Howe Barn

The Howe Barn is a historic barn, that has been converted into a house, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States, at 421 Linebrook Road (403 before the street was renumbered). It is important as one of a small number of surviving First Period barn frames in Essex County. Family tradition places the construction of the barn to c. 1711 by Abraham Howe, an early settler of the Linebrook Road area. Elements of the frame, which are still visible in the attic and some areas left exposed during the 1948 conversion to a house, bear some resemblance to a similar period barn at the Stanley Lake House in nearby Topsfield.[2]

Howe Barn
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Ipswich, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°40′38″N 70°56′7″W
Built	1853
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Colonial
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000230[1]
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Ipswich, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "NRHP nomination for Abraham Howe Barn". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-02.