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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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