"Visit the Designer Showcase House" Top 5 Page for this destination Victorian Houses Tip by starship

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One reason for visiting Cape May during Christmas week this year was my desire to visit the annual "Designers' Showcase House." This year the featured house was the "Memucan Hughes" house at 608 Hughes Street. Built in 1847 for Hughes, a ship pilot, this house had many Federal architectural features and had been added to or renovated several times over the years. It seemed odd at first that the house was not a Victorian, but it was beautiful nonetheless.

For this showcase, each room had been decorated by a different designer, and almost every room had been decorated for Christmas as well. The house is extremely large featuring 11 bedrooms and 6 baths alone, but we were not allowed in the private rooms. What I did see were the library, parlor or living room, kitchen, enclosed sun porch, basement spa room, and wine cellar with dining room, the upstairs dining room, one bedroom and 2 baths, and the home theatre and game rooms on the top floor of the house. The necessary places had obviously been updated but the rooms sported beautiful furniture sprinkled with just the perfect antiques, inviting linens, fireplaces, and cozy spaces throughout. The many tasteful Christmas decorations and Christmas trees were the icing on the cake.

Also located on the property and to the side of a very good size backyard was a renovated Carriage House which had no less than 3 bedrooms and 2 baths itself!

This fabulous property was for sale, furnished for the amazing sum of $3.8 million dollars including the Carriage House. If interested in the Carriage House along, the asking price was $890,000!! Much too rich for my blood, but I still dream of owning a Victorian cottage here in Cape May some day!