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Castle Hill is a 56,881 sq ft (5,284.4 m 2) mansion in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which was completed in 1928 as a summer home for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Teller Crane, Jr. It is also the name of the 165-acre (67 ha) drumlin surrounded by sea and salt marsh that the home was built atop.
In 1910, Richard T. Crane Jr. of Chicago, the business magnate owner of Crane Plumbing, bought Castle Hill, a drumlin on Ipswich Bay. He hired Olmsted Brothers , successors to Frederick Law Olmsted , to landscape his 3,500-acre (14 km 2 ) estate, and engaged the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge to design an Italian ...
English: Great House - Castle Hill on the Crane Estate - Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA. Built in 1928; architect David Adler. Date: ... Castle Hill (Massachusetts)
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Crane Beach was established in 1945 as a gift from Florence Higinbotham Crane, daughter-in-law of Richard T. Crane, and her family. The property is a part of the larger Crane Estate, along with Castle Hill and the Crane Wildlife Refuge, and is owned and maintained by The Trustees of Reservations.
Castle Hill: a stately mansion and estate of 21 outbuildings situated in Ipswich, Massachusetts north of Boston; the summer residence of Richard T. Crane Jr. Elephant House: the house of Edward Gorey, artist, writer, illustrator, playwright, and puppeteer