As printed on the site
Bed and breakfasts named in 2002
The 2002 page titled Historic Accommodations: Bed and Breakfast printed a list of names and nothing else beside them. No addresses, no telephone numbers, no rates, no years.
The list is a record of what that page showed. It is not a vacancy list, and it is not the “over 70” members from the about page. That count included guest houses, suites, apartments, and hotels as well as inns.
How the page was, and was not, a directory
A directory in the later, 2015 sense offered browsing by amenity and a search. This 2002 page offered names. A reader can look down the list and recognize The Abbey, the Queen Victoria, the Mainstay, Poor Richard’s Inn, Captain Mey’s Inn, the Duke of Windsor Inn. Recognition stops at the name. The page did not say which street any of them stood on, and the hotline page later said locations were not given out on the call either.
The title limits the list to bed and breakfast. It does not say these were the only members. The about page’s other kinds are simply absent here. Treating a missing hotel name as proof that hotels were not members would contradict the about page, which named historic hotels in the same breath as the inns. The two pages divide the labor. One counts the kinds. One prints inn names. The five kinds stay on their own page so this one does not pretend the list is complete for the association.
The home page does not turn the list into a set of links, because the inn pages are not in this archive. A linked name would imply a page this site does not have. The names below are text.
The names that page printed
There are 54 names. The count is a count of lines on that page, not a count of rooms and not the about page’s “over 70.” Spelling is the page’s spelling, including Pharo’s Inn and Beauclaire’s. Nothing here corrects an apostrophe or expands an abbreviation the page did not expand.
| The Abbey |
| Abigail Adams |
| The Albert Stevens Inn |
| Alexander's Inn |
| Bayberry Inn |
| Beauclaire's |
| The Bedford Inn |
| The Brass Bed |
| Buttonwood Manor |
| Canterbury Cottage |
| Captain Mey's Inn |
| The Cliveden Inn |
| The Dormer House |
| The Duke of Windsor Inn |
| The Fairthorne Inn |
| Gingerbread House |
| Henry Sawyer Inn |
| Humphrey Hughes House |
| Inn at 22 Jackson |
| Inn by the Silver Maple |
| Inn on Ocean |
| Inn at the Park |
| Jeremiah Hand House |
| John F. Craig House |
| John Wesley Inn |
| Kelly's Celtic Inn |
| King's Cottage |
| Leith Hall |
| The Linda Lee |
| Luther Ogden Inn |
| The Mainstay |
| The Manor House |
| The Manse |
| The Mason Cottage |
| The Mission Inn |
| The Moffitt House |
| The Mooring |
| Pharo's Inn |
| The Poet's Inn |
| Poor Richard's Inn |
| The Primrose Inn |
| Queen Victoria |
| Rhythm of the Sea |
| Saltwood House |
| Sea Holly |
| Sea Villa |
| The Summer Cottage |
| Twin Gables |
| Victorian Lace Inn |
| Victorian Rose |
| White Dove Cottage |
| Windward House |
| Wooden Rabbit |
| Woodleigh House |
The order is the order on the page, which is roughly alphabetical and not perfectly so. Buttonwood Manor follows The Brass Bed. Inn at 22 Jackson sits among the inns rather than under J. This site does not re-sort the names into a cleaner alphabet. A re-sort would be a new edition.
A name is not a promise that the house still takes guests, and it is not a promise that it belonged to the association after 2002. The 2015 homepage spoke of a directory of historic lodgings and did not reprint this list. Between the list and that later homepage, this archive does not hold the updates.
What was left off every line
No address. A visitor who wants a street is in the same position as a hotline caller: the hotline’s own rule was that locations were not provided. The directions get a car to Lafayette Street. They do not get a car to Henry Sawyer Inn or to the Humphrey Hughes House or to Windward House. Those three are names from the list, used here only as names.
No telephone number next to the name. The hotline’s gift, when it had one, was a number for a place that had space in the next ten days. The 2002 page did not preprint those numbers. Calling (609) 884-0080 was how the site said to ask which names, if any, had a room inside the window. The number of the association is not the number of The Mooring or of Saltwood House.
No rate, no amenity, no “built in” year. The before-1910 rule is the about page’s rule for members. It is not a date stamped on Queen Victoria or on Wooden Rabbit. Putting one there would look like research and would be an invention. The hotline withheld rates and amenities even for names that did have space.
Names that are easy to over-read
Gingerbread House names a style in its title. The about page did not define membership as gingerbread. The name is one line on this list. Victorian Lace Inn and Victorian Rose use a style word too. They still do not convert the membership rule into a style rule. Rhythm of the Sea, Sea Holly, Sea Villa, and Inn on Ocean put water in the name. The page does not say they stood on the beach. Inn on Ocean is a name, not a map point, until some other page — a page this archive does not have — says otherwise.
The Albert Stevens Inn, Abigail Adams, Jeremiah Hand House, John F. Craig House, and John Wesley Inn use personal names. The about page did not say these were the founders of the association. The association dated itself to 1980 and named no founder. A personal name on an inn is the inn’s name. It is not a biography, and this site will not write one.
King’s Cottage, The Manse, The Mission Inn, and The Poet’s Inn suggest a building type in ordinary English. The page does not confirm the suggestion. A manse, on this list, is a line of text. It is not a documented parsonage unless a source outside this page says so. That source is not here.
How to use the list without making it a booking page
Use it to see which bed-and-breakfast names the association’s site was willing to print in 2002. Use the about page to see the wider claim, over 70 members of five kinds, in houses built before 1910. Use the hotline text to see how a caller asked about the next ten days: names and numbers of places with space, nothing about price or place. Use the directions to drive into town, from the Parkway or from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and stop where the site stopped, on Lafayette Street.
Do not use it to check tonight’s availability. The list has no dates of stay. Do not use it as a complete membership roll. The about page said the membership was larger than a bed-and-breakfast page. Do not add Angel of the Sea or any other well-known Cape May inn that this page did not print. Absence from the list is not corrected by fame.
The 2006 copyright line read Cape May Historic Accommodations, website by Cape May Times. The list is older than that footer. Neither credit turns the names into a present-tense directory. A present-tense directory was what the 2015 homepage described, and that directory is not in the archive.
Questions
How many names are in the table?
54 names, the lines on the 2002 bed-and-breakfast page. That number is not the about page’s “over 70,” which covered more kinds of lodging.
Are these the inns with rooms this week?
No. The page printed names. It did not print vacancies. Vacancies, for the next ten days only, were what the hotline said it would look up.
Why are there no links on the names?
The individual inn pages are not in this archive. A link would point at a page the site does not have.