164 Commercial Street

Christian Union Church | Wesley Chapel. The U. U. Meeting House at 236 Commercial Street is beautiful, venerable, and — Continue reading →

165 Commercial Street

Herbolt’s blacksmith shop. Insurance maps of the late 1800s and very early 1900s show a substantial smithy on the site Continue reading →

165 Commercial Street

Herbolt’s merry-go-round. I count this among my happiest — and most surprising — research discoveries. While looking over a photocopy Continue reading →

167 Commercial Street

Nickerson-Rogers house. “Honestly, dear, I don’t do anything special for my friends,” Joanna Filceanna “Annie” (Moore) Rogers (1887-1972) told the Continue reading →

170 Commercial Street

Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (1866). Provincetown lore has it that the congregation of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church were the Continue reading →

170 Commercial Street

Centenary Methodist Church (1909). Provincetown is a long way from any prairie. But I can’t think of a better way Continue reading →

B. H. Dyer’s Wharf

171-173 Commercial Street. Short and short-lived, this utilitarian wharf would scarcely have been remembered but for a couple of memorable Continue reading →

173 Commercial Street

Telephone booth. There is an ever-diminishing number of people in the world — I am one of them — who Continue reading →