Cynthia Mullock, owner of 5 Perry Street in Cape May, looks out the window of a third floor room, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. She is renovating the old Victorian bed and breakfast into a boutique hotel ...

There perhaps is no more iconic hotel in Cape May than Congress Hall. Originally built in 1816, the grand hotel was called “The Big House” by its owner, Thomas Hughes, and “Tommy’s Folly ...