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Northshore October 2025
While his castle on the hill was being constructed, Richard T. Crane, Jr., of the famed Crane Plumbing company, spent summers in this “cottage” in Ipswich. This once simple 1840s farmhouse was transformed into a Shingle- style summerhouse for businessman John Burnham Brown in the 1890s when Brown inherited the property. In 1910, Brown sold the house along with more than 2,100 acres of land to Crane. Crane lived in the “cottage” while his house—a 59-room Stuart-style mansion known today as The Crane Estate—was being built up the hill. Over the years the cottage had fallen into disrepair, and there was ta
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