Wednesday, June 18, MM

Over 50 Builduigs on This Year's Old House Tour

The Herald and The Lantern

Page 9

The 32nd Annual Old House Tour of the Cape May County Art League will be to to 4 Saturday, and Sunday, Julv 12 and 13.' Featured will be 72 homes, churches and public builders July 12 in Upper and Dennis township and Cape May Court House; there will be 27 open the next day in Lower Towaship, Cape May City, West Cape May and Cape May Point. The tour covered over 250 yeaw of county living from the simple cottages and quaint country churches of early settlers to Victorian houses and spacious beachfront summer homes. IIIGHLIGIIT OF the July 12 tour is a section of tuckahoe known as ‘•Marshall-ville" where a group of four houses on Marshallville rd. by the Tuckahoe River will be open In the early 1800s Randall Marshall established a glass

ebusiness, and the village was built around the glass works behind his brick home, built in 1840. The three other houses are open for the first time on the tour.. In fSeaville, the Friends’ Meeting House now being enlarged has been open on every tour since the first. The Second Cape May Baptist Church in Palermo celebrates its 210th anniversary this year. THE POPULAR Dennisville area will again be on the initial, tour. A new feature is a bird carver’s shop, and a house built in the early 1700s and now being restored. launches may be purchased at the social hall of the Dennisville United Methodist Church, starting at Ham The John Holmes House, the County Museum, will give slide shows on the old cedarshingle industry. A bus will leave Cape May July 12 for an all-day

trip along the tour route. Reservations must be made in advance for this trip by calling the Art League at 884-8628 Deadline for reservations is July 9. Five homes and two hotel buildings never before on the tour can be seen in the Greater Cape May area on the second tour. In Lower Township, site of the first settlement on the cape, two small whalers’ cottages — possibly the oldest surviving houses in the county — will be on the tour once again. A new feature will be the studio home of a sculptress in Fishing Creek. IN CAPE MAY. the National landmark City, eleven building* are within easy walking distance of each other ahd are located close to the Washington Mall. The newly refur bished Civic Center on Franklin Street will have an exhibition of

photographs of old Cape May and items from the Volunteer Fire Company’s collection, including an old engine to be displayed on the grounds There will be an exhibit of work by members of the Philadelphia Water Color Club in the Carriage House galleries of the Art League, at 1050 Washington St. In West Cape May. a formal Victorian home will be open for the first time Two churches and two homes will be open in Cape May Point, including a contemporary, house completed just this year. Ticket donations are $5 per person each day for those 13 years of age and older, and adults; and SI for those 12 years and under. They may be purchased in advance at the

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Plan For Tourism To Air N. WILDWOOD - The man described as the chief architect of the N.J. Tourism Master Plan for the t9B0s is scheduled to address a Cape May County Chamber of Commerce gathering tnm nr row. Larry Williams of the state’s Div. of Travel and Tourism will be the guest speaker for the monthly meeting of the Chamber's Board of Directors meeting beginning at noon at Garrabrant's Restaurant, 2nd and New York Aves. here. .Mr. Williams will discuss the recency released master plan for tourism, and a special invitation has gone out to interested Chamber members to attend on a reservation basis by calling the Chamber office (465-7181) no later than today. The state’s proposed Pinelands Management Plan and the proposed Dune and Shorefront Protection Act will also be discussed during the meeting.

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