A Gift to Main Street

Over the last few decades, many homes in Cotuit’s historic district have been renovated. Today, there are only a handful in real need. 1081 Main Street was a holdout. As of a year ago, it was looking very sad and abandoned. (The picture below belies how bad it was…lots of rot, holes in the roof, […]

Mansard Lady Update

Happy New Year. After some more research, and walking, and talking to Jim Gould about his article on the subject, I substantially updated my post about the Mansard roofs of Cotuit. First, I found one more and reconciled my numbers; I’ve got them all. I tweaked some of the history and, in particular the dates […]