Former Home Club House for Men in Uniform (World War I)
205 Bradford Street. [2016, Dunlap]
A John Kearney sculpture in front of 205 Bradford Street in 2008. (It has since hopped away.) [Dunlap]
Text last updated on 31 December 2024 | With more than 3,000 square feet of space, this house has commanded premium prices whenever it’s come on the market, selling for more than $1 million as early as 2004. When it was owned by Wesley Scott Davenport and others, a John Kearney sculptor of a kangaroo greeted visitors and passersby on Bradford Street.
Jenny Shoukimas sent the following fascinating message on 29 December 2024 about the property, owned by her father and step-mother, Gregory Shoukimas and Maureen Gillis:
“Our family had an argument about when the house was built, and the architect in me needed to know! After a deep dive into the county deeds, I discovered that the house was built as a live/work studio for an early Beachcomber and Baltimore artist, Adolphe Blondheim. I suspect that’s why the house is oriented on a north-south axis (there’s a large northern-facing window on the top floor) and not to the street grid.
“More interesting is a short article from the November 1917 Radcliffe Quarterly describing how the house/studio was repurposed as a ‘Home Club House for Men in Uniform’ during World War I. Young soldiers stationed on Provincetown patrol boats could stop by for a bath, a meal, and a game of pool. The house was soon sold to Frank Rowe and his wife. He managed the nearby Atlantic fisheries. Billy Rowe then lived in the house and he had his jewelry making studio on the lofty top floor. (Our neighbors remember him!)”
205 Bradford Street on the Town Map, showing property lines.