Perry's Store

Perry's Store was a store and lunch room on the Middlesex Turnpike at Nuttings Lake, on lot 201 of Nuttings Lake Park at the corner of Lake Street, the site of the present 512 Middlesex Turnpike. It was kept by Leslie B. Perry and his wife Mary G. Perry of Cambridge, who bought the lot in January 1915 and mortgaged it with its buildings the next month. Postcards of the store show a long porch along the turnpike with signs reading "Nuttings Lake Post Office", "Boats to Let" and "Lunch" and a Bell System public telephone sign, so the store also served as the lake's post office and rented boats. Mrs. Perry, by then Mrs. Frank J. Higgins, sold the lot in 1924. The building later housed the Turnpike Spa.