Hoxie House

Frommer's Review

Once a contender for the title of the Cape's oldest house (a couple of privately owned Provincetown houses appear to have a stronger claim), this saltbox (ca. 1680) is nonetheless a noteworthy beauty, with its diamond-pane windows and broad interior planking -- made of "king's wood," so called because England's king had, under pain of severe penalty, reserved the larger trees for his warships. The house was occupied, pretty much as is, with neither electricity nor plumbing, into the 1950s, which explains how it remained so remarkably intact. Even so, it had to be taken apart and reassembled to serve as the model Colonial home you see today. Fortunately, restorers opted not for the cluttered Colonial Revival look but a stark austerity that's much more historically accurate and shows off to advantage a handful of antiques on semipermanent loan from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

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