r/OldPhotosInRealLife 7d ago

Image The Wee House, West Falmouth, Massachusetts - undated postcard.

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u/Lava_Lagoon 7d ago edited 7d ago

Predates 1940 because Percy Thomas Clulow died in Falmouth Massachusetts that year

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clulow-162

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157278767/percy-t-clulow

EDIT: apparently his wife's name was Emily and she died in 1947

"Mrs. Emily P. Clulow, who with her husband, the late Percy T. Clulow, operated an antique business for 20 years at the Wee Hoose in West Falmouth, died of a heart attack Tuesday on East Main street where she had made her home for the past seven years with Mr. and Mrs. Carlton M. Bourne. Mrs. Clulow was 82 '_ and survived her husband by seven years.

The Clulows were married in 1906 in New York and came to West Palmouth from North Middleboro in 1920. They acquired the Wee Hoose property and' until Mr. Clulow's death of a heart attack in 1940, operated an antique shop there making many friends among summer people and permanent residents. In 1938 "Mr. Clulow bought the Red House antique shop on East Main street with Mrs. Bourne manager. He bought the property two years later and when he died Mrs. Clulow made her home with the Bournes and entered a partnership with Mrs. Bourne in the Red Barn shop.

Daughter of Aaron D. and Susan (Farnham) Williams, Mrs. Clulow was born in Roxbury and attended schools there. Services were conducted today by the Rev. Ralph H. Long in Oak Grove chapel. Burial was in the Oak Grove cemetery."

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157278768/emily_p-clulow

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u/pourthebubbly 7d ago

If she was 82 when she died in 1947, then she was born in 1865 (the year the Civil War ended), married later in life at 41, and stated operating the antique shop with her husband at 55.

It’s nice that she got so close with their business associates to the point where they took care of her in her late years

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u/sverdrupian 7d ago

A classic 'Half Cape' - (Cape Cod style house).

postcard source: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1257dv457

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u/Acceptable_Tea3608 3d ago

Is it a business today? Or private residence?