This remarkable old saltbox is virtually unaltered since it was built in 1675. Although occupied until the 1950s, the house was never modernized with electricity or plumbing. Furnishings reflect daily life in the colonial period, with some pieces on loan from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Highlights are diamond-shaped lead-glass windows and a collection of antique textile machines.
Once a contender for the title of the Cape's oldest house (a couple of privately owned Provincetown houses appear to have a stronger claim), this saltbox (ca. 1680) is nonetheless a noteworthy beauty, with its diamond-pane windows and broad interior planking -- made of "king's wood," so called because England's king had, under pain of severe penalty, reserved the larger trees for his warships....