Perkins Cove - Ogunquit, Maine
Lobster Shack. Pekins Cove - Ogunquit, Maine. Before becoming a restaurant the building was a simple lobstermens shack which was used for storage of traps, rope, buoys, and other fishing equipment. The structure was built around 1900 and many of the original building materials can still be seen today.
Over time the shack was updated and added to, but was still little more than a storage shed, with no running water, heat, or electricity.
For the summer of 1947 the building was converted to a restaurant called Maxwell Perkins Lobster Pound. At that time the only menu items were lobster and steamers, and if you wanted butter with them, it was extra. Customers could eat at one of the few tables inside or eat outside on lobster traps set up in the sand and gravel that covered most of Perkins Cove at the time.
Check out the lobster rolls and chowder. :-)
Perkins Cove - Ogunquit, Maine
Lobster Shack. Pekins Cove - Ogunquit, Maine. Before becoming a restaurant the building was a simple lobstermens shack which was used for storage of traps, rope, buoys, and other fishing equipment. The structure was built around 1900 and many of the original building materials can still be seen today.
Over time the shack was updated and added to, but was still little more than a storage shed, with no running water, heat, or electricity.
For the summer of 1947 the building was converted to a restaurant called Maxwell Perkins Lobster Pound. At that time the only menu items were lobster and steamers, and if you wanted butter with them, it was extra. Customers could eat at one of the few tables inside or eat outside on lobster traps set up in the sand and gravel that covered most of Perkins Cove at the time.
Check out the lobster rolls and chowder. :-)