LBI Historical Association hosts fourth annual Wine Dinner and Art Show at Buckalew’s to benefit continuing renovations of the Fisherman’s Cottage

The fourth annual Wine Dinner and Art Show at Buckalew’s Restaurant and Tavern to help raise funds for the continuing renovations of the Fisherman’s Cottage, located behind the Long Beach Island Historical Museum in Beach Haven, will be held on Friday, June 6, at 6 p.m. The event will feature a special, five-course menu offering food and wines from the Pacific Northwest.

Photo via LBI Museum
The event will help raise money for work
surrounding the Fisherman's Cottage.

Live and silent auctions will include nautical gifts, local art, fishing gear, catered dinners, golf outings, wines and spirits and other items donated by local businesses.

Tickets cost $75 per person and include gratuity. To purchase tickets, call Buckalew’s at 609-492-1065.

The funds raised from the event will be used to help the Long Beach Island Historical Association finish landscaping the site of the Fisherman’s Cottage. The focus of the renovations has been on exterior items since the group acquired the building and relocated it a block and a half from its original setting in 2010.

The cottage, originally used by families working the seasons in the local area, was first built in the early 1880s, explained Ronald Marr, president of the Long Beach Island Historical Association. An addition was later built in the early 1900s, and the building was remodeled in the 1920s “to about the condition that you see it now,” he said.

“It was pretty dilapidated when we got it, and it hadn’t been modernized or had a lot of maintenance done to it for many years, so we’re having to do some extensive repairs,” said Marr. “Another reason the local community was so interested in trying to save it is because so many of these houses are being torn down.”

Many more are being demolished following damage from Superstorm Sandy, he added. Thankfully, the Fisherman’s Cottage, which had been set on a new foundation and raised to meet flood elevation regulations following its relocation, did not suffer any damage from the storm.

The historical association plans to begin interior renovations over the next couple of years.

— Kelley Anne Essinger


This article was published in The SandPaper.