Castle Hill (Ipswich)
A 1920s Georgian Revival estate and National Historic Landmark, with landscaped grounds and Olmsted-designed gardens—prime study in large-scale masonry, historic country house architecture.
Phone: (978) 356‑4351
Official siteJeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead)
Built 1768, one of the finest late-Georgian homes in America, featuring scored wood siding imitating stone façade—a masterpiece of colonial craftsmanship and preservation.
Phone: (781) 631‑1770
Official siteMarblehead Light
An 1895 skeletal cast-iron lighthouse, unique in New England—stands atop earlier brick tower. Major structural conservation and lighting restoration ahead.
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Registry InfoOld Burial Hill (Marblehead)
Founded 1638, Puritan-era cemetery with carved grave markers and Revolutionary War burials—including Witch Trial victims: a preservation-grade landscape site.
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Official InfoJohn Ward House (Salem)
1684 First Period structure restored early 20th C—an early example of America's restoration movement, with preserved timber framing and traditional carpentry.
Phone: (978) 745‑9500
Official siteGardner–Pingree House (Salem)
Built 1804 by Samuel McIntire, Federal-style mansion famous for its symmetrical design, carved woodwork, and connection to an 1830 murder trial that influenced American law.
Phone: (978) 745‑9500
Official InfoSalem Maritime National Historic Site
A National Park Service unit preserving 18th–19th C maritime structures, wharves, and warehouses—an exemplar of waterfront heritage and conservation.
Phone: (978) 740‑1650
Official siteSaugus Iron Works National Historic Site
America’s first integrated ironworks (1646–1670), reconstructed working site—exemplifies early industrial archaeology and conservation of colonial industrial architecture.
Phone: (781) 233‑0050
Official siteMcIntire Historic District (Salem)
Over 300 Georgian and Federal-period homes designed or inspired by Samuel McIntire—a neighborhood-scale case for historic district conservation.
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Registry InfoWhipple House (Ipswich)
One of America's oldest continuously occupied houses (ca. 1660), First Period timber-frame structure—highly intact for preservation study.
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Official InfoParker Tavern (Reading)
1780s Georgian-style inn-turned-museum—preserved original structure, fine for facade restoration and material continuity.
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Registry InfoAnnisquam Harbor Light Station (Gloucester)
Built 1801 (tower rebuilt 1897), classic New England brick lighthouse—example of coastal structure preservation and adaptive modernization.
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Registry InfoPeabody Essex Museum (Salem)
Established in 1799, one of the oldest continuously operating museums—architectural ensemble includes Georgian, Federal, and 20th‑C expansions, ideal for mixed-use preservation.
Phone: (978) 745‑9500
Official siteEssex Shipbuilding Museum (Essex)
Museum housed in a 19th‑Century shipyard building—focuses on wooden ship construction and structural conservation practices.
Phone: (978) 768‑7545
Official InfoTristram Coffin House (Newbury)
1678 First Period house—dendrochronology confirms age. This fully preserved colonial structure is central to early-American conservation studies.
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Registry InfoBorder to Boston Trail
A rail‑trail spanning multiple towns—adaptive reuse of infrastructure, integrates early rail corridor landscape with trail conservation.
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Essex Heritage infoBakers Island Light Station (off Salem)
Accessible only by boat, this 1820 lighthouse and keeper’s house restored by Essex Heritage—stone and brick conservation project of island maritime vernacular.
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Official siteEssex Coastal Scenic Byway
A 90-mile architectural tour along the coast featuring historic homes, lighthouses, memorials, and civic buildings—ideal for regional preservation planning.
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Registry InfoRevolutionary War Memorials (various towns)
Essex County is home to dozens of Revolutionary War monuments, markers, and memorials—site-specific stone conservation and interpretive landscape features.
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Catalog of markersLawrence Heritage State Park
A post‑industrial canal-side park preserving mill architecture and urban waterworks—a case study in industrial adaptive reuse and landscape restoration.
Phone: (978) 794‑1655
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