57 High Street, the Stone – Rust – Abraham Lummus House (c. 1750)

The 1750 Cape saltbox at 57 High Street was built by Robert Stone and has many original features, including wide pine floors. The separate workshop/barn on the northwest corner is believed to be a former cobbler shop once connected to the house.

The first deed mentioning this house dates to 1807 when Robert Stone sold the house to William Robbins (182:292). Stylistic features, such as vertical feather-edge sheathing, indicate the early construction of the house. William Rust bought the house in 1851, and his heirs occupied the estate into the 20th century. The house was renovated in 1969-70.

57 High Street, the Stone - Rust - Abraham Lummus house (c 1750) — Stone-Rust House

57 High Street, the Stone - Rust - Abraham Lummus house (c 1750) very early photo — This photo was shared in 1958 by Lucy Ardell Kimball, who identified it as the “Abraham Lummus House.” The cobbler shop on the left now stands on the western edge of the lot.

Thomas Franklin Waters wrote in Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, “Isaac Lummus bequeathed the western half of the old Jonathan Lummus homestead to his nephews John and Abraham, sons of William Lummus, approved 1849. Abram Lummus, son of Abraham and other heirs, sold to John C. Low on May 12, 1882, and it is described as still containing eight acres more or less. It was sold by him to John B. Brown and by Mr. Brown to Chester W. Bamford. The house was built, in all probability, during the Lummus ownership. The small piece adjoining the Wallis Rust land was sold by Capt. John Hodgkins to his son John, and sold by Caroline E. Hodgkins to Olive R. Ross, Nov. 5, 1869. John Leander Gaudette and his wife, Ida, lived in this house in the early 1900s.

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