The Ipswich Assessors’ site gives a date of 1860 for this house. No house appears in the 1832 or 1856 maps. Webster Smith purchased this lot on Mineral Street in September 1861 from Daniel Rutherford for $200.00 (Salem Deeds 627:261). The 1872 Ipswich map and the 1884 map show a house at this location owned by “W. Smith.” Webster Smith was a blacksmith who served the town in several capacities as a Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor in the 1887 Ipswich Town Report.
In the 1910 map, the owner was Webster Smith’s son, J. Albert Smith. In 1915, J. Albert Smith of Dover, NH, as the heir of Webster Smith, sold a lot from the property for $400 (Salem Deeds 2287:247) and the following year sold this lot with the house on it to Carrie and Arthur Damon for $1.00 (Salem Deeds 2346: 278).
The present house is clearly shown in the 1893 Ipswich Birdseye map.
Historic Ipswich 