Nantucket, West Live Cam

A little bit of this…a little bit of that. And some of it isn’t really trivia.

Did you know that there used to be a dwelling on Front and Broadway in Siasconset called the Headache House? According to Early Nantucket and Its Whale Houses, by Henry Chandlee, just to the north of the George Gardner house and on the same lot “once stood a long, narrow dwelling with gable-ends facing Broadway and Front Street. This was called Headache House because of its incurably smoking chimney.”