131A Commercial Street

Flyer’s marine railway. Four major marine railways were constructed in Provincetown in the modern era. Frank “Bisca” Taves (1905-1984) was Continue reading →

131A Commercial Street

Puritan Fish Freezing Company cold storage plant. The short-lived, five-story Puritan freezer, which opened in 1914, was the middle one Continue reading →

Puritan Cold Storage Pier

131A Commercial Street. The pier and pier shed constructed around 1914 to serve the Puritan Fish Freezing Company Cold Storage Continue reading →

133 Commercial Street

Original Cookie’s Tap | Former Joseph Amber store. “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet,” went a famous American Continue reading →

139 Commercial Street

Studio | 139½ Commercial Street. An intriguingly short-lived structure turns up in a perusal of the Sanborn insurance maps that Continue reading →

139 Commercial Street

Dwelling | 137A Commercial Street. Many structural ghosts inhabit the waterfront property that belonged in turn to the Costas, Arestas, Continue reading →

139 Commercial Street

Cabral’s Fish House. Not surprisingly, the harborside fish house on this parcel was a large structure, covering almost as much Continue reading →

Smith’s Wharf

139 Commercial Street. Smith’s Wharf was something of a runt, and not a very long-lived runt at that. It stretched Continue reading →