160 Bradford Street

Former Seasons

160 Bradford Street. [2017, Dunlap]


160 Bradford Street as Seasons. [2008, Dunlap]


Text last updated in 2015 | Once surrounded by maple trees, this gambrel-roofed house was built around 1860 for a Captain Small. From the 1960s through the early ’80s, it was the Maples guest house, run by Postmaster William Cabral and his wife, Ruth, who “cooked food for many a starving artist when the Fine Arts Work Center opened up,” her granddaughter Doreen Alsen recalled. It was renovated in 1984 as Plums Bed & Breakfast Inn, by Michael Wright. She (yes, she) was among the first Women Innkeepers of Provincetown, “whose goals were to create safe women-oriented spaces … and assist one another in all ways,” Karen Christel Krahulik wrote in Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort. It was acquired in 1999 by John Mirthes and Rick Reynolds, who ran it as Seasons, an “inn for all” — gay, lesbian, and straight.


¶ Republished on 27 September 2023.


160 Bradford Street on the Town Map, showing property lines.



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