Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Meetinghouse Green Historic District encompasses the historic 17th century heart of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The district runs along North Main Street, south from its junction with High Street to the southern end of the Meetinghouse Green. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
Essex County, of which Ipswich is a part, is the location of 461 properties and districts listed on the National Register. Ipswich itself is the location of 31 of these properties and districts. [2] This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 6, 2024. [3]
Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,785 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation , Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island .
Ipswich was from its earliest days an important transit stop, and High Street was the location of its inns for travelers. It was also where courts met when judges rode the circuit . In the 18th century small industrial shops also populated the street, and some of these led to the building of larger textile firms elsewhere.
The John Whipple House is a historic colonial house at 1 South Green in Ipswich, Massachusetts.Built in the seventeenth century, the house has been open to the public as a museum since 1899 and was the subject of some of the earliest attempts at the preservation of colonial houses.
The district boundaries extend from the junction of South Main and Elm Streets, southward past the green to where County Road (Massachusetts Route 1A) crosses Saltonstall's Creek. [2] Ipswich voted to establish the South Green in 1686, after which it was used as a common grazing area, and as a training ground for the local militia.
The House on Labor-in-Vain Road is a historic house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Built about 1720 and enlarged c. 1810, it has a well-preserved assortment of architectural stylistic details predating 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]
The Ross Tavern is a historic building in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now a private residence, the building was moved to its present site from central Ipswich (adjacent to the Choate Bridge) in 1940, and carefully restored to a First Period appearance. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]