Somers Mansion, thought to be the oldest house in Atlantic County, was built in the early 1720s. The first record of the house appears in the meeting minutes of the Great Egg Harbor/Cape May Society of Friends in 1726, when the group met at the home of Richard Somers. The three-story brick home was constructed in the Flemish bond pattern, a style of bricklaying that alternates headers and stretchers in a single course. One of its outstanding features is the gambrel roof, thought to have been constructed by a local shipwright and resembling the upturned hull of a ship. Through the years the house was expanded, more than doubling in size. It continued to be owned by generations of the Somers family until 1937, when it was deeded to the State of New Jersey as a lasting tribute to the original Somers family. At the family's behest, it was restored to its original appearance with assistance from the Works Progress Administration and dedicated on September 26, 1942.