The Trustees

- The Trustees care for 118 special places - nearly 26,000 acres - all around Massachusetts

- Beautiful reservations and historic properties connect thousands of visitors with the natural, historical, and cultural treasures across Massachusetts

- Castle Hill, along with other Trustees properties, is one of the stunning locations featured in the acclaimed film Little Women (2019)

Set against the sapphire backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, Castle Hill on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is today a National Historic Landmark and the only known designed landscape of its size and kind still in existence in North America. This beautifully illustrated and practical guide provides the history and context of the stunning country estate of plumbing magnate Richard T. Crane, Jr. and his family, which draws many thousands of visitors each year. It includes the house designed by architect David Adler in 1928, with period furnishings, and marvelous natural landscapes and extensive gardens designed by some of the century's most notable landscape architects such as Arthur Shurcliff and the Olmsted Brothers.