Congress Hall a Historic Hotel in Cape May
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In 1816 Thomas H. Hughes constructed a wooden boarding house for guests to the new seaside resort of Cape May. He called this new boarding house "The Big House."
In 1828, Mr. Hughes was elected to the House of Representatives, and changed the name of the hotel to Congress Hall.
This building would burn to the ground in Cape May's Great Fire of 1878, but within a year, its owners had rebuilt the hotel in brick in an effort to convince every prospective guest that the building was fireproof.
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Historic Congress Hall, Cape May Historic District, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Historic Landmark District, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, Cape May, Cape May County, Southern Jersey Shore, The Jersey Shore, The Shore, Down The Shore, New Jersey Shore, Atlantic Ocean, Jersey Beaches, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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