21 Center Street

Salt works. Second only to the fish themselves, salt was the most important natural product in any 18th- and 19th-century Continue reading →

Myrick Atwood’s Wharf

83 Commercial Street. The wharf that became renowned as the home of the Wharf Players Theatre was a cod liver Continue reading →

Elisha Freeman’s Wharf

125 Commercial Street. Elisha Freeman’s Wharf was one of the most important in town, built around 1830 and run in Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

J. Paine Jr. Lumber & Coal Yard. A generation before the enormous cold storage plant that many older townspeople remember Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage Company | Atlantic Coast Fisheries Cold Storage. Cold storage transformed Provincetown. In 1893, the town presented Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage engine house. What little aesthetic charm the cold storage plant possessed came from the deep front Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage freezer. Unless you lived here at the time, in which case you remember it clearly, it’s Continue reading →

125 Commercial Street

Cape Cod Cold Storage filleting department. Filleted frozen fish saved money for dealers (stocks lasted much longer, weighed far less, Continue reading →