civil War soldiers

: East and Hovey Street intersection by George Dexter

: East St. parade, 1950’s

: Old Town hall

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

: Spring St and East St., hay scales

: First Church, immediately after the fire

: Eastern Railroad

: High Street before it was leveled, by George Dexter

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

: North Green 1839, engaving by John Warner Barber

: Marinis farm stand under construction

: Ipswich River and steeples by George Dexter

: Ipswich Female Seminary

: South Congregational Church

: South Church

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

: Stone mill. Photo by George Dexter

: Lords Square after the store was removed but before Prime

: County St. woolen mill

: Tricentennial parade at Tyler Bldg.

: “The Howes” photo by George Dexter

: Earlier pedestrian footbridge at the dam, Arthur Wesley Dow

: two boys by George Dexter

: Olympia Fruit Store by George Dexter

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

: The Stone Mill

: Great Cove view of County St. sawmill

: Unknown staircase by George Dexter

: Gould’s Bridge by George Dexter

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

: Scouts and “Indians”. Photo by George Dexter

: Mill strikers, 1913

: Glover’s wharf and Brown’s Wharf

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

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

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

: Relaxing on Turkey Shore

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

: Near the town wharf, 1930

: Rogers Manse by George Dexter

: Robinson’s Shipyard on Fox Creek

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

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

: Agawam Ave., just beyond the Wharf

: The Town Wharf circa 1930

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

: Little Neck, circa 1900

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

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

: Schooner at the mouth of the Ipswich River.

: Hart House by George Dexter

: Two girls standing on Ringbolt Rock

: Tapleyville station, Danvers. Photo by George Dexter

: Damon Bldg (original). fire

: The lower wharf before 1870

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: Ringbolt rock, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: unknown First period living room by George Dexter

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

: Grape Island by George Dexter

: Old Lord house and trolley tracks by George Dexter

: Tricentennial parade

: Wharf store

: Salt marsh hay by boat

: Footbridge at the Mill

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

: Jones Block shops

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

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

: Joseph Fowler house, High St. by George Dexter

: The Tyler building and trolley tracks, circa 1910.

: The Strand opera house and theater

: Lords Square fire truck

: Wharf store and pier

: South Main St.

: Tricentennial parade

: Methodist Church, Odd Fellows, and Wait house

: Mill Strike

: Ipswich River by George Dexter

: boatyard by George Dexter

: Water st.clam shacks. Photo by George Dexter

: The wharf, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Lords Square service station at Prime location

: Grape Island

: South Main St.

: Grape Island

: Ipswich River shuckers by George Dexter

: Whipple house fireplace by George Dexter

: The Depot

: unknown street by George Dexter

: View from Little Neck,by George Dexter

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

: Union St., Hurricane Carol

: Hammatt St., Harris Oil

: Unknown house by George Dexter

: Unknown Victorian room by George Dexter

: Mineral Street, by George Dexter

: Methodist Church by George Dexter

: Evergreen Cottages, Rt. 1

: Emma Safford’s house across from Town Hall

: Water St. boats on Ipswich River.

: Unknown Victorian living room. Photo by George Dexter

: Turkey Shore boats, Arthur Wesley Dow

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

: Grape Island houses by George Dexter

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

: South Main Carriage House restaurant and Sherborne Wilson house

: Grape Island

: Rogers Manse. Photo by George Dexter

: Hapgood’s news on South Main

: Mineral St., Caleb Lord house by George Dexter

: Salt Marsh Hay by George Dexter

: Richdales store, before

: Trolleys at Market Square

: Hammatt St.

: Little Neck by George Dexter

: Tyler’s Department Store

: Ross Tavern on South Main St.

: Fowler house, High St. by George Dexter

: Measures Candy Store

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

: Tricentennial parade

: The Whipple House being moved over the Choate Bridge

: Green St. bridge and Howard house

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

: Wharf at East and Cogswell, Arthur Wesley Dow

: Pier 1, upper river by George Dexter

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

: Whipple House First Period bedroom by George Dexter

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

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

: Wreck of the Ada K. Damon

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

: Ringbolt rock, boats and wharves

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

: Clam shacks Water Street, Ipswich

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

: Market St. early photo of a parade

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

: View of Water Street from the Green Street Bridge

: Wharf view by George Dexter

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

: Melanson’s boatyard

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

: Mill strike 1913 by George Dexter

: Pavilion Beach, Helen’s

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