07/31/2026
Amazing!
Circuit Ave., Cottage City (Oak Bluffs), probably 1880s or 1890s. From left to right: the Pawnee House, the Metropolitan Hotel, and the Oakwood (where today stands Eastaway, the Corner Store, and the empty lot once containing Phillips Hardware.) The ground floor of the Metropolitan was occupied for decades by Norton’s Pharmacy and Rausch’s ice cream parlor. The top stories of the Pawnee house were removed in the mid-1950s, but its first floor survives today.