Description
Enjoy beautiful water views and spacious living from this impeccably restored Second Empire two family home on the tip of Cape Cod in Provincetown, MA.
Located on Commercial Street in the East End, this grand residence sits on a large corner lot with space to park.
The perfect home for entertaining, with it's gourmet kitchen, original pine floors, high ceilings, large rooms, and lovely moldings.
Comprised of six bedrooms in total, the home also includes a charming one bedroom apartment with a separate outside entrance.
You'll be the envy of all your friends and family with this large Ptown home - there's plenty of room for guests, yet easy to retain your privacy as well.
Also on the property is a garage and a small outbuilding that would make a great artist's studio or workshop.
Neigborhood Info
Provincetown is a town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The population was 3,431 at the 2000 census. Sometimes called "P-town", the town is known for its beaches, harbor, artists, tourist industry, and its reputation as a gay resort.
The area was originally settled by the Nauset
tribe, who had a settlement known as Meeshawn. Provincetown was
incorporated in 1727 after harboring ships for more than a century. Bartholomew Gosnold named Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor in 1602. In 1620, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact in the harbor, agreeing to settle and build a self-governing community, and then came ashore in the West End.
Though the Pilgrims chose to settle across the bay in Plymouth,
Provincetown enjoyed an early and strong reputation for its fishing
grounds. The "Province Lands" were first formally recognized by the
union of Plymouth colony and Massachusetts Bay colony in 1692, and its first municipal government was established in 1714.
The population of Provincetown remained small through most of the 18th century. Following the American Revolution, however, Provincetown grew rapidly as a fishing and whaling center.
The population was bolstered by a number of Portuguese
sailors who, hired to work on US ships, came to live in Provincetown.
By the 1890s, Provincetown was booming, and had begun to develop a
resident population of writers and artists, as well as a summer tourist industry. After the 1898 Portland Gale
severely damaged the town's fishing industry, members of the town's art
community took over many of the abandoned buildings. By the early
decades of the 20th century, the town had acquired an international
reputation for its artistic and literary output. The Provincetown Players
was an important experimental theater company formed during this period
and an example of intellectual and artistic connections to Greenwich Village that began then.
The town includes eight buildings and a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the mid-1960s, Provincetown saw population growth. The town's rural character appealed to the hippies
of the era; furthermore, property was relatively cheap and rents were
correspondingly low, especially during the winter. Many of those who
came stayed and raised families. Commercial Street gained numerous
cafes, leather shops, head shops — various hip small businesses blossomed and many flourished.
In the mid-1970s members of the gay community began moving to Provincetown. In 1978 the Provincetown Business Guild (PBG) was formed to promote gay tourism.
Today more than 200 businesses belong to the PBG and Provincetown is
perhaps the best-known gay summer resort on the east coast.
Since the 1990s, property prices have risen significantly, with
numerous condo conversions causing some residents economic hardship. Provincetown's
tourist season has expanded to the point where the whole year is dotted
with festivals and weeklong events. The most established are in the
summer: The Portuguese Festival and PBG's Carnival Week.
