This house appears to be one of the oldest on Mount Pleasant Avenue, but its early history is uncertain. Exterior structural details, including the roof ridge and pitch, and an unbalanced facade, suggest that it may have originally been a half-house that was extended and may have been moved to this location in 1874 and placed on the present brick foundation. The 1872 Ipswich map shows no house at this location and the 1884 map shows only a house directly across from the church owned by Mary Nugent, who had purchased the lot from descendants of an undetermined owner.
The 1893 Ipswich Birdseye Map shows this as the last house on Mount Pleasant Avenue, with the rest of the hillside as undeveloped farmland. Further research may reveal some historic elements in the framing, but the interior of the building has been modernised.
The short-lived Brown Stocking Mill Company owned the property by 1910. By 1916, the house was occupied by Cyprian Doiron, a laborer, and Edith Bernard, a mill operative. By 1924, the house was occupied by Joseph and Marion Boucher and Octave and Josephine Gallant. Both Boucher and Gallant were carpenters.
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- Christine Beard, writing for the Ipswich Historical Commission, 1990 (MACRIS)
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