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Emlen Physick Estate

Houses / Mansions, Cape May

Fodor's Review:

Peer into the life of the Victorian elite during a 45-minute tour of the 18-room mansion built in 1879 for Emlen Physick, a nonpracticing physician (courtesy of a family inheritance) who lived with his mother and maiden aunt. The mansion's timber-outline exterior is in stick style, avant-garde for its day. Guides point out original furnishings and discuss period customs. Take time for afternoon tea or a light lunch at the Twining's Tearoom, in the estate's carriage house. Entrance to the adjacent Carriage House Gallery is included in the tour price. The estate is home office to the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC), the nonprofit organization formed in 1970 to save the mansion from the wood pile; it now promotes restoration throughout Cape May.

INFO

Address: 1048 Washington St., Cape May, NJ
Phone: 609/884-5404; 800/275-4278
Web site
Cost: House tour $8, gallery $2
Open: Mid-June-mid-Sept., daily 9:30-5; mid-Sept.-Dec., daily 11-4; Jan.-mid-Mar., weekends 10-3; mid-Mar.-Apr., Sun.-Fri. 11-3, Sat. 10-5; May-mid-June, daily 10:30-4:30

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