The Museum Store is located in the Captain Jonathan Parker House on the Museum’s campus at the corner of Parker and West Bay Roads, Osterville, MA.  It features a wide variety of items reflecting Osterville’s long history as a maritime, boat building, fishing, farming and recreational seaside community.  These include books on the history of the village and the building and sailing of the vintage boats identified with it.

The Museum Store is always open during regular Museum hours and usually between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays throughout the year.  We suggest you call the number below, however, before making a special trip for an off-season visit.

A very small sample of the store’s inventory is shown below.  To order, or for more information, please call 508-428-5861.  Or, you may simply send a check, payable to the Osterville Historical Society, adding a $2.00 shipping charge per item and 5% sales tax for Massachusetts residents to P.O. Box 3, Osterville, MA 02655.  Visa and MasterCard credit cards are accepted.

December Glow, 2005: From an original watercolor by Ted Bellingrath (1934-2005) of the Captain Jonathan Parker House. Sold in sets of 12.

$15.00

Osterville Historical Museum Hats: These salty Museum visor caps with an embroidered catboat design and adjustable headband may be ordered in either Nantucket Red or Cape Cod Blue.

$16.00

Osterville, Images of America, by Shirley Eastman: Two-hundred vintage photos tell the story of Osterville from the time hardy colonists, determined to make a living harvesting oysters, settled this tiny seaside village in the 1700s.

Osterville follows its evolution into a haven for captains of great merchant ships, a center for building Cape Cod catboats and Wianno Seniors by Crosby family boat shops and a summer playground for such storied families as the Mellons and DuPonts.

$19.99

Catboat Pins and Zipper Pulls: These replicas of a Cape Cod catboat  show the distinctive hull and sailing rig developed in the 1800’s for workboats and later into popular racing and recreational cruising vessels.

$10.00

The Boy, Me and the Cat, Cruise of the Mascot 1912 – 1913 by Henry M. Plummer: This turn of the century classic story (diary) about a father and son’s adventure sailing down the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts to Florida and back aboard a 24’ Cape Cod catboat appears in a newly enhanced edition which includes nearly 100 newly discovered photographs as well as many original drawings by the author.

$29.95

Catboat Stockings: These 6” virgin wool catboat design stockings are made in Maine especially for our Museum. Festive in green and red, they are perfect wraps for that special gift or trim on tree or wreath.

$10.00

Boxed Notecards (10) - Schooner, Frances Edwards – Captain Nathan West, Master: These notecards, blank inside, are quality reproductions of the oil on canvas by William P. Stubbs (American, 1842-1909) which hangs in the Captain Jonathan Parker House.

$12.00

Building the Crosby Cat by Barry Thomas: In this book Barry Thomas presents nearly lost knowledge of the methods used by the Crosby family to build catboats at Osterville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, between 1880 and 1935.

$9.95

Lady of the Sound – The Wianno Senior DVD: Lady of the Sound tells in image and sound the story of the Wianno Senior sailboat from the building of the first Seniors in 1913 to the devastating 2003 fire at the Crosby Yacht Yard and subsequent efforts to rebuild the fleet. (35 min.)

$29.95

“Three Bays” Tote Bag: These bags feature a nautical chart of Nantucket Sound showing the three bays area that defined much of Osterville’s history. Conveniently sized (15”W–14”H–4”D) for use around town or shipboard.