- Introduction
- Early Years
- Fishing and Whaling
- The Guano Company
- The Fish Market
- Stores and Markets
- Drug Stores
- Garages and Parking Lots
- Coal
- Restaurants, Ice Cream Parlors, Bars
- Tea Rooms
- Hotels and Boarding Houses
- The Breakwater Hotel
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- Walter Luscombe, Entrepreneur
- Franklin Gifford, Painter
- Michael Walsh, Gardener
- Barbers
- Blacksmiths
- Carpenters
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- About
Tea Rooms
Tea rooms were very popular with ladies in the early years of the 1900s. On Water Street, where the present Fishmonger restaurant (now the Water Street Kitchen) is located, there was a tea room called the Sea Robin. Tea rooms in private homes were popular too – Mrs. Robinson ran one on lower Quissett Avenue and Klara Fish and her sisters-in-law Florence and Josephine Fish ran the Little Harbor Tea Room in an old family house facing Little Harbor.
Mrs. Robinson's Tea Room, Quissett Avenue, c. 1912. It was in the house behind the ladies. Caroline Bigelow Collection.