Cahoon Museum

The Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts was founded in 1984 and has eight galleries within a 1775 Georgian Colonial home.

Highlights of the permanent collection include the works of Cape Cod artists Ralph Cahoon and Martha Cahoon and other prominent 19th Century American artwork by Ralph Blakelock, William Bradford, James Buttersworth, John J. Enneking, Alvan Fisher, Levi Wells Prentice and William Matthew Prior. Seven or eight special exhibitions over the year cover the whole range of American Art. The Museum also has a charming gift shop, Mermaids Cove. Open year round (except January) Hours are Tues-Sat 10am-4pm and Sunday 1-4pm. The museum is located on 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

The stately Cape Cod Colonial building that now houses the Cahoon Museum of American Art was one of seven homesteads in Cotuit built by Ebenezer Crocker in the second half of the 18th century. The house was built about 1775 and can best be described as a Palladian or Georgian style house. Although this style was being replaced by the Federal style at the time of the Revolution in more “refined” parts of New England, Cape Cod was just adopting the Georgian style. This typical Georgian Cape Cod house is distinguished by its symmetrical placement of doors and windows and by a doorway capped with a pediment. The house also features small-paned flat-topped windows and gable roof. Clapboard is used to cover the exterior which emphasizes the horizontal lines of the design. The dark red paint of the clapboard simulate the brick of more cosmopolitan homes off-Cape. The white trim highlights the symmetrical placement of doors and windows. In the interior, there is a heavy use of paneled woodwork, including doors, wainscoting and sometimes entire walls, especially the fireplace wall. Mantelpieces appeared in only the finest homes of this period, but were often added at a later time, as was done in this house.

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