CCNS | Province Lands

37 Tin Pan Alley Road | Drewson Cottage

[2007, Town Assessor]


Updated on 5 June 2026 | “The houses are named after previous owners before 1960 — all listed as state-owned before the Cape Cod National Seashore was created — though they probably have a longer story,” said Mark Adams, an artist and former geologist and geographic information system cartographer at the National Park Service.

The Drewson Cottage is kind of an odd duck. It sits in semicircle together with the three so-called Pearsall Cottages, but it’s clearly a larger structure; more likely a family’s summer residence than a cabin for park workers. At the moment, it remains a mystery, as do its former owners.


 


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