2 Best Sights in New Jersey Shore, New Jersey

Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC)

Peer into the life of the Victorian elite during a 45-minute tour of the 18-room mansion built in 1879 for Emlen Physick, a nonpracticing physician (courtesy of a family inheritance) who lived with his mother and maiden aunt. The mansion's timber-outline exterior is in Stick Style, avant-garde for its day. Guides point out original furnishings and discuss period customs and clothing. Most tours can be combined with trolley rides through Cape May's Historic District and, on Fridays, tours have a family focus. Take time for afternoon tea or a light lunch at the Twining's Tearoom, in the estate's carriage house. Entrance to the adjacent Carriage House Gallery is included in the tour price.

Historic Home
1048 Washington St., Cape May, New Jersey, 08204, USA
609-884–5404
www.capemaymac.org
Sights Details
Rate Includes: $10 adults, $5 children ages 3–12 (one child free with every adult admission for \"Family Friday\" tours), Mid-June–mid-Sept., daily 9:30–5; mid-Sept.–Dec., daily 11–4; Jan.–mid-Mar., weekends 10–3; mid-Mar.–Apr., Sun.–Fri. 11–3, Sat. 10–5; May–mid-June, daily 10:30–4:30

Spring Lake Community House

Built in the early 1900s as a family mansion, the community house was donated to the town in 1923. Today it hosts civic events and houses the Spring Lake Theater Company and the Children's Theater Workshop and Dance School. On the northeast side is the town library, featuring a dark, European reading room with a huge fireplace to warm by in winter, and a book-lined gallery.