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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 .
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]
The Shoreborne Wilson House is a historic colonial house at 4 South Main Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built between 1685 and 1692 by Shoreborne Wilson, a cooper. It has a basic four-room center chimney plan, of which Wilson built the northwest section.
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 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 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.
Choate-Caldwell House (also known as the Within These Walls exhibit) is a historic eighteenth-century New England colonial house (c. 1710/1760) that was originally located 16 Elm Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Hart House is a historic First Period colonial house at 51 Linebrook Road in Ipswich, Massachusetts. A dendrochronology survey in 2007 proved that the earliest portion of the "Hart" house dates to 1680 when it was built by a newly married Samuel Hart, a tanner. For many years it was thought to date to 1640 as the home of his father, Thomas Hart ...