The Haven Gould House

 Cataloging Photographs

The New Ipswich Historical Society has purchased a software product called Past Perfect for contact and collection management. Our volunteers have been busy and I have been cataloging photographs. One of the properties was of interest to a member of my men's group and I thought I was share a photo and the write-up in the New Ipswich Historic District Registry.

Center Village Historic District #79

Built by carpenter Martin Haven, this house was for many years the residence of a succession of carpenters .who worked in the shop diagonally across the street, now known as the Julia Chickering House (#76). 

Haven was followed by Peter Cloyes and then John Gould, Sr. and John Gould, Jr. (17.93-1840), who was a respected cabinetmaker who employed the young Jonas Chickering in his cabinetmaking business before Chickering left for Boston and his subsequent career as founder of the Chickering Piano Company. 

By 1850 the house was owned by Seth Newhall, who remained here for about 20 years. The house was later purchased by George N. Lowe, who married Julia Ann Chickering, a niece of Jonas Chickering. Lowe came to New Ipswich in 1849 and became a cigar maker. 

His daughter, Caroline Lowe, a teacher in the Newton, Massachusetts schools, used the house as a summer residence until her death in 1961. She was responsible for bringing many of her Newton colleagues to New Ipswich as summer residents. #79 on New Ipswich Historic District Registry