“Mr. Norton is now erecting a beautiful modern hotel on the site of the old Ocean Bluff hotel, destroyed by fire some years ago. The situation is one of the most commanding on the coast and the new hotel is to be called Breakwater Court. The building was begun last Fall and Mr. Norton had expected to operate both houses, his former success as a hotel proprietor and his great popularity with the summer people at that resort warranting a highly satisfactory management. Then, unexpectedly, came this offer from the gentlemen named (Edwin C. Nevins & Joseph E. Duffield), they having been guests at the Old Fort Inn with Mr. Norton as proprietor. The new hotel, Breakwater Court, will claim Mr. Norton’s time and he means to make it one of the most attractive summer houses on the Atlantic coast.”
newspaper article, c. 1913