Who Will Buy the Captain Warren House?
Edgartown is about to issue a request for proposals to purchase the long-vacant North Water Street property, formerly part of an inn. What would you like to see there? Share your visions in our comments section.
Edgartown's white elephant, the long-vacant Captain Warren House, will soon be up for sale again, with no minimum listing price and a June 1 deadline for offers. Purchased by town taxpayers in 2004 for $3.5 million, the three-story structure built in 1850 proved to be inadequate for its intended purpose as a new home for the Edgartown Public Library next door. The increasingly decrepit Warren House, last used as an annex for the long-closed Daggett House Inn, received no bids the last time the town offered it for sale. In a "market value opinion" report from January, 2012, Ronald Mechur of Land Planners, Appraisals & Consultants in Oak Bluffs writes that the Warren House and the 13,262-square-foot on which it sits could be sold in various …
Louisa Hufstader
10:01 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Historically, this has been a business area as well: The Daggett House building across across the street was a tavern in the 1600s, a store in the 1700s, and a sailor's boarding house before it became a private home in the 1800s, then an inn for much of the 20th century; only in recent years has it become a private home again. The Warren House was an annex for the Daggett House; the owners' son … more ›