Gaslight & Gingerbread A photographic recollection of old Sea Cliff by Charles E. Ransom

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Hotels


Still standing today, with its exterior little changed, is the Pinnacle Hotel, on the south side of Maple Avenue, just west of Prospect Avenue.


The Pierpont Hotel, later known as the Manhattan Arms, was built on the south side of Parkway between Seventh and Prospect Avenues. In 1938, it was otally destroted by fire.


The Hoe cottage is located on the north side of Franklin Avenue, a short distance west of Park Place. It was probably built in the 1880s and is still standing.


The Denham cottage, located on the east side of Prospect Avenue between Sea Cliff Avenue and Fairview Place, was built in the 1880s. It later became known as Scott's Boarding House.

Around the turn of the century, Sea Cliff became one of the largest summer resorts on the Atlantic Coast, and more and more hotels were built to accommodate the summer visitors. During this time more than twenty hotels and boarding houses flourished.

The Sea Cliff Hotel, the Sound View, Plaza Park, Pinnacle, Battershall Inn, Comfort Cottage, the Monterey, the Brunswick, Willow Tree Inn, and the Glenada were among the better known.

Additional accommodations were provided in private homes, where rooms were rented to summer boarders. With the advent of the automobile, better roads were constructed and vacationers were able to travel farther and farther away. Today practically no hotels, as such, exist in the Village.