Emlen Physick Estate

The large 18 room historic house was named for Doctor Emlen Physick. Doctor Physick completed his medical training but did not practice medicine. It was built in 1879. The grounds are beautiful with many trees🌳. The house is well-maintained and has continued it's interesting character. They offer the general public various tours of the estate. It is advised to purchase tickets in advance. The surrounding neighborhood is very quiet and consists of additional historic houses.

I absolutely lose my mind over historical gems such as the Physick Estate that have the entire house to peruse! The tour guide was fantastic & really went through every possible detail on the family & the history. Came with my friends on the first day of our CM vacation on a weekend. Pretty easy enough to purchase tickets ahead of time at the gift store. All in all a perfect way to spend a few hours learning about the local history! Highly recommend!!!!

This is about the 5th or 6th mansion we've visited. The place is very nice the mansion inside is beautiful your guide was funny sarcastic and knowledgeable. $ 20.00 tour better to get them online .

The Emlen Physick Estate offers a great trip back into Cape May's Victorian History. Take the tour: Guides are knowledgeable and the property is beautiful.

This house is a gift to any Frank Furness and turn of the century and Victorian enthusiasts. The tour guides were truly stellar and added such value and depth to the experience. A highlight of our Cape May visit.

Love it. Loved Ken our tour guide too. Beautiful piece of history preserved. I highly recommend a tour.

It was interesting and informative. I bought a combination ticket which includes a trolley tour. I recommend the combination.

We pulled into park and were slightly early so went into the gift shop(once we figured out where it was) That's where we learned that the trolly light tour doesn't pick you up at the Estate but rather downtown where parking is like finding a needle in a haystack. I assumed based on it stating the tour is only 30 minutes and assuming we departed out of here, we'd be fine on time, although it was probably a tight timeframe. We had a 5:30-6pm Estate tour and a 6:30-7pm Light Trolly Ride. The estate tour was somewhat disappointing but I guess it's maybe because it wasn't what we thought. Estate was nicely decorated with lights & there was a decent size parking lot. We were told to wait outside in front of the building 15 minutes before but weren't really told what to do so everyone kind of just clustered up. It was a HUGE group. Seemed like staff were unprepared for the number of people and ended up splitting the group into two. There wasn't really much direction given and it was more of a drawn out re enactment as opposed to giving factual information about the estate. We only got through the first 2 rooms in a half hour, the amount of time they say the tour is. We had a trolly booked for 6:30 so we didn't stay longer. We would have liked to hear some factual background on the house, the way they lived, etc. I hate being "nit-picky" but unfortunately this was slightly different compared to tours we normally do. *Also, we only made it through 1 room in 30 minutes so expect this to be an hour or 2 tour. It is impressive how restored the estate is though and it's beautiful.