100 Bradford Street

Provincetown had hand-cranked telephones until 1938, when 100 Bradford was built as the switching center for the New England Telephone Continue reading →

102-104A Bradford Street

Provincetown Hotel at Gabriel’s | Gabriel’s Condominium. Elizabeth Gabriel Brooke (pictured in about 1979), proprietor of the Provincetown Hotel at Continue reading →

7 Captain Bertie’s Way

Winslow Street Water Tank I. In the early 1890s, the municipal water system was created. Part of the land owned Continue reading →

7 Captain Bertie’s Way

Winslow Street Water Tank II. The second tower on this site — known officially as “No. 1” after the first Continue reading →

7 Captain Bertie’s Way

Winslow Street Water Tank III. That elephant in the middle of the living room that nobody talks about? It is Continue reading →

127 Commercial Street

Provincetown Light and Power Company | E. J. Rivard Company | Atlantic Coast Fisheries Company. By 1929, the home of 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 →