{"nrhp_refnum":"99000528","name":"Collins Cottages Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"150 MA 6","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eastham","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.79962523800003,"lon":-69.98152971199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Maritime History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2.7-acre district at 150 State Highway (U.S. Route 6) in Eastham, Massachusetts, on the shore of Town Cove. It holds seven cottages built 1928-29 and 1946, a 1940 shucking house, a fieldstone seawall and several later support structures.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a remarkably intact early 20th-century Cape Cod cottage colony, one of few well-preserved examples of the type. It reflects the growth of automobile tourism and summer resorts on the Lower Cape. It also has maritime ties through the family's shellfishing operation on Town Cove.","narrative":"Collins Cottages is a small seaside cottage colony on Town Cove in Eastham, Massachusetts, just north of the Orleans rotary. Seven one-story, shingle-clad cottages line a shell-and-stone driveway. Six were built in 1928-29 and one in 1946. Most have screened verandas facing the water, low roofs with exposed rafter ends, and stone fireplaces, and some interior wood and framing came from the former Chatham Naval Air Station. A shucking house from 1940 and a mortared fieldstone seawall from 1936 recall the family's shellfishing work, which began in the basement of the first cottage. The district matters because it shows how automobile travel and the paving of Route 6 fed the summer resort trade on the Lower Cape. Few cottage colonies of this kind survive there, and this one keeps its simple buildings, native landscaping and long-standing family ownership, with repeat visitors across generations.","period_of_significance":"1928-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century: Craftsman; No Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The cottages remain in domestic and recreational use, and the form notes the family that built the colony still owns it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.755864-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7940/63794059/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/99000528.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000528/99cb6014ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000528/99cb6014ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerry Johnson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entranceway_To_Collins_Cottages.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry Johnson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entranceway_To_Collins_Cottages.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794059","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Cottages_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5147365"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/collins-cottages-historic-district-99000528/"}