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I find it delightful that men of the Cape May and Philadelphia Physick family were doctors, including Cape May’s Victorian gentleman, Dr. Emlen Physick, Jr., whose legacy is the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May.
Dr Emlen Physick. Prior Owner of the Physick Estate in Cape May, N.J., which is now a museum. Located next to Isabella M. & Emilie T. Parmentier in the Physick Family Plot.
The Emlen Physick Estate offers visitors a look back at our nation’s Victorian past. As the grandson of Dr. Philip Syng Physick – regarded as the father of American surgery – Emlen Physick inherited the family estate after his father’s death in 1859.
Nov 1, 2010 · Known as “Cape May’s original haunted house”, the mansion was built in 1879 by Dr. Emlen Physick. He had just turned 21 and moved into the house with his mother, Frances Ralston and her two maiden sisters Emilie and Isabelle.
The 18-room mansion, designed by American architect Frank Furness, was built in 1879 for Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. (1855–1916), descendant of a well-known Philadelphia family, his widowed mother, Mrs. Ralston, and maiden Aunt Emilie. [1]
Emlen Physick Estate, today. Dr. Emlen Physick, Dr. Philip Syng Physick's grandson would build his "Cottage" on Washington Avenue in Cape May in 1879. It is considered by some to be one of the finest examples of Victorian "Stick Style" architecture in America.
Cape May’s Physick House is a Victorian museum, built in 1879 as a country home by the sea for Dr. Emlen Physick Jr., his mother, and her two maiden sisters. Emlen Physick never practiced medicine, though his grandfather, Dr. Philip Syng Physick, was a famous physician who was internationally known as “the father of American surgery.”
