In 1886, 6 Conant Street was home to Captain Joseph C. Smith, a mariner, possibly the Joseph Smith, aged 21, listed as living there in the 1850 Census, together with his parents John (56) and Lucy (51) and his brother Francis (14) and sister Lucy (9). The house was then valued at $600.
According to Building Provincetown:
A full Cape house from the period between 1840 and 1860, according to the Historic District Survey. Judith Romanowski and Carolyn Lekavich acquired it in 2010 from Francis X. McCauley, according to the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds and the Assessor’s Online Database.
This was the home from the 1940s through the early 1960s, at least, of the Santos family. Born in Provincetown, John Richard Santos (±1887-1952) was a weir fisherman whose father, Joseph, had come from São Miguel and whose mother, Emily (Tarvers) Santos, was a Provincetown native. He was married to Rose (Viera) Santos (b ±1897). Their son, Richard, was teaching at Provincetown High School at the time of John’s death, in this house.
