Book List

The Ipswich Room Archives contain an array of books about the history of the Ipswich area. The Library also holds copies for some titles in the circulating collection. Below is a list of some titles we recommend:

Upon the Road Argilla: a Record of the First Quarter Century of a Unique Summer Colony / by Sidney Nichols Shurcliff.
Castle Hill: on the Crane Estate / by Anna Kasabian.
The Water Closet: Ipswich River Watershed and Beyond / by Pike Messenger.
Ipswich: a Celebration of Light, Land, and Sea / photographs by Andrew Borsari.
Three Hundred & Fifty Years of Ipswich History / compiled by Elizabeth H. Newton, Alice Keenan, and Mary P. Conely.
A Walking Tour and Brief History of Early Ipswich, Massachusetts, Founded 1633.
American Town: the History of Ipswich, Massachusetts / by Alan Pearsall.
A History of Little Neck, Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Ipswich Revisited / William M. Varrell for the Ipswich Historical Society.
The House on Ipswich Marsh: Exploring the Natural History of New England / by William Sargent.