Caribbean Motel, 5600 Ocean Avenue, Wildwood Crest, Cape May County, NJ

1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place

Significance: Well-preserved Wildwood motel with distinctive original 1950s architectural features: "levitating" concrete ramp, lean in/lean out glass walls on the second-floor lounge, colorful lighting, c-shaped swimming pool, and a large neon sign which required liberalizing town ordinances. The first owner also claim to have originated fake palm trees in the Wildwoods.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N630

Survey number: HABS NJ-1186

Building/structure dates: 1958 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1991 Subsequent Work

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1933 - 1970

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