Gay Head-Aquinnah Town Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This boundary increase extends the Gay Head/Aquinnah Town Center Historic District on Martha's Vineyard with two groups of buildings along South Road, Totem Pole Way and Jeffers Way. The additions include 17 contributing and 3 noncontributing buildings, mostly one to one-and-a-half-story, shingled wood-frame houses with Craftsman, Victorian Eclectic or no particular style. Among them is the Linus Jeffers House at 4 Jeffers Way, built before 1893, which housed a post office, a grocery and town offices until the Town Hall opened in 1929. The Adriaan Vanderhoop House at 46 South Road and the house at 57 South Road are modest vernacular dwellings from the late 19th century. The Totem Pole Inn, from the 1920s, sits on a two-and-a-half-acre parcel with an innkeeper's residence, four Craftsman cottages and a garage. Together these properties reflect how the town center grew around its civic buildings and Wampanoag families such as the Jeffers and Vanderhoops.