Building Histories
OAK BLUFFS BUILDING HISTORIES
Sponsored by the Oak Bluffs Land & Wharf Co.
The Stops
15 Lake Avenue:
The Flying Horses
The oldest operating carousel in the country, built at Coney Island in 1876 and delighting summer visitors in Oak Bluffs since 1884.
20 Circuit Avenue: Eastaway
The first floor of the old Pawnee House, once the grandest of Circuit Avenue’s grand four-story Victorian resort hotels.
24 Circuit Avenue: Basics
Home of the legendary Moon-Cusser Coffee House, where nationally known musicians played in the mid-1960s and Carly Simon sang at open-mic nights.
31 Circuit Avenue: The Arcade
One of the first buildings on Circuit Avenue: A gateway connecting the Methodist Campground with the secular world of the Oak Bluffs Land and Wharf Company’s summer resort.
33 Circuit Avenue: Oso
Once an independent grocery store in the days before national chains like A&P. Once there were half-a-dozen in downtown Oak Bluffs; today only one remains.
42 Circuit Avenue:
Greene’s Block
The pet project (and summer home) of an eccentric Oak Bluff’s businessman, who moved a legendary Victorian inn to make way for it.