The following are resources for determining the history of homes in the North Shore area of Massachusetts. See additional links at specific town pages on this site.
Property records
- MACRIS, MHC through the Ipswich Historical Commission
- Patriot Properties
- Vision Government Solutions
- Salem Deeds
- Town Reports
- Patriot Properties
- Ward Maps
History
- The Essex antiquarian
- A General History of New England; Hubbard, 1818
- Historical Collections of the Essex Institute – Index Volumes 1-60
- New England Historical and Genealogical Register
- History of Essex County by Duane Hamilton Hurd, 1885
- Standard History of Essex County Massachusetts by Cyrus Mason Tracy
- Municipal History of Essex County, Massachusetts
- Public Library archives
- Town histories at Archive.org
Architectural books and guides
- A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia Savage McAlester
- American Houses, a Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home, by Gerald Foster
- Antique Houses, their Construction and Restoration by Edward P. Friedland
- Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
by Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 - First Period houses in Eastern Massachusetts
- The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
- Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic
- Architecture in Colonial Massachusetts
- The Colonial Architecture of Salem by Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley
- Colonial Architecture, by Frank Cousins
- Early American Houses: The Seventeenth Century by Norman Morrison Isham
- A Building History of Northern New England By James L. Garvin
- Historic American Timber Joinery: A Graphic Guide| 2004-08
- Cottage residences, or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds: adapted to North America by Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), published 1842.
- The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating. by Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852; Publication date 1851
- Rumford Fireplaces (1790-1850)
- How to date a house, by David M. Hart, 1982
- Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism, and the Remaking of Memory by James M. Lindgren
- Saugus Ironmaster house
Genealogical resources
- A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
- The Probate Records of Essex County (Haiti Trust)
- Volume I 1634-1664
- Volume II 1665-1674
- Volume III 1675-1681
- Vital Records to 1850
- The Hammatt Papers
17th & 18th Century houses of Essex County, Massachusetts 