Step into Cape May history…
The cottage at 295 Windsor was built by the working-class Lindheimer family in 1896. Seven generations later, it is still lovingly cared for by the same family. Come inside to learn what it was like to live in Cape May through the lens of the Lindheimers.
Since 1860…
The Lindheimer family — father Fred, Sr., mother Wilhelmina, and three daughters Amelia (“Emma”), Louisa, and Josephine — moved from Philadelphia to Cape May in 1860. Here, they had three sons: Fred, Walter, and Frank. After 30 years of renting a farmhouse and farming its land, this quiet family built the houses at 301 Broadway and 295 Windsor.
But these houses were not their only legacy; they also left behind hundreds of letters, deeds, rental agreements, grocery receipts, dance invitations, boarder books, and other treasures that we can use to understand what life was like in Cape May for a German, working-class family in the late nineteenth century.
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Sister Homes: 301 Broadway and 295 Windsor
The cottage at 295 Windsor Avenue is what we know as the…
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Get in Touch with the Lindheimer family
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