95 Bradford Street. [2009, Dunlap]
David “Dixie” Federico outside his home at 95 Bradford Street, in a photo by Jay Critchley. [Courtesy of Jay Critchley]
Text last updated on 24 July 2016 | This was that increasingly rare thing: a plain mid-19th-century house in an increasingly conspicuous part of town. David “Dixie” Federico (d2008) — the longtime manager of the Post Office Café, a founder of Sisters in the Name of Love, and a two-time Selectman candidate — acquired the property in 1974, lived here, and died in this house. The photo of Dixie just outside the front door was taken by Jay Critchley. Perhaps the best epitaph came from Rick Hines, publisher of Provincetown Magazine, who said after Dixie’s death: “Provincetown’s color is a shade lighter today.” Eliot “Peter” Denault III bought the property in 2009 and began a renovation that was halted in the fall of 2010 for a number of violations, including extensive interior and exterior work that exceeded the scope of building permits. Among other things, the house was found to have seven bedrooms where it was supposed only to have four.
¶ Republished on 16 September 2023.
95 Bradford Street on the Town Map, showing property lines.