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473 Commercial Street, by David W. Dunlap (2012).
Miriam and Donald MacMillan, courtesy of the Provincetown History Preservation Project.
The town’s most famous native son, Rear Adm. Donald MacMillan, was an intrepid and imaginative Arctic explorer, anthropologist, geographer, and naturalist. His goal was “to bring back to scholars of all kinds bits of useful knowledge about this little-known great domain.” In nine journeys, he was joined by his wife, Miriam Look MacMillan. Though he traveled more than 300,000 miles, he lived just blocks from where he was born, 524 Commercial. His memorabilia are at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. MacMillan Wharf is named for him. This building was originally the barracks for the Long Point batteries. Its owners, Christopher Pula and Thomas Biggert, have treated it respectfully and preserved its lovely eccentricities.
More than 2,000 buildings and vessels are searchable on buildingprovincetown.com. The Building Province • PROVINCETOWN — More than one passionate project has been inspired by Provincetown, but none like this one. David Dunlap, who covers historic preservation for the New York Times and visits Provincetown frequently, has put together the history of more than 1,000 Provincetown homes. His completed work, "Building Provincetown," includes about 1,000 homes and another 1,000 boats on buildingprovincetown.com, and about 650 entries (including three dozen fishing vessels) with 1,200 accompanying photos in a book. The book, which took Dunlap seven years working during vacations, nights and weekends, is available at the Provincetown Town Clerk’s office for $20. For people who enjoy a stroll through this compact waterfront village, the book is an encyclopedia of pretty homes and perfect details that only an author who truly loves a place could complete. Indeed, Dunlap said he meant for the book and website to be taken "as a love • David W. Dunlap is a Metro reporter, and writes the Building Blocks column. He has worked at The Times for 40 years. Some Americans are just getting to know Donald Trump. Readers of The Times have known him for 42 years. They first met him, on the front page no less, on Oct. 16, 1973. Then 27 years old, Mr. Trump was the president of the Trump Management Corporation, at 600 Avenue Z in Brooklyn, which owned more than 14,000 apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” the headline stated. The Department of Justice had brought kostym in federal court in Brooklyn against Mr. Trump and his father, Fred C. Trump, charging them with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the operation of 39 buildings. “The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’ ” The Time NYT writer chronicles Provincetown's history, home by home
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