99-101 Commercial Street

Nathaniel Hopkins Condominium at Union Wharf (Unit 2). Captain Jack wasn’t the only waterfront businessman who realized that summer visitors Continue reading →

99-101 Commercial Street

Nathaniel Hopkins Condominium at Union Wharf (Unit 1). Captain Jack wasn’t the only waterfront businessman who realized that summer visitors 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 →

109 Commercial Street

N. C. Brooks & Son Livery Stable. Originally, in the 1860s and 1870s (if not earlier), Newell Cyrenus Brooks (1833-1907) 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 →

111 Commercial Street

Building 2. Neither of the pier sheds on Burch Wharf were shown in the 1938 street atlas. But they were Continue reading →