This storehouse was built around the same time period that the second story of the house was added. It was certainly not the first storehouse built on the property but it is one of the only ones that still stands. It has had many uses. It was used to store thousands of pounds of fruit for the Ortiz family in the 1800s. Mary Cabot Wheelwright stored her spare generator here and converted the side near the road into a garage for her horse drawn carriages and personal motor vehicles. In the 1980s, for a short time, it functioned as an art studio and gallery for the property owner at that time.

These doors into the storehouse are located on the eastern side of the building. The door with the stars on it is much older and dates to the period when the storehouse was originally built. The less symmetric door dates to the 1940s and was commissioned by Mary Cabot Wheelwright as a decorative addition to the storehouse.

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Storehouses and outbuildings like this almacen provide a wealth of information for historians and archaeologists about the time period they were built in and show what was valued by what was stored.