130 Bradford Street

Gulf Oil Gas Station. The Bradford-Standish intersection is downtown Provincetown’s utilitarian heart: two service stations (with convenience stores attached) and Continue reading →

132 Bradford Street

Old Colony Railroad Passenger Depot. For better or worse, Provincetown was firmly joined to the mainland on 23 July 1873, Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Landing Field. Conventional airport histories begin in the 1940s. But there was a rudimentary landing field at least a Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Municipal Airport. More than 300 acres were taken out of the Province Lands to permit construction of the Provincetown Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Municipal Airport | Passenger terminal I | Michael A. Leger Memorial Sightseeing Shack. Unless I’m mistaken, the modest shack Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Municipal Airport | Passenger terminal II. In 1959, more than a decade after the airport opened, it got its Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Municipal Airport | Passenger terminal III. The renovated version of the terminal structure, designed in 1995-1996 by the TRA-BV Continue reading →

Cape Cod National Seashore | Province Lands

Provincetown Municipal Airport | Hangar I. The citizens of Provincetown attended a “hangar dance” on 20 May 1950 to celebrate Continue reading →