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Centerville is one of the seven villages in the Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. [1] Located on the South Side of Barnstable, Centerville is primarily residential, and includes a small business district as well as several notable beaches.
Because of the low rents owner John McAdams was receiving, he was unable to repair several of his apartments on Broadway to make them habitable. [19] He testified to the rent control board that it would cost more than $45,000 to make them legally habitable. [19] The board allowed McAdams to receive between $144 and $192 a month for the ...
[1] [3] Some barndominiums double as both a residence and as a place of business. [2] A similar style is the shouse (workshop plus house). [4] The term barndominium was originally coined by Karl Nilsen, who was a real estate developer in Connecticut. Barndominium is derived from using a combination of the words barn and condominium. [5]
Located at the "elbow" of Cape Cod, Chatham became a shipping, fishing, and whaling center. It has a considerable number of 18th-century buildings, whose charm helped it develop into a popular summer resort. Chatham is home to the Chatham Lighthouse, which was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1808 to protect the ships circling the ...
Dennis is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located near the center of the Cape Cod peninsula. It is a seaside resort town with colonial mansions along the northern Cape Cod Bay coastline and beaches along the southern Nantucket Sound. [1] As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,674. [2]
Eastham is located on the "forearm" of Cape Cod, and is 23 miles (37 km) south of Provincetown, the same distance east-northeast of Barnstable, 38 miles (61 km) east of the Sagamore Bridge, and 92 miles (148 km) (by land) southeast of Boston. Approximately one-third of the town is located within the Cape Cod National Seashore. There are several ...
Sunrise at Loop's Beach. Cotuit (/ k ə ˈ t u ɪ t / kə-TOO-it) is one of the villages of the Town of Barnstable on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.. Located on a peninsula on the south side of Barnstable about midway between Falmouth and Hyannis, Cotuit is bounded by the Santuit River to the west on the Mashpee town line, the villages of Marstons Mills to the ...
Truro / ˈ t r ɜːr oʊ / is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro.Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". [1]