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The Trustees continue to offer a number of public programs throughout the year, including outdoor picnic concerts on the Allée, and Christmas events. All part of the Crane Estate, Castle Hill's once-private beaches are now open to the public as Crane Beach. Since 1996, The Trustees have hosted outdoor picnic concerts each week in the summer.
Crane Beach is a 1,234-acre (4.99 km 2) conservation and recreation property located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, immediately north of Cape Ann. It consists of a four-mile-long (6 km) sandy beachfront, dunes , and a maritime pitch pine forest.
The Crane Wildlife Refuge, located in Ipswich and Essex, Massachusetts, is a 674-acre (2.73 km 2) property managed by The Trustees of Reservations. The refuge contains Long Island, Choate Island, and small areas of the Great Marsh. Located nearby are Castle Hill and Crane Beach, other properties managed by the
The following is a list of properties managed by The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR), a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization dedicated to preserving natural and historical places in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Built in 1899, the stone Gothic Revival structure is the rural community's finest example of late 19th-century architecture. It was built as a gift of George Crane, and was built next to his estate, Bucksteep Manor. The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [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]
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 ...
On 26 December 1909, Ada K. Damon′s anchor chain broke, setting her adrift, and she ran aground on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts. [12] [13] Her five crew members survived. [14] The United States Life-Saving Service offered to assist in salvaging the ship, but her master, Captain A.K. Brewster, declined, as he wished to sell the ship ...