Brown's Manor

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Brown's Manor
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Brown's Manor
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Location Ipswich, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°41′20″N70°50′58″W / 42.68889°N 70.84944°W / 42.68889; -70.84944 Coordinates: 42°41′20″N70°50′58″W / 42.68889°N 70.84944°W / 42.68889; -70.84944
Arealess than one acre
Built1886
Architectural styleSecond Empire
MPS Central Village, Ipswich, Massachusetts MRA
NRHP reference No. 80000459 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1980

Brown's Manor is a historic house at 115 High Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story Second Empire structure, with brick walls decorated with wooden trim, and a mansard roof pierced by segmented-arch dormers. The building corners have white-painted wood quoining, and the front entrance, set in a round-arch opening, is sheltered by a porch supported by grouped paneled columns. The house was built about 1886, probably by George Brown, who purchased the property that year. Brown was from a family known locally for its house-building skills. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Brown's Manor". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-07-20.