Old Cape Cod is a classic American history/New England history text by Mary Rogers Bangs that deals with the history of Cape Cod. This fascinating US history books contains this snippet: Cape Cod had its Age of Romance in a half-century best placed, perhaps, in the years between 1790 and 1840. Then certainly the picture of it was charming: a picture unblemished by the paper-box architecture of a later period, or the alien hotels, the villas, bungalows,...