In 1885 Captain L.D. Baker bought Mercantile Wharf, no longer needed for much diminished fishing trade and converted it for use as The Chequesset Inn. Extending four hundred feet into Cape Cod Bay, each of the sixty two rooms had a water view. Staffed each summer by employees from his winter season Titchfield Hotel in Jamaica, the Inn became a popular resort for tourists arriving by train from all over New England. Bayside bathing, hiking on the dunes, and sailing at the Yacht Club, also founded by Captain Baker, were popular vacation activities.
During the unusually cold winter of 1934, Wellfleet Harbor froze solid and wind-driven chunks of ice demolished the foundations of the wharf. The Inn fell into the Bay, leaving only the pilings now visible only at low tide.
On a boulder where Kendrick Avenue
turns at Keller’s Corner
turns at Keller’s Corner
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