Castle Hill is a 165-acre drumlin surrounded by sea and saltmarsh, and part of the 2,100-acre Crane Estate located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The former summer estate of Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., the estate includes a historic mansion, 21 outbuildings and designed landscapes overlooking Ipswich Bay, on the seacoast off Route 1, north of Boston, Massachusetts. Its name, deriving from a promontory in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, whence many early Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers came, predates the Crane mansion. Castle Hill is now a National Historic Landmark owned by The Trustees of Reservations, a private, non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization, with 96 properties throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mansion near Almelo, The Netherlands A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house for the wealthy. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... ... A map of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ...

Its history dates back as far as December 29, 1634, when a group of Ipswich town selectmen unanimously voted "That the Neck of Land wheareuppon the great Hill standeth, which is known by the name of the Castle Hill, lyeinge on the other side of this River towards the Sea, shall remayne unto the common use of the Towne forever."

In June 1637, John Winthrop, Jr., the town's founder and son of Governor John Winthrop, threatened to leave Ipswich, and Castle Hill was deeded to him as an enticement to stay. In 1644, he deeded Castle Hill to Samuel Symonds, Deputy Governor, who in turn deeded it to his son-in-law, Daniel Epps, in 1660. By 1745, it belonged to the Brown family. After John Burnham Brown died, the property was purchased by Richard Teller Crane, Jr., on January 10, 1910. John Winthrop was the name of several prominent figures in colonial New England. ...

Crane hired the famous Olmsted Brothers, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted (creator of New York's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Boston's Emerald Necklace and others), to design the landscaping. By 1912, they had fashioned a series of ornate terraced gardens, with a magnificent grass mall, 160 feet wide and lined with evergreens cascading from the top of the hill straight down to the water nearly half a mile away. Classical-style statuary flank this "Grande Alleè" at regular intervals. An oppulent "casino" was built at its midpoint, repleat with saltwater swimming pool, bathhouse, guest cabanas and a sizeable indoor ballroom. Two main gardens, the "Italian Garden" and the "Rose Garden," once contained ornate plantings, landscaped walkways, Italianesque fountains. The Olmsted Brothers company was an extremely influential landscape design firm in the United States, formed in 1898 by step-brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. ... Frederick Law Olmsted, oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, the country... A Central Park landscape Central Park ( ) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Prospect Park is A park in Brooklyn, New York In 19th century, when Brooklyn and Manhattan were separate cities; in response of Manhattans Central Park, Brooklynites hires the same architects in order to realize a Prospect Park. ... The Emerald Necklace is a long string of parks in Boston, Massachusetts designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and maintained by the City of Boston and Town of Brookline. ...

Atop Castle Hill, Crane built an Italian Renaissance-style villa, with stucco walls and red tiled roof. Designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston, the edifice was set upon the highest promontory overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. His wife Florence, however, felt that the mansion was cold and drafty, and made her displeasure known. Crane countered by promising that if she would give it ten years, he would replace it if she still insisted. In 1924 the Italianesque mansion was torn down and a new mansion would soon take its place. The idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably since its invention towards the end of the Roman Republic. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Designed by architect David Adler of Chicago, the new fifty-nine-room mansion included a main facade designed in the 17th-century Stuart style, a library with Grinling Gibbons carvings imported from an English country house, parquet flooring, and paneled interior rooms from an 18th-century London townhouse. Completed in 1928, this spledid mansion still stands, and the Olmsted Brothers' landscaping also remains largely unchanged. A pair of immense seated griffin statues by renowned sculptor Paul Manship grace the entrance to the north terrance overlooking the sea. These were a gift from employees of Crane Co. to Mr. Crane in 1928, upon completion of his new home. R.T. Crane Jr. was president of Crane Co. of Chicago, which he inherited from his father, Richard Teller Crane, who founded the company in 1855. Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area    - City 606. ... Stuart is a semi-common surname and male first name. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Leinster House Henrietta Street Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in some other countries, a townhouse (or a house in town) was a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. ... Composite of Pomeranian heraldic charges of griffins. ...

"Upon the summit Mr. Crane has erected his splendid summer home, with a beautiful sunken garden, rose garden, lawns and terraces, commanding a marvellous view of land and sea, of Agamenticus and Boar's Head and the low-lying Isles of Shoals on the distant horizon, Bar Island and the long bar with its many lines of white breakers, sand dunes and the level beach near at hand. Mr. Crane has purchased as well, Wigwam Hill and the great tract of picturesque dunes, the old Castle Neck, with the exception of the small tract owned by the United States, on which the light house was built in 1837. He has acquired also the Sagamore Hill farm." (Thomas Franklin Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Vol. 2, 1917.) The Mount Agamenticus region covers nearly 30,000 acres (121 km²) in the southern Maine towns of Eliot, Ogunquit, South Berwick, Wells, and York. ... Celia Thaxters Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890, by Childe Hassam The Isles of Shoals are a group of nine small islands situated approximately 16 km (10 miles) off the east coast of the USA, straddling the border of the states of New Hampshire and Maine. ... Bar island (, ) is a tidal island in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. The Bar, a muddy stretch of land, connects Bar Island to Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. ...

After the death of Richard Crane, the estate passed to his wife Florence. In 1945, the Crane family donated much of their private beach and dunes to the Trustees of Reservations. When Florence Crane died in 1949, the rest of the property, including the mansion, was given to The Trustees, who maintain the property to this day. The property, a National Historic Landmark since 1998, offers tours of the historic mansion seasonally.

The property was used as a forum for outdoor concerts in the late fifties and early sixties, featuring such jazz legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dave Brubeck, and as part of a Castle Hill Art Center and music camp run by the New England Conservatory. Laid out just above the casino and pool, the stage faced the "Great House" so that audiences could sit on the splendid lawn of the Grande Alleè, facing the ocean. The Trustees still offers a number of public programs throughout the year, including outdoor picnic concerts on the allee, a 4th of July celebration, and Christmas events. All part of the Crane Estate, Castle Hill's once-private beaches are now open to the public as Crane Beach, also owned by The Trustees of Reservations. Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901[1] – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nickname Satchmo, for satchel-mouth and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was an American singer, considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century, alongside Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. ... Brubeck in 1954 David Warren (Dave) Brubeck (born December 6, 1920 in Concord, California) is an American jazz pianist who has written a number of jazz standards, including In Your Own Sweet Way and The Duke. ...