" Now this is a very proper Victorian, isn't it?"

" Yes it is Bob. But I wanted to show you this house because of the shingle pattern."

" Uh huh."

" You'll notice that it has a variety of shingle patterns on the first floor. There are scallop shingles alternating with the straight shingles. On the second level, again, we've got a diamond shape shingle pattern."

" Uh huh."

" Scallop shingles and your basic shingles."

" I like it."

" Isn't it nice?"

" Yup."

" And then the gable end we've got an entire scallop shingle decoration which really works beautifully."

" I like the turret it's much bigger than ours. But I like the way it's ornamented."

" Yes, it's beautifully ornamented. And even though yours is smaller, you can still do a shingle pattern on it. And you don't want as much decoration because yours is smaller."

" Maybe a little crown molding. "

" Exactly."

" We'll do a ginger bread on the top!"

" Oh, well I can show you ginger bread if you wanna see ginger bread."

" Great!"

" Bob, I wanted to show you this house because the porch posts are identical to the original cottage."

" Yes the are, except for the brackets."

" Well, the brackets, I thought these were a very graceful example of brackets that would work really well on your house."

" It's ginger bread, that's for sure!"

" It is."

" Now how would you go about copying something like that?"

" One of the things you could do would be actually to knock on the door and ask if it's possible to do a tracing."

" That's a good suggestion. Now in terms of railings, we want a railing but we want something a little bit livelier than this."

" Oh, well then, let's move on to the camp grounds and I'll show you something really beautiful."

" Well I thought you were gonna show us spindles. This is something else."

" No Bob. Although many Victorian cottages have spindles and churned wood."

" Uh huh."

" This is actually simpler to make and creates just as an elaborate, much more elaborate actually, detail very elegant, very patterned, beautifully patterned and."

" We're getting into ginger bread here though. The feeling is very Victorian and I like that. Victoria, this is the most exuberant ginger bread I've seen anywhere on the island."

" It's so whimsical!"

" Yeah!"

" But I wanted to point out to you that it's possible to have something very exuberant and whimsical and have a very simple window treatment. "

" Uh huh."

" You'll notice over here there's a very very plain lintel actually formed out of few pieces of wood over a 2/2 window."

" So it's okay to make simplicity like that with this kind of ornamentation."

" Absolutely! It's very traditional Victorian form."

" It's a folly!"

" It's a beautiful folly!"

" But I wanna show you the greatest of Victorian follies: Lucy the elephant. Let's watch. The Victorians love going to the beach. And here in New Jersey they call it The Shore. They also follies, architectural follies. And near the beach in New Jersey and New York, they built folly pirate salons to wit, elephants. This is Lucy the elephant in Margate, New Jersey. She's one of 3 elephants that were built in the latter part of the 19th century. She's the only one that survived. The one in Coney Island burnt to the ground. It was 18 stories high and was used as a hotel for many years. The other one in Cape May, New Jersey, was also dismantled. And Lucy almost had a similar fate but she was salvaged in 1970 and is now open to the public and on the National Register of Historic Landmarks. She was built in the 1880s by a developer by the name of Lafferty who wanted to lure people out here to look at his land. He wanted to sell lots in Margate. Let's take a closer look at Lucy. She was built out of structural lumber and clad in about 90 tons of wood and tin. And that large platform on top of her is known as a "houda" which is kind of an Indian saddle. We can actually climb up through one of her legs and take a look inside her. Come on! There are actually 2 ways to get to the top: through the port or starboard hind leg. Let's take the starboard. Of course even inside an elephant you're out to find beautiful Victorian detailing. Here we can look at her structure. Lucy's top, the ceiling if you will, is like a barrel vault. And you can see all the original pieces of laminated bowed wood, some 3 or 4 thick. Now, the horizontal pieces that you see here are structural steel which replaced the original 12x12 timbers long ago rotted. And they, of course, continue all the way to the front. I keep trying to call it the bowel of the elephant but I don't think that's accurate. Here, we're right under Lucy's head. And of course the inside of Lucy oddball collection of memorabilia: the tusk, the tongue, and all sorts of unusual things to look at. But perhaps the best thing to do is to up top to the houda where we can get a beautiful view of the beach. For over 50 years Lucy was a tourist attraction run by the Gertzen Family. But after the 1960s fewer tourists were coming and Lucy fell into disrepair. It was the people here in the town of Margate who loves Lucy who raised, over the years, over half a million dollars to preserve her."