Green St.
MACRIS NWB.R · area form, 1973
Green Street runs from High Street to Merrimac Street, one block north of State Street. The survey says it was laid out four rods wide on 16 May 1781. Claims from landowners near Merrimac Street stopped it short of that street until November 1802, when Moses Brown and others petitioned to open it through, the owners waiving compensation.
The form describes Green Street as a street of formal Federal houses built between 1790 and 1810, several of them later turned into offices or apartments. It traces the owners of individual houses into 1973, including 28, 30, 32, 35–37, 39 and 41 Green Street.
Other buildings on the street include the Church of the Immaculate Conception of 1853 and the Baptist church of 1847, raised to two stories in 1873. The Theophilus Parsons mansion, a convent from 1886, burned in 1943. The Titcomb house, built in 1697 near Merrimac Street, was moved over the Ipswich line when the police station was built. Washington Hall, a dance hall of the early 1800s, gave way in 1917 to the Strand Theatre.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
