Beverly, Mass.: The Hottest Zip Code in America and Wares Made at the Charles A. Lawrence Pottery

Over the last week, I have noticed that Beverly, Massachusetts has been named on a number of national social media posts (Yahoo News, Realitor.com, etc.) as being the hottest zip code in America right now for real estate. I noticed this morning that this news was also posted in an article published on August 5, 2025 by the New York Post, titled, This coastal gem is America’s hottest ZIP code: https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/real-estate/this-coastal-gem-is-americas-hottests-zip-code/.

New York Post Article About Beverly, Mass.

Link: https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/real-estate/this-coastal-gem-is-americas-hottests-zip-code/

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However, Beverly was also home to one of New England's most significant red earthenware and ancient style art pottery factories during the circa 1860s to early 1900s period, which was a business established by Charles Albert Solares Lawrence (1829-1904), whose father had migrated to America in the early 1800s from Portugal, arriving in the Beverly and Danvers area. Examples of Beverly pottery are owned by a number of museums today, including Historic Beverly, as well as the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Peabody, Massachusetts Historical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, among others: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/4584.

The most recent example of Beverly pottery to sell at auction is perhaps a slip decorated pitcher that sold last month at Heckler's Auction in Connecticut; there was some speculation that this object may have been made in Hagerstown, Maryland, although I handled it last week, and there are a number of aspects about it that appear like pitchers made in Beverly: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/07/a-good-19th-century-slip-decorated-red.html.

Nonetheless, there will also be a section about the C.A. Lawrence Pottery in my forthcoming, 900-page, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts. However, in the meantime - for more information - see my first published book, titled, The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-beverly-pottery-the-wares-of-charles-a-lawrence/.

Also, see a feature story I wrote that was published on pages 28-29 in the January 10, 2025 issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly, titled, Japanese Design Influence On Painted Red Earthenware In Late Nineteenth Century Beverly, Mass.: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2025/01/new-published-feature-story-in-antiques.html.

Published in January 10, 2025 Issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly

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