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Northshore October 2025
"This building was built in the 1900s,” says owner Patrick Hurd, ushering me into 51 Rocky Neck Restaurant, in Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Art Colony. The space, Hurd notes, was purchased in 1920 by Hugh Henry Breckenridge, an American painter who studied under Monet and who founded the Breckenridge School of Art in Gloucester, where he taught summer classes until 1937. Upon purchasing the building, Breckenridge cut through the rafters, had the roof lifted, and installed a massive piece of glass, allowing in the northern light so that his students could paint. “Winslow Homer painted out of this building,” Hurd says. “Monet came to visit
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