Steve Tom Nickerson Wharf

55-57 Commercial Street. Stephen Thomas Nickerson (1824-1893), a grandson of the Stephen Nickerson who built what is now called the Continue reading →

55-57 Commercial Street

Western Cold Storage. Seven enormous cold storage plants — known simply as “cold storages” or “freezers” — served the fishing Continue reading →

61B Commercial Street

The cottage at 61B Commercial showed up as a “Fish House” on a 1929 street atlas, but Elise M. Cozzi Continue reading →

81 Commercial Street

Sandbar Club (Second clubhouse). The East End has its Beachcombers Club, the ramshackle gathering spot for the art colony elite. Continue reading →

81 Commercial Street

Lyars’ Bench. How fierce were the rainbow trout out in Idaho? So fierce that when creeks flooded, ranchers had to Continue reading →

83 Commercial Street

Wharf Players Theater. Theater was taken so very seriously in Provincetown in the early 20th century that schisms arose. The Continue reading →

85 Commercial Street

Sandbar Club (First clubhouse). The East End has its Beachcombers Club, the ramshackle gathering spot for the art colony elite. Continue reading →

95 Commercial Street

A. T. Williams Coal Houses. Many shoreline buildings were associated with the enormous enterprise of Union Wharf, but two of Continue reading →