Many famous people are associated with these Essex County historic places including Retire Beckett, Winslow Homer, Mary Baker Eddy, Abigail K. Foster, Asa Perley and Andrew Robinson.
Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Essex County places including Joseph Everett Chandler, Samuel McIntire, Mutiple, Lockwood-Green Company, Charles Eliot, unknown, Jacob Chickering, Cram and Ferguson, Charles J. Connick and Peter II Woodberry. Prominent architectural styles found in Essex Country are Federal, Greek Revival and Late Victorian.