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Wooden Rabbit: Federal vernacular looks much the same as when it was built in 1838
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Windward House: 1905; Late Victorian designed to blend with seashore; varied window designs
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Wilbraham Mansion: 1840; simple farm house Victorianized with added wing
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White Dove Cottage: Built in 1866, the house is second empire style with a beautiful mansard roof faced with original octagonal slate tiles
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Whaler's Cottage: originally 1680 and one of oldest occupied buildings in Cape May; front added 1870s
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West Cape May Shingle Style
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West Cape May house
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Wedding Cake House; simple Federal vernacular frame hosue gussied up 30 years later
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Washington Street Mall Information Booth: Guardhouse at Philadelphia 1876 Centennial in Stick Style
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Virginia Hotel: Small hotel of a kind that was once much more widespread; this white-porched Italianate dates to 1879
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Victorian built in 1986
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Union Chapel: 1872
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The Queen Victoria: 1881 with projecting mansard roof
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The Pink House: 1892, said to have fanciest porch trim in Cape May; in its day would not have been pink; Victorians favored earthier tones
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The Merry Widow: began as simple farm house but roof added in 18979 and towers shipped here
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The Mainstay Inn: 1872 by Stephen Button; Italianate gentlema's gambling club known as Jackson's Club House
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The Linda Lee: More 1870s Cape May Gothic/Italianate tract housing
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The Abbey: varied roofs and patterns in gables
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The Abbey: 1869 Greek Revival by Stephen Button for PA coal baron George McCleary
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The Abbey: 60-foot tower
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Swain's Hardware: established 1896
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Summer Cottage Inn: one of three identical Italianates by Button on Columbia Avenue
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Sugarplum Cottage: Simple1880s Victorian, probably from a pattern book, as was popular after the Great Fire of 1878
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Store in continuous use since 1850
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Stockton Row Cottages: built in 1869 for Stockton Hotel, largest in world at time with 475 rooms; razed in 1910
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Steiner Cottages: twin antebellum cottages built from Gothic pattern book design are Cape May's earliest summer cottages
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Spicer Leaming House: Another example of the Gothic/Italianate hybrid with elaborate porch trim
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Southern Mansion: 1863 by Samuel Sloan for George Allen of Cape May's first railroad
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Southern Mansion; one of only two houses in Cape May on more than one acre
