Overview
The Waterford Inn opened its doors for the first time in 2009 after extensive renovations to the main guest house, Café, Tavern and Daily Dose juice and food bar with the goal to provide uncommonly distinctive Provincetown hospitality.
The Waterford has a lucky number 13 of deluxe rooms and water view suites tastefully decorated in cool, soothing tones and contemporary décor to help you relax completely. All rooms and suites have private baths, flat screen TVs, MP3 docks, wireless broadband, and air conditioning. Many rooms include spectacular views of the harbor, water, town, library, historic Pilgrim monument, lush Inn gardens, spa tubs, and personal refrigerators.
The Waterford parlor and breakfast room takes advantage of the original features of the spectacular Captain’s House originally built in 1860 including a one-of-a-kind stained glass door. The main rooms provide a great place to relax, read, meet up with friends, and of course, enjoy our scrumptious breakfast served daily. The outdoor gardens and patio offer the most relaxing of quiet areas where a daily reception will allow our guests to migrate from day to evening activities with distinctive wines, libations and munchies.
The Waterford Café is open year-round and boasts one of the town’s most distinctive dining experiences with a menu of “comfort food inspired by the sea” ™. Enjoy our wonderful and relaxing service indoor or outdoor including fresh local seafood, wood-fired pizzas, gourmet vegetarian selections and succulent, savory meats. The Café is open for a casual lunch, dinner and late night dining.
The Waterford Tavern offers Provincetown one of the liveliest spots in town to relax and enjoy one of our fine wines, gently mixed martinis and draft beers. From our wonderful Commercial Street Tavern room to our upstairs harbor view deck with baby grand piano, our guests will be able to enjoy a great atmosphere with friends, neighbors and guests! Come one, come all!
Daily Dose rounds out the wonderful offerings at The Waterford. Daily Dose offers take out of healthy eats, smoothies and juices with herbal supplements as well as sinful treats. If you are looking to be very good or very bad, Daily Dose will serve you up a little bit of both. Daily Dose will also be offering beach baskets and sunset baskets for those trying to maximize the fun and have a complete meal to take along!
The Waterford Inn, Café and Tavern as well as Daily Dose front bustling Commercial Street with its restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, Johnson Street Beach, and more just a few steps away!
History
Originally built in the 1860s as a guest residence for Captain Lavender, The Waterford has been used as a guest house since under a variety of names and owners. On January 22, 2009, the guest house became The Waterford.
Captain Lavender was born in Provincetown on the point of Cape Cod, August 22, 1842. It was there that the Pilgrims first landed after crossing the Atlantic in the Mayflower, but, finding that the Indians in that locality were troublesome they made their way across the bay to land at Plymouth Rock. Captain Lavender’s father was a sympathizer of the British during the Revolutionary War and went into self-exile in Nova Scotia at the end of the war. Later, the Lavender family returned and settled in Cape Cod. Captain Lavender was actively connected with seafaring from the age of eight or nine years, and yet is frank enough to confess that he never left port without being seasick. However, he loved to tell the townspeople of his many adventures and was known to always draw a crowd, a spirit that we hope to capture at The Waterford.
From early boyhood he went with fishing fleets to the banks of Newfoundland and, working his way upward, was for thirteen years in command of vessels. For ten years he represented the same firm, sailing out of New York, and he had visited every port of any importance on the five continents, in Australia and in the islands of the South Sea. His many years of life at sea at length affected his throat and while at Buenos Aires, South America, his voice was lost completely as a result of bronchitis. A sea captain without a voice is like a ship without a rudder and so he decided to quit the sea for a time.
Captain Lavender and his family sold the Provincetown house and left for the Dakotas where his voice recovered. Captain Lavender returned to sea life for a brief time being the Paymaster for the Navy, the only civilian appointed to this point for the position, during the Spanish-American War. He never returned to Provincetown, yet his spirit of adventure and desire to reminisce with friends lives on at The Waterford.
A portrait of the Captain and his wife can be found in the Breakfast Room.
