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Regular museum hours Thursday-Saturday 10 am-2 pm through Sept 16. Open year round for weddings and special events.

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The best way to celebrate love is with friends, family, and of course, lobsters! 🦞Congratulations Natalie & Patrick! 💍

& Thank you to @maddiebottassophoto for sharing her amazing work! 📸

Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Florals: @floral_esthetics
Makeup: @byjuliadesimone
Hair: @studio_53salonandspa
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Clair & Jacob's gorgeous wedding on Cape Cod 🤍 easily one of my favorite days in September!

Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Photographer: @emilymccaffertyphotography
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Band: @neonlighthouseband
Catering: @pizzawolves
Florist: @firehouse_flowers_plymouth
Planning: @everafterweddingco
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Rentals: @truenortheventrentals
Couple: @cbearhegz @marques_jacob

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Just one little town over from Cotuit is one of the cutest farmers’ markets. 🌿

The Osterville Farmers’ Market pops up every Friday on the grounds of the Osterville Historical Museum, with local produce, fresh flowers, baked goods, cheeses, specialty Cape Cod finds and plenty of reasons to wander. And somehow, you’re almost guaranteed to spot a pretty nice car or two in the parking lot.

While you’re there, take a look around the museum grounds. The two-acre campus tells the story of Osterville through historic homes, period gardens and its incredible wooden boatbuilding heritage. You’ll find the Cammett House, one of the village’s oldest homes, the 1824 Captain Jonathan Parker House, and a collection of full-size wooden Crosby boats and original boatbuilding tools that nod to the town’s long maritime history.

A very Cape Cod way to spend a Friday morning. ⚓️

📍 Osterville Historical Museum, 155 West Bay Road
🧺 Osterville Farmers’ Market
Fridays, 9 AM–1 PM through October 9

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Olivia and Adam’s wedding @ostervillemuseum this past weekend was beautiful! Everything from the setting and weather to the incredible atmosphere came together perfectly. Congratulations to the couple and thank you @vows.ventures!

Bride: @oliviarmurray
Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Photo: @LaneCarolinePhotography
Planning: @vows.ventures
Catering: @thepineapplecaper
Ceremony and Cocktail Hour Music: @capecodstringquartet
DJ: @capetunes
Florals: @danielsonflowers
Hair & Makeup: @dollhouse.cc
Dessert: @riseandshine.treats

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An intimate Cape Cod wedding, at one of my favorite venues in my hometown, on a perfectly beautiful September day 🤍

The Osterville Historical Museum is classic Cape Cod at its best, with the most stunning grounds and the kind of setting that doesn’t need much else!!

About 50 of their favorite people. Family. The best of friends. Eight wicked cute nephews. And a bride who ditched the traditional getting-ready photos because she’d rather spend that time getting more photos with her besties 👏🏼 a wedding day is all about YOU and what means most to you!

Lots of love, a whole lot of laughter, and all the little in-between moments that make a wedding feel like you.

THIS is what I love to capture. The real stuff. The people you love most. The happy tears, the belly laughs, the hugs, and true love on a beautiful day.

Give me an intimate Cape Cod wedding like this any day!! 🤍

venue @ostervillemuseum // planner @vows.ventures // photo @lanecarolinephotography // flowers @danielsonflowers // dance floor @simplyborrowedeventrentals // catering @thepineapplecaper // entertainment @capecodstringquartet @capetunes // beauty @dollhouse.cc // dress @carbonneaubridalandformalwear // cake @riseandshine.treats

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Clair & Jacob’s wedding a night to remember from START to FINISH! 💃🕺🎉 What a fun crowd of people!

Congratulations to you two 💍.

Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Planner: @everafterweddingco
Photographer: @emilymccaffertyphotography

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82 years ago today, a hurricane erased a mansion from Dowses Beach.

On September 14, 1944, the Great Atlantic Hurricane struck Cape Cod with destructive winds and storm-driven flooding that devastated low-lying parts of Osterville.

At the time, Dowses wasn’t a public beach. The point at East Bay was the Dowse family estate, with a waterfront mansion roughly where the bathhouse is today.

William B.H. Dowse was a Harvard-educated patent lawyer and businessman who married Fanny Reed, daughter of Henry G. Reed of @reedandbarton. After Reed’s death, Dowse became president of the famed silver company and helped modernize and expand it.

He was the Wianno Yacht Club’s first recorded commodore (1913-15), and in 1913 he and Henry Day approached H. Manley Crosby about creating the one-design sailboat that became the Wianno Senior.

The estate had an impressive design pedigree as well. Records at @olmstednhs show that Olmsted Brothers - the landscape architecture firm led by Frederick Law Olmsted’s sons - worked on the Dowse estate in 1909-11 and again in 1920.

Then came the hurricane. The storm lifted the mansion from its foundation and carried it into East Bay. The family chose not to rebuild. Remarkably, a pianoforte recovered from the house survived and is now preserved by @ostervillemuseum.

Across Osterville, more than 60 feet of Wianno Beach was lost and hundreds of trees came down. At @crosbyyachtyard, floodwater lifted stored boats off their blocks. At the time, storage was just $5 per month. Shoaling also changed where Wianno Senior races could begin. JFK’s own Wianno Senior, Victura - built by Crosby’s - survived the hurricane after he dragged it onto a beach to save it.

After the storm, German POWs held at nearby Camp Edwards helped with cleanup. The Wianno Club sold “Hurricane Notes” to fund shoreline work; Barnstable covered 15% and the state 50%.

The Dowse family gave the land to the town, which spent about $30,000 creating the public Dowses Beach generations of Osterville residents know today.

Hard to imagine all of this sitting where we now park, swim, and watch the sunset.

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Happy wedding weekend to Erin and John! 🩵
Such a beautiful night for a welcome party at the Osterville Historical Society!
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A moment for this bouquet 🤍

This was such a special one. Not only was this bouquet created for a dear friend, but we had the honor of incorporating her grandfather’s handkerchief and her grandmother’s pearls into the design—such a beautiful way to carry a little piece of them with her on her wedding day.

Photographer: @e.talbotphotography
Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Dress: @hohbridal

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Last weekend with Natalie & Patrick 🤍 A quintessential cape wedding filled with sunshine, lobster dinners, hydrangeas, and a wholeeee lot of love 🫶🏼

Venue: @ostervillemuseum
Florals: @floral_esthetics
Catering: @clambakesetc
Makeup: @byjuliadesimone
Hair: @studio_53salonandspa
DJ: @djmistahclean

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The most perfect, effortless & glowing bride - Natalie 🤍💫

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