Atwood-Higgins House

A restored Cape-style house from about 1730, set in a farmstead on Bound Brook Island in Wellfleet and run by Cape Cod National Seashore.

Wellfleet, MA

About Atwood-Higgins House

The Atwood-Higgins House sits in a remote corner of Bound Brook Island in Wellfleet. Its eastern section was likely built around 1730 by Thomas Higgins. George Higgins, a Brookline businessman, inherited the property in 1920 and spent four decades restoring the house and adding outbuildings around a central barnyard. He filled the house with period antiques and left out modern comforts. He donated the property to the National Park Service in 1961. The seashore maintains the main house and offers tours, while preservation of the 20th-century farm buildings has recently received renewed attention.

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