{"nrhp_refnum":"80000459","name":"Brown's Manor","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ipswich","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.688880563000055,"lon":-70.84905965699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Second Empire house at 115 High Street (also referenced as 109 High Street) in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, built about 1886 for the Brown family and now used as apartments.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the most imposing Second Empire buildings in Ipswich and the only one built of brick. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship and reflects Ipswich's late 19th-century development. It was built by the Brown family, brickmakers, lumbermen and housewrights known for fine buildings in Essex County.","narrative":"Brown's Manor is a two-story brick house on High Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts, built around 1886 in the Second Empire style. It has wood and brownstone trim, a slate-covered mansard roof, a symmetrical four-bay facade, quoins and a bracketed cornice. The center entry has a round-headed double-leaf door under a well-detailed porch. The lot was part of a thirty-acre parcel sold to George A. Brown by Abraham Lord on November 6, 1886, and the house is believed to have been built soon afterward. The Brown family worked as brickmakers, lumbermen and housewrights and were known for some of the finest buildings in Essex County; this house, built for themselves, shows their skills. It was listed as one of the most imposing Second Empire buildings in Ipswich and the only one built of brick, and it retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship. The house is now divided into apartments.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Brown family (brickmakers, lumbermen and housewrights); built for George A. Brown","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as apartments; a later rehabilitation review (1988) described it as a 2 1/2-story brick house on about one acre, with apartments before and after rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.296894-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7901/63790114/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000459.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000459/93bfc4b001-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000459/93bfc4b001-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Browns_Manor,_Ipswich_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Browns_Manor,_Ipswich_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790114","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s_Manor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4975952"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/browns-manor-80000459/"}