A row of classic tiny cottages along the beach in the town of Truro, Massachusetts, just outside of Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod.
The Days family started welcoming summer visitors on the Cape back in 1931 with their first rental cottages on the beach in Truro. “Arbutus” is one of the more than twenty identical summer rental cottages built nearly 100 years ago.
Now a condominium colony, retaining the iconic look that has attracted visitors since the early days of tourism on Cape Cod and some of the units can still be rented by the various individual owners.
Arbutus is a genus of 12 accepted species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to warm temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, the Canary Islands and North America.
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Provincetown sits at the very northern tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This seaside town was first discovered by the pilgrims of the Mayflower way back in the year 1620.
P-town is known as a longtime haven for artists, lesbians, and gay men. Lively Commercial Street hosts numerous galleries plus restaurants, nightclubs, cabarets, and specialty shops.
Just outside of P-town is the town of Truro which consists of some of the wildest landscape on Cape Cod with huge sand dunes and the National Seashore. Just about 100 miles by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the “Outer Cape”. Truro provides a quieter, more natural setting for a beach vacation.