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October 2014 nshoremag.com 99 W Fresh Take Carpenter & MacNeille revamps this North Shore Grande Dame—The Inn at Castle Hill. By Nancy E. Berry Welcoming Surroundings The sitting room was decorated with new fabrics and furnishings. hile his castle on the hill was being constructed, Richard T. Crane, Jr., of the famed Crane Plumbing company, spent summers in this "cottage" in Ipswich. This once simple 1840s farm- house was transformed into a Shingle- style summerhouse for businessman John Burnham Brown in the 1890s when Brown inherited the property. In 1910, Brown sold the house along with more than 2,100 acres of land to Crane. Crane lived in the "cot- tage" while his house—a 59-room Stuart- style mansion known today as The Crane Estate—was being built up the hill. Over the years the cottage had fallen into disrepair, and there was talk of tearing it down back in the 1990s. The Trustees of Reservations were opposed to this ac- tion. And, luckily, in 1998 the organization received a generous donation to restore the