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Dancing Mother is a historic object located at 460 Commercial St in Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1956, designed by Chaim Gross. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Provincetown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Dancing Mother is a historical marker in Provincetown, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.0562, -70.1794 near Provincetown. The nearest cataloged historic site is Dance Rhythm (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Torso, Bush, William House, and Commercial Building at 465 Commercial St.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
"Dancing Mother" is an outdoor sculpture at 460 Commercial Street in Provincetown's East End, long a summer artists' colony. It is the work of the American sculptor Chaim Gross, recorded here to about 1956, and reflects the modernist art scene that flourished in Provincetown in the mid-twentieth century. The piece is a contributing feature of the town's National Register historic district.
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