31 Atkins Mayo Road. [2013, Dunlap]
The artist and restaurateur Salvatore Del Deo — namesake of both Ciro & Sal’s and Sal’s Place — has owned this property since 1955 with his wife, Josephine Breen (Couch) Del Deo (1925-2016). She was the town historian emerita; a moving force behind the Cape Cod National Seashore, the Historic District, and the former Heritage Museum, and the author of Figures in a Landscape, a biography of Ross Moffett; and Compass Grass Anthology. In 1953, she married Sal, who had attended the Art Students League and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston before coming to town to study with Henry Hensche. His studio is a freestanding building out back. To design it, Del Deo told me, he measured the dimensions of studios used by Moffett, Philip Malicoat, Pauline Palmer, Max Bohm, Frederick Waugh, and Charles Hawthorne. The main house was originally the studio of Mary Bacon Jones.
Salvatore and Josephine Del Deo. [2014, Dunlap]
Salvatore and Josephine Del Deo. [2014, Dunlap]
Decorative paving outside the house. [2018-2015, Dunlap]
Doorbell by William F. Boogar Jr. [2013, Dunlap]
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Detail of the mantel beam. [2018, Dunlap]
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Sal in the kitchen. [2014, Dunlap]
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Left: Sal, portrayed by Charles A. Couper. Right: Sal. [2018, Dunlap]
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Doll house. [2018, Dunlap]
Painting by Sal. [2018, Dunlap]
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Left: Weaving. [2018, Dunlap] Right: Maquette of Figurehead of the Rose (Josephine Del Deo Archives Memorial), 2012, by Romolo Del Deo. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Right: Josephine at Frenchie’s Shack. [2009, Dunlap]
Two of Josephine’s books.
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s desk. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Isola d’Ischia, drawn by Sal in 1954, in Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
In Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Sculpture in Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s typewriter. [2018, Dunlap]
Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Exterior of Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
Plaque on the exterior of Josephine’s office. [2018, Dunlap]
31 Atkins Mayo Road on the Town Map, showing property lines.
Also at this address
• Studio.
¶ Last updated 31 August 2018.