Located in historic Sunset Park in beautiful Wilmington, North Carolina, the cottage started its life in the early 1940's as a single room fishing shack that was constructed on the north end of Carolina Beach, about 20 minutes away. Years later the house was moved to its current location and a small addition and bathroom were added making the house a grand total of 600 sq ft (tiny house living at it's best!). Eventually the house became home to WM Register, a tug boat captain that worked his days on the Cape Fear River, and his wife, Gladys, hence the name Capt.'s Cottage.
This little house has lots of character in a small space and it's the very last of the old fishing shacks that dotted the NC coast a hundred years ago when the only way to reach Carolina Beach was by train from the "mainland of Wilmington.