Ingersoll's Ordinary aka the Ingersoll House was built by deacon Nathaniel Ingersoll sometime in 1670 as an ordinary (tavern).[1][2] The residence is best known for the role it played during the Salem witch trials, as the accused were exterminated here by Magistrate Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne.[3] Ingersoll owned the residence until his death in 1719.[3] Extensive repairs which included modernization were made on the house in 1753, and it continued to be operated as a tavern into the 1800s.[3][4] It was later purchased for a parsonage in 1832, and remained owned by the First Church of Danvers until 1968.[4] Ingersoll's Ordinary is now privately owned with its earliest sections still intact.[1]
John Kendrick House
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Ipswich
c.1670
It is thought that John Kendrick built this house sometime in 1670 based on surviving stylistic evidence. Features on the exterior of the house largely date to a later time period, though many 17th-century elements remain within. These include "rare fragments of a three part casement window frame in the southern gable", original rear rafters in the roof, and remnants in the chimney stack of a pilaster. 18th-century interior elements are found in the main rooms of the lean-to, and include corner fireplaces with "fine mid-century woodwork", and an "excellent" corner cupboard.[5][6]
