The
Cape May Historic District is an area of with over 600 buildings in the
resort town of
Cape May,
Cape May County,
New Jersey. The city claims to be America's first seaside resort and has numerous buildings in the
Late Victorian style, including the Eclectic,
Stick, and
Shingle styles, as well as the later Bungalow style. According to
National Park Service architectural historian Carolyn Pitts, "Cape May has one of the largest collections of late 19th century frame buildings left in the United States... that give it a homogeneous architectural character, a kind of textbook of vernacular American building."