Foley House
214 Bradford Street. [2013, Dunlap]
Alice Foley in 2007. [Courtesy of Sally Rose]
Text last updated in 2015 | “This house is proof that we are family here in Provincetown,” said Alice Foley in 1996 at the dedication of Foley House, an assisted-living, congregate home for 10 otherwise homeless people living with H.I.V. and AIDS — the only program of its kind on the Cape. Foley, who lived at 97 Commercial Street, cofounded the Provincetown AIDS Support Group (now the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod). Its housing director, Irene Rabinowitz, worked on this project with the Provincetown Housing Authority. The effort began as a renovation, but the contractor demolished the existing structure in 1995. The house then had to be reconstructed. There are 10 bedrooms, each with a refrigerator and microwave oven, and two kitchens. The original house was the home until 1952 of Jonathan C. “Jot” Small, “one of the last of the truly salty Cape Cod personages,” the Advocate said. He accompanied Admiral Donald B. MacMillan on several trips to the Arctic and returned with the skill needed to build an especially fast class of sailboat known as the Eskimo.
¶ Republished on 6 October 2023.
214 Bradford Street on the Town Map, showing property lines.