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Sandwich Historical Commission

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Every so often we will be featuring winners of our Historic Preservation Awards. One such house is number 6 Grove Street. It was purchased in 2004 by Brenda Kelly and Jeffrey McCarthy who have restored this historic home to its original beauty.

The home was built in 1888 by Benjamin Gibbs Bartley (born June, 1857) and presented as a gift to his new wife Theodora. They named it “Bendora,” derived from their names: Benjamin and Theodora. They were married on October 3, 1888. The family has original documents including a deed recorded on 14 June 1888 and receipts for framing, nails and brick purchased from local lumber suppliers on 16 June, 1888.
Around this time, Bartley owned a dry goods store on Jarves Street in the Town Center. (There is a photo of the store on page 403 of Sandwich, A Cape Cod Town by Russell Lovell.)
In 1907, Benjamin Bartley was a Trustee and one of 16 founders of the Sandwich Historical Society. In the 1920 Federal Census Bartley is listed as follows:
Age: 62; Occupation: Retail Merchant, Dry Goods Store;
Place of Abode: Grove St., Sandwich;
Wife: Theodora (age 59);
Son: Hastings Newcomb Bartley (age 27), entomologist U.S. Gov't;
Father's Place of Birth: New Hampshire.

His next-door neighbors on Grove St were Rebecca R. Newcomb and her niece, Martha who was a primary school teacher. Neighboring #8 Grove Street was known as the Newcomb Tavern. It was established in the 1700s and was the first inn to open in Sandwich. In the time of the Revolution it was known to be headquarters for the Tories. Bartley married a Newcomb: Caroline Theodora.
Benjamin Bartley died on January 24, 1930. His wife died in the same year on April 1st. Both are buried at Bay View Cemetery in Sandwich.
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION:
This is a 2 1/2-story house with an elaborate interpretation of Victorian style including a cross gable pavilion, angled porches, cut away corners, and paired windows. Other features include balustrades, balconies and coin-block trim. (This House History compiled and edited by Don Bayley. ) ... See more

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Sandwich Historical Commission

Alice Evelyn Harvey operated a tea room just behind Town Hall at the site of the Grist Mill and tag factory on Shawme Lake from 1920 to abt. 1950. (The tag factory building has since been torn down.)

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Sandwich Historical Commission

Post card showing Grist Mill and Tag Factory buildings, Shawme Lake (Pond) and Mrs. Harvey's Tea Shop Terrace

"They have caught the trick here of serving your tea and toast on a little waterside terrace overlooking a scene out of a painter‘s portfolio. Shawme Lake with its Indian name, many think, has the most sylvan setting of any body of water hereabouts. It is not large, and therein lies much of its charm. Drooping willows line its banks, casting cool shadows on its mirror-like surface; a small squadron of ducks manoeuvers to and fro; pond lilies bloom decoratively; and children wade, of a summer's day, along its shallow edges. The goslings waddle up on the terrace. In the beginning there was no lake here, only a small meandering stream, the source of which was a pond to the southward, hidden among the hills.

A day came when the stream was dammed at the spot where you now sip your tea, thus producing Shawme Lake. Another dam was built between the two ponds. A cotton factory once hummed at the upper power site, which later became a tack factory, and marbleworks still later.

At the lower dam the wheels of a grist mill turned, a portion of which remains as the quaint bit of an affair where your tea is brewed. A sleepy graveyard basks in the sun on a point of land that makes out into the water, unquestionably the most idyllic God's acre in this Pilgrim country."
(From Cape Cod Ahoy by Arthur Wilson Tarbell, 1932) ... See more

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Sandwich Town Hall Preservation Trust

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