The cottage at 295 Windsor Avenue is what we know as the Lindheimer House. But before 295 (as we call it in the family), there was 301. Built in 1892 as a boarding house, 301 Broadway was the family’s dream come to life: a way to capitalize on the growing tourism economy in Cape May while keeping the family together.

In 1883, Frederick Lindheimer, Sr., died. Although the family had been renting rooms to summer vacationers since the 1870s, Fred Sr.’s death meant much greater pressure on the family to cobble together a living. From letters and family stories passed down, we know that his eldest son Fred (“Uncle Fred” to the family) took odd jobs. Walter worked on fishing boats and at the estate of Emlen Physick as a gardener. Frank, the youngest in the family, sold lilies to day-trippers arriving on the steamboat from Philadelphia.

“You also ask me are they makeing any contemplation to build a house. I have not heard anything more since you left home. I think they will bee wise not to build atall.“
– Walter Lindheimer to his brother Frank, Dec 1885, all errors preserved

We know from letters that the family was considering building a house years as early as the mid-1880s.

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