Far Land Provisions opened in 2003, under a mashup of the last names of Jim Farley and Tom Boland, who was then chairman of the Historic District Commission. Its odd tables and big front porch beckon you to linger. It is cozy, aromatic and temptingly cluttered, and a beacon of life in dark winter months. The building (1952) has long played that role, as the L & A Supermarket — that would be Leo Morris and Arlene Morris — and as Nelson’s Market, originally founded in 1933 at 349 Commercial Street and run by Clarence M. Nelson and his wife, Mabel Nelson. Picture essay and more history »
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150 Bradford Street
150 Bradford Street, Nelson’s Market, courtesy of Tom Boland (1950s).
150 Bradford Street, Far Land Provisions, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
150 Bradford Street, Far Land Provisions, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
Far Land Provisions opened in 2004; its name combining those of Jim Farley and Tom Boland, who was then chairman of the Historic District Commission. Cozy, aromatic, and temptingly cluttered, it is a beacon of life in winter months. The building, constructed in 1952, has long played that role, as the L & A Supermarket — that would be Leo and Arlene Morris; Nelson’s Market, founded in 1933 at 349 Commercial and run by Clarence and Mabel Nelson; McNulty’s Market, Tim and Pam McNulty; and Bradford’s, Brad McDermott and Charles Pagliuca. As Nelson’s, the store provisioned much of the fishing fleet, delivering directly to the wharf. Its phone number, 45, is preserved as the root of Far Land’s (508) 487-0045.
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151 Bradford Street
151 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
151 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
Study of Capt. Caleb Rich, by Charles Hawthorne.
One of Charles Hawthorne’s Selectmen of Provincetown was Capt. Caleb Lombard Rich, who lived here. Capt. Ferdinand “Fred” Salvador registered the deed on this Second Empire-style house on 15 February 1944, evidently intending it as a birthday present for his wife, Philomena Valentine (Cordeiro) Salvador, who was born on Valentine’s Day. Born in Olhao, Portugal, Salvador was a leading fisherman from the 1920s through the ’70s. With his brother, Louis, who abutted him on 11 Johnson, he operated Shirley & Roland and Stella. He skippered C. R. & M., named for his children, Carol Ann (Salvador) Silva, Richard, and Michael; and Michael Ann, which was still working in 2007 as Chico-Jess. Later owners were responsible for the marvelously unrestrained interior décor.
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151 Bradford Street
Ferdinand R. “Fred” Salvador, a native of Olhao, Portugal, was a leading fisherman from the 1920s through the 70s. With his brother, Louis A. Salvador, who abutted him on 11 Johnson, he operated the Shirley & Roland and the Stella. He also skippered the C. R. & M., named for his children, Carol Ann (Salvador) Silva, Richard Salvador and Michael Salvador; and the Michael Ann, which was still working in 2007 – the oldest wood-hulled boat in the town fleet – as the Chico-Jess. Richard and Michael fished with him, as did his stepson Anthony R. Leonard, of 7 Alden Street. Salvador registered the deed on this house (±1870) on Feb. 15, 1944, evidently intending it as a birthday present for his wife, Philomena Valentine (Cordeiro) Salvador, who was born on Valentine’s Day. ¶ Updated, 2012-10-24
152 Bradford Street
(Former) Gracie House
For almost all of its existence, this sweet Queen Anne-style cottage from the late 19th century was in the hands of the Pine family: Joseph S. Pine in the early 20th century; Mary Rogers Pine, who ran the Rogers Dining Room for 35 years, until her death in 1946; followed by her daughter, Grace I. Pine, who sold cut flowers and potted plants here. More recently, it was the three-room Gracie House bed-and-breakfast, run by Debra Ann Messenbrink and Anna Maria Lutz, who wed in 2004.
152 Bradford Street
152 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
152 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2008).
For almost all of its existence, this sweet Queen Anne-style cottage from the late 19th century was in the hands of the Pine family: Joseph S. Pine in the early 20th century; Mary Rogers Pine, who ran the Rogers Dining Room for 35 years, until her death in 1946; followed by her daughter, Grace Pine, who sold cut flowers and potted plants here. More recently, it was the three-room Gracie House bed-and-breakfast, run by Debra Ann Messenbrink and Anna Maria Lutz.
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153 Bradford Street
153 Bradford Street is now on Building Provincetown 2020.
155 Bradford Street
155 Bradford Street is now on Building Provincetown 2020.
156 Bradford Street
156 Bradford Street, Elephant Walk Inn, by David W. Dunlap (2008).
Sears, Roebuck sold mail-order house kits with all the lumber, fixtures, and plans you needed to do it yourself. Assembled in 1917, this is one of several in town. It was a boarding house in the 1940s, run by Amelia Emily (Francis) Davis, where naval and civilian engineers stayed during submarine tests off Long Point. Alden “Pete” Steele and Clotilda “Tillie” Steele bought it in 1965 and ran it as the Casa Brazil Lodge, then sold it to Frederick and Phyllis Klein, who ran it as Frederick’s. Investors led by David Brudnoy purchased it in 1983 and created a condo, rechristening the front building Elephant Walk, after an Elizabeth Taylor movie of the same name. Len Paoletti, former proprietor of the Victoria House, owned the property from 1985 to 2003, when he sold it to Michael Clifford.
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156 Bradford Street
Spoiler alert: fast-forward through history to the provenance of the inn’s unusual name. It comes from Elizabeth Taylor’s two-tusked 1954 vehicle, Elephant Walk. Now, back to our story:
Sears, Roebuck & Company sold mail-order house kits in the early 20th century that were known as “Modern Homes.” They contained all the lumber, fixtures and plans to do it yourself. This is one of several Sears kit houses in town. Given how centrally Provincetown’s freight train yard was located, shipping such kits must have been relatively easy. (I say “relatively” since I myself couldn’t build a Revell scale model without trouble.) More history»
158 Bradford Street
This 1850s Greek Revival house was, for a time in the mid-50s, the Casa Brazil rooming house. (That business moved into the house next door in the ’60s.) By the late 1980s, it was known as Admiral’s Landing, an eight-room bed-and-breakfast, under the proprietorship of Steve Irving. Peter Bez and Chuck Anzalone acquired the property in 1995.
158 Bradford Street
158 Bradford Street, Admiral’s Landing, by David W. Dunlap (2014).
This 1850s house was, for a time in the mid-1950s, the Casa Brazil rooming house. (That business moved next door, to No. 156.) Through the 1970s and mid-’80s, it was owned by Dorothy Nearen and Marilyn Cubberley, and called Wave’s Landing Guest House. Under Steve Irving, who acquired it in 1988, it became Admiral’s Landing — a slightly more masculine-sounding name and one that would be higher up in alphabetical tourism listings. Peter Bez and Chuck Anzalone bought the place in 1995. It was sold in 2010 to Robyn and Audri Bazlen-Weglarz.
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160 Bradford Street
160 Bradford Street, Seasons, by David W. Dunlap (2008).
Once surrounded by maple trees, this gambrel-roofed house was built around 1860 for a Captain Small. From the 1960s through the early ’80s, it was the Maples guest house, run by Postmaster William Cabral and his wife, Ruth, who “cooked food for many a starving artist when the Fine Arts Work Center opened up,” her granddaughter Doreen Alsen recalled. It was renovated in 1984 as Plums Bed & Breakfast Inn, by Michael Wright. She (yes, she) was among the first Women Innkeepers of Provincetown, “whose goals were to create safe women-oriented spaces … and assist one another in all ways,” Karen Christel Krahulik wrote in Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort. It was acquired in 1999 by John Mirthes and Rick Reynolds, who run it as Seasons, an “inn for all” — gay, lesbian, and straight.
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160 Bradford Street
The gambrel-roofed Seasons has a plaque saying it was built around 1860 as a “whaling captain’s summer home.” Through the 1970s, it was The Maples guest house. It was renovated in 1984 as Plums Bed & Breakfast Inn, by Michael Wright. She was among the first members of the Women Innkeepers of Provincetown, “whose goals were to create safe women-oriented spaces in Provincetown, advertise spaces in lesbian and women’s magazines nationwide, and assist one another in all ways possible,” Karen Christel Krahulik wrote in Provincetown. The property was acquired in 1999 by John Mirthes and Rick Reynolds, who run it as Seasons, a five-room “inn for all” — gay, lesbian, straight — “a place where there are no barriers.”
165 Bradford Street
165 Bradford Street is now on Building Provincetown 2020.
167 Bradford Street
167 Bradford Street is now on Building Provincetown 2020.
170 Bradford Street
170 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2008).
170 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
For some Wellfleet children in the 1800s, this Federal-style building was school. After being floated down to Provincetown, it was purchased in 1896 for $285 by Antone Gaspar, a fisherman from Faial in the Azores. Antone’s son Joseph, born in the house in 1900, replaced a kitchen that had a sand floor with a new one, in knotty pine. Joseph inherited the house on the stipulation that his brother, Manuel, could remain here until he died, which he did — at the kitchen table. Joseph’s son, Warren, also lived here, as did his grandson John Gaspar Jr. The Gaspars sold the property in 1970. The next owners allowed it to deteriorate so far that it was given a cameo role in the 1995 comedy, Lie Down With Dogs, as a scary guest house. It was demolished in 2011 and replaced with a pretty simulacrum.
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† 170 Bradford Street
Derelict, this 200-year-old Federal house is a three-dimensional lesson in construction technique, showing how broad vertical planks were used to enclose the house, with horizontal clapboarding on top to weatherproof the walls. At least three generations of the Gaspar family lived here: Antone Gaspar, a fisherman born in Fayal, Azores; his sons Manuel J. Gaspar and Joseph Gaspar; and Joseph’s son, Warren E. Gaspar. The house has been empty at least six years.
174 Bradford Street
174 Bradford is both the address and the name of this rental property, an 1850 house that rises over a lush garden on the corner of Priscilla Alden Road. The property at 174 Bradford Street was acquired by Mitchell Baker and Thom Egan in 2003. The house has three bedrooms and can accommodate up to six guests, who paid as much as $3,500 a week in 2008. Baker and Egan live in the cottage at 5 Priscilla Alden Road for most of the year except winter, when they occupy the main house. “We are in the midst of creating a large victory garden in the back half of the property,” they said on their Web site.
175 Bradford Street
175 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2010).
The commanding view from this 1920s bungalow has been enjoyed by occupants as diverse as Marion Haymaker, a town librarian who shelved “inappropriate” books in hiding spots in the stacks, and Dini “Musty Chiffon” Lamot, of the band Human Sexual Response. In between, from 1958 to 1988, it was owned by Osma Couch Gallinger Tod, the author of nine books on weaving, basketry and other crafts; her daughter, Josephine (Couch) Del Deo, whose husband, the artist Sal Del Deo, used the house as a winter studio; and their daughter, Giovanna Del Deo. Tenants included Norman Mailer, the artist Jan Müller, and Robert Hatch, a critic at The Nation. The property has been owned since 1999 by Reed Boland.
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175 Bradford Street
Not the usual Cape Cod-Kennedy connection: this 1920s bungalow with a wisteria pergola, set on a rise over Bradford Street, was owned in the 1990s by Windle Davis and his partner Dini Lamot, of the band Human Sexual Response. “Jackie Onassis” is arguably the band’s best-known song. Lamont underscored its message in a music video he performed as Musty Chiffon, his drag alter ego. Reed Boland purchased the property in 1999.
178 Bradford Street
Snug is the word for this 1825 house, now an eight-room inn. In the 1960s, A. Philip Tarvers Jr. had his real estate business here. By the mid-70s, it was the Bradford Gardens Inn, among the earliest women-owned guest houses and one of only two accommodations in town rated “outstanding” by Massachusetts: An Explorer’s Guide. It has been owned since 2000 by James Mack, who renamed it Snug Cottage. Mack, a Unitarian Universalist chaplain, officiates at the weddings of same-sex couples, an amenity few guest houses can offer. He himself is married to Jon Arterton.
178 Bradford Street
178 Bradford Street, Snug Cottage, by David W. Dunlap (2008).
Snug is the word for this 1825 house, now an eight-room inn. In the 1960s, A. Philip Tarvers Jr. had his real estate business here. By the mid-70s, it was the Bradford Gardens Inn, among the earliest women-owned guest houses. It was purchased in 2000 by James Mack, who renamed it Snug Cottage. As a Unitarian Universalist chaplain, Mack is empowered to officiate at weddings, an amenity not many guest houses could offer. He’s married to Jon Arterton, founder and arranger of the Flirtations, a gay a cappella group, and founder and director of the Outer Cape Chorale. The couple sold Snug Cottage in 2010 to William Wilkins and Brian Wilkins.
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180 Bradford Street
180 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2009).
“Untitled (Summer Garden),” by E. Ambrose Webster, courtesy of the Provincetown History Preservation Project.
James Bakker, by David W. Dunlap (2010).
A board-and-batten Gothic Revival-style compound, remarkable occupants, and a view over Lovett’s Court make this an important landmark. It was built around 1850 by Capt. Caleb Cook, who made watch lubricant in the corner building. E. Ambrose Webster acquired it in 1900. His painting school was at 463 Commercial, but his own studio was here. His widow, Georgianna (Rodgers) Webster, leased it to Gordon Hamm. The property passed to her nephew, Karl Rodgers Sr., whose daughter, Delorma (Rodgers) Morton, owned it until 2008. They rented part of the property to the sculptor William Boogar Jr. and his wife, Alice; and to the artists Bert Yarborough and Paul Bowen. It is now owned by James Bakker, the president of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
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180 Bradford Street
The Gingerbread Gothic house, its remarkable occupants and its view over the rooftops of Lovetts Court have made this one of the most depicted places in town. The house was built c1850 by Capt. Caleb Cook, who made watch lubricant in the corner building. E. Ambrose Webster acquired it in 1900. His Summer School of Painting was at 463 Commercial Street but his own studio was here. After he died in 1935, his widow, Georgianna (Rodgers) Webster, leased the studio to the artist Gordon Hamm. She died in 1941. The property passed to her nephew, Karl Rodgers Sr., whose daughter, Delorma (Rodgers) Morton, owned it until 2008. More pictures and history»
184 Bradford Street
The “aerie” in the Aerie House & Beach Club is here on a small bluff above Bradford Street in a house built c1850/80. The beachfront annex is at 425 Commercial. It was formerly known as the Normandy House. The current innkeepers, Steve Tait and Dave Cook, acquired the property in 2000. The premier accommodation among the seven rooms is a 600-square-foot suite at the top of the house, called the Eagle’s Nest.
192 Bradford Street
192 Bradford Street is now on Building Provincetown 2020.
194 Bradford Street
194 Bradford Street, by David W. Dunlap (2010).
Ice coupon (ca 1920), courtesy of Stephen Borkowski.
Ice. To generations accustomed to electrically-powered refrigeration, it’s impossible to convey how important ice was in a community whose livelihood depended on the most perishable foodstuffs. If you were a fisherman or (a homemaker), you needed ice. And chances were good that you dealt with Joseph De Riggs, who came here from Faial in the Azores, or his son Charles De Riggs. A home customer might buy a book of coupons for, say, 5,000 pounds of ice, in “denominations” ranging from 10 to 100 pounds, redeeming the coupons when the iceman came. This gambrel-roofed house from the early 20th century served as headquarters of the De Riggs Ice Company. The ice house stood on East Harbor (Pilgrim Lake) until the early 1940s, when it was destroyed in a storm.
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194 Bradford Street
Ice. To generations accustomed to electrically-powered refrigeration and air-conditioning (even the author, old as he is, counts himself in this happy crowd), it is probably impossible to convey how important a commodity ice once was; especially in a community whose livelihood depended on the most perishable foodstuffs. If you were a fisherman or a homemaker, you needed ice. And if you needed ice, chances were pretty good that you were dealing with Joseph G. DeRiggs (±1874-1954) or his son Charles J. DeRiggs (b1895). The older DeRiggs arrived in this country from Fayal in the Azores when he was two years old. More history »
196 Bradford Street
The porch as proscenium arch. This handsome, low-slung, bungalow-style home was built in 1920 in what was a little compound of the DeRiggs family. Joseph G. DeRiggs, whose parents had come from Fayal, Azores, founded the DeRiggs Ice Company in 1897 and ran the business from 194 Bradford next door. The ice itself was stored down at Pilgrim Lake (then called East Harbor). Customers would obtain their ice in prepaid quantities from 10 to 100 pounds. His son Charles J. DeRiggs, who succeeded him in the business, lived here. As Charadel, this house also took in summer visitors.
198 Bradford Street
198 Bradford Street, garage door, by David W. Dunlap (2011).
The artist Isaac Henry Caliga of Boston and his wife, Elizabeth Howland, who came to town in 1912 to study with Hawthorne, lived here. Their house originated as a fish shed built around 1880 by the H. & S. Cook Company. It was turned into a barber shop, opposite Town Hall, before being rolled out here. Caliga died in 1944 and Howland in 1960. Her sister, Ruth (Howland) DeWitt, remained here until her death in 1965. The property is now owned by Gaby Rilleau, whose father, Roger, was a renowned sandal maker. Rilleau believes the garage doors, painted in the style of Peter Hunt, may be the work of a Caliga-DeWitt family member who ran the Peasant Door shop.
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198 Bradford Street
At the heart of this house is a fish shed, built c1880 by the H. & S. Cook Company. It was turned into a barber shop that stood opposite Town Hall before being rolled here. Isaac Henry Caliga (1857-1944), a painter who studied in Munich, and his wife, Elizabeth Howland (1877-1960), who came to town in 1912 to study with Charles W. Hawthorne, lived here. Picture essay and more history »
199 Bradford Street
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