103 Commercial Street

Flyer’s Beach | Flyer’s Boatyard. Francis “Flyer” Santos returned to Provincetown in 1944 from his wartime occupation of building PT Continue reading →

J. & L. N. Paine’s Wharf

105 Commercial Street. Paine’s Wharf, 700 feet long, “provided docking space for the Grand Bankers to unload their catches,” Irving Continue reading →

105 Commercial Street

J. & L. N. Paine Company Store. In the large store at the head of J. & L. N. Paine’s Continue reading →

Brooks Wharf

109 Commercial Street. A substantial pier — though not very long, at 400 feet — was on or near this Continue reading →

James Burch Wharf

111 Commercial Street. The 200-foot-long Burch Wharf was used to store nets and fishing gear, Irving S. Rogers wrote in Continue reading →

122 Commercial Street

Few siblings have had such a collective impact on Provincetown as the second generation of the Cabral family — (William) 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 →