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Photo Lee Brock
Also on the tour, a cottage (door shown below) used by Tennessee Williams when he was a young writer spending summers on the Cape. |
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The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum hold a house tour Saturday in the West End of town that will include the “Octagon House.” |
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If these walls could talk
By Melora B. North
Banner Staff
Do you ever wonder what went on behind the walls of some of the antique homes scattered around Provincetown? Or do you just want to see the insides because you know there are some clever architectural feats that have been accomplished? Well, now is your opportunity to get a peek at eight homes and two buildings in the West End of town. The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum is holding its benefit house tour, called “At Home in Provincetown: Plain and Fancy,” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and on show will be a range of properties including a historic shed, restored waterfront homes, even a condo on Captain Jack’s Wharf.
Interestingly, two of the structures have a close affiliation with Tennessee Williams, who will be remembered next week when the Tennessee Williams Festival is taking place throughout town. One building is a shed where, it is said, the playwright put the finishing touches on his play “The Glass Menagerie” during the summer of 1944. His signature remains on the door of this humble structure that, at the time, was owned by artist Karl Knaths. Another spot Williams haunted was Captain Jack’s Wharf, where he spent the summer of 1940, and even wrote of the “little place built on stilts” in his memoirs, according to Laurel Guadazno, chairperson for the event.
Tickets for the house tour are $20 to $25, available at the museum, Seamen’s Bank offices in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet and Eastham, Utilities and Wa in Provincetown and Jules Besch Stationers in Wellfleet. For information visit www.pilgrim-monument.org or call (508) 487-1310.
To read more on the tour and the houses included, see this week’s Provincetown Banner print edition.
mnorth@provincetownbanner.com
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Sep 20th, 2007