HMS Nimrod's Shot

Myrna Katz Frommer continued, "With Jim standing guard, we both went into the men's room to take a peek. And there it was, decidedly out of place behind a little door set into the blank white bathroom wall.."

The wall wasn't a bathroom back then. It was on the exterior of a small 17th century harbor-front home. Later, it was picked up and moved, hole and all, to Main Street beside a larger 18th century house.

In 1922, both buildings were put on rollers and pulled by a team of 8 horses to a two acre site on Dillingham Avenue where they were combined into a single residence. Then later it became a guest house and then a semi-private club.

In the 1970s it was converted into a restaurant named for the ship that fired the cannonball, the Nimrod.

Jim Murray bought it in 1995 and it is named the Nimrod Restaurant and Jazz Lounge at 100 Dillingham Avenue in Falmouth, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod).

Using the Bathroom By a Piece of History. --Brock-Perry