This house was built between 1852 and 1854, and first appears in the 1856 Ipswich map.
This lot was originally part of the property next door at the corner of North Main and High Street. The large lot with a house on it was conveyed by Sarah Jane Kent and Nancy Moody Kent to Joseph Wait on July 2, 1847 for $564.00 (384:238). Joseph Wait the conveyed the lot to Richard Dodge, Oct. 6, 1852 (466:257).
On Dec. 14, 1854, Manning Dodge, who owned several lots at this end of North Main Street, sold this house to Richard T. Dodge. For several decades, it was the location of the Dodge and Spiller grocery store.
Sources:
- MACRIS: (formerly #62 N. Main) not researched
- North Main Street image c 1900
- The Agawam manual and directory: a directory of the Agawam district: first part, Ipswich, Rowley, and Hamilton, 1888 – Perley, M. V. B
- Directory of the Town of Ipswich, H. C. Waite, 1896
- Waters, Thomas: Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. 1
- 1832 Ipswich map
- 1856 Ipswich village map
Historic Ipswich 
