This immersive, 2-hour tour experience combines a guided tour by trolley of Cape May’s Historic District with a guided tour of the Physick House Museum, providing an in-depth look into Cape May history and architecture. Learn why Cape May is the only National Historic Landmark City in the nation as you appreciate the details of Cape May’s unique Victorian streetscapes via trolley. The tour includes contributions of Cape May’s Black community recently documented and entered into the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and into the National Register of Historic Places. Take a guided tour of the first and second floors of the 1879 Physick House Museum, for a detailed look at Victorian architecture and the period. The tour includes a visit to the Carriage House Carroll Gallery Exhibit and begins and ends at the Ocean Street Trolley Stop.
If you would like to take the Combo Tour including a shuttle to take you back to the start of the tour, please be sure to choose tours on the same date, and choose the Emlen Physick Estate tour that directly follows the Historic District trolley tour time-frame (45 minutes). Trolley tours that do not precede the Emlen Physick Estate tour begin and end across from the Information Booth at Washington & Ocean steets.