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5 drawings
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10 b&w photos
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2 data pages
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3 photo caption pages
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5 color transparencies


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TITLE:
Chalfonte Hotel, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May County, NJ

CALL NUMBER:
HABS NJ,5-CAPMA,36-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 5  (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 10   (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 1 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 3
Color Transparencies: 5

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Sawyer, Henry
Price, Virginia B., transmitter
Hoachlander, Anice, photographer
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter

NOTE:
Survey number HABS NJ-743

Building/structure dates: 1876 initial construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000383

Significance: Originally built as a private house, the building was later converted to hotel use. The Chalfonte is Cape May's oldest and most ornate large.

SUBJECTS:
NEW JERSEY--Cape May County--Cape May
hotels
travel

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nj0018

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
10. SOUTHWEST FRONT, FROM THE SOUTH
11. SOUTHWEST FRONT, FROM THE SOUTH, VIEW SHOWING AWNINGS
12. SOUTHEAST SIDE FROM THE NORTHEAST
13. SOUTHEAST SIDE, DETAIL OF AN ENTRANCE BAY
14. PORCH, DETAIL OF BALUSTRADE

CONTROL #:
NJ0018

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