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Tours Highlight Memorial Day

CAPE MAY - A Spring House Tour will open 13 of this Victorian city's famous restored homes, guest houses and hotels to the public. Running noon to 4 p.m., this event is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts as a benefit for its summer Theater by the Sea program. Tickets may be purchased the day of the tour at : the Physick Estate. 1048 Washington St. ; at all participating houses (displaying orange banners); and at the Fireman's Museum, corner of Washington and Franklin streets (10 a.m. -2 p.m.) THE TOUR will include: The Kosak House, 917 Washington St. (built 1888). This Victorian Eclectic home of Mary and Peter Kosak was built by Horace Church in 1888 and features an original oak stairway. Recently redecorated by the Kosaks, who purchased the home in July 1985, it is now furnished with colonial touches. The Duke of Windsor Inn (1896), 817 Washington St. Built in 1896, the inn has the fine paneled woodwork and rich detailing to be found in the spacious homes of the period. Ornate plaster ceilings are a striking feature. There are hand-carved oak mantels on the corner fireplaces and lion's head carvings on the newel posts of the stairway that is open to the third floor. THE WEBER HOUSE (circa 1870), 633 Hughes St.: This Stick Style house was built for Memucan Hughes on land that was formerly part of the Hughes Plantation. It features hooded dormers, large hanging pendants, and a charming streetside balcony. It is now the home of Lee C. Weber. The Manor House (1906), 612 Hughes St. This recently restored turn-of-the-century home combines Victorian elegance and country comfort in a bed-and-break-fast inn operated by Tom and Mary Snyder. Tradition has it that the home was built in 1906 as a wedding present for the daughter of a prominent New York family. Its style is Colonial Revival and it has a gambrel roofline. THE SUMMER Cottage Inn (circa 1867), 613 Colbumia Ave. Designed in the Italianate style, complete with cupola, by Stephen Decatur Button, The Summer Cottage Inn was built circa 1867. It was the private summer residence of the Samuel A. Harrison family of Philadelphia and was retained as a private home until the 1900s, when it served as a restaurant and then as a guesthouse for many years. Now a Bed and Breakfast Inn, it is being restored by

Nancy Rishforth and Bill March. THE BRASS BED (1872), 719 Columbia Ave., an attractive Gothic Revival style cottage, has recently undergone restoration. "Earth ton8" exterior painting is typical of 19th Century style which dramatizes wooden ornamental detail. It is now the Bed and Breakfast Inn of the Dunwoody family. The Carroll Residence or "The Vinyl Villa", 704 Columbia Ave., built in the 1950's as a simple seashore cottage. Tom and Sue Carroll have recently redecorated it in a homey, eclectic style. Collections of old prints and contemporary Cape May scenes adorn the walls. Furnishings are a mixture of traditional styles and Victorian antiques, several of which are family pieces. THE CHALFONTE Hotel ( 1876), 301 Howard St. Cape May's oldest hotel has welcomed guests every summer since it was built in 1876 by Civil War hero, Col. Henry Sawyer. Ornately trimmed with carved gingerbread between the arches and columns of its gracious twostory porches, the Chalfonte has a traditional Southern elegance in its architecture, inviting guests to enjoy the simple pleasures of another era. The original public rooms include the lobby, reading room, writing room, dining room and King Edward's Bar, all recently restored by University of Maryland architectural students. Present owners are Judy Bartella and Anne LeDuc. THE SEA HOLLY Inn (1875), 815 Stockton Ave This guest house was originally built as a summer Gothic cottage, with Italianate detailing. After many years of neglect, the house was purchased in 1985 by Ron and Marge Bozarth, who have restored the exterior and the interior to its graceful Victorian past. The house is furnished with authentic Renaissance Revival and Eastlake period furnishings. The Bedford (circa 1875), 805 Stockton Ave., a symmetrical Italianate bracketed cottage with large twostory porches across the front. Originally a "motherdaughter" double house, it has been restored and filled with period Victorian antiques by Alan and Cindy Schmucker and is being run as a guest house. An interesting feature is the wide central double stairway. THE MOORING Guest House (1882), 801 Stockton Ave. In 1882 Joseph F. Page, Philadelphia industrialist, built this beautiful home for his family and friends to spend their summer holidays. The large, airy rooms off the center hall, and central staircase, were typical

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of Stephen Decatur Button designs in the late 1800s. French doors leading to upper and lower verandas were for looking out to sea. or just sitting enjoying the ocean breezes, and they make thft home perfect for one of Cape May's original guest houses. Hosts are Harry and Carol Schaefer. THE MILLER House, 1210 Maryland Ave. The home of Ann and Charles C. Miller is an early 40s summer cottage, remodeled into a year-round retirement home. Here one sees a potpourri of art, including a table set with American pressed glass of Horseshoe or Good Luck pattern, circa 1860. Visitors exit through the kitchen and the back door to the Herb Garden.

Colvmns by the Sea (circa 1905), 1513 Beach Dr. (between Brooklyn and Baltimore Streets) . Colvmns by the Sea was constructed in true Victorian spirit with fluted columns, colonial revival accents, and an Italian palazzo verandah. The interior, decorated with period furniture, is highlighted by a three-story staircase, carved wainscoting and coffered ceilings. Dr. Davis, a Philadelphia physician, built this 20-room summer cottage as part of a grand plan to "modernize" Cape May's image to compete with fashionable Atlantic City. Hosts are Barry and Cathy Rein. For further information on this house tour or other Memorial Day Weekend events, call 884-5404

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