The Shelburne is the last of the early hotels which accommodated the area’s tourists at the turn of the Twentieth Century. The rest have fallen victim to fire and changing times. The original home and hotel were built across the street in 1896. In 1911 the hotel was moved and joined to a similar structure forming the expanded facility locally remembered as the Shelburne Hotel. The original Shelburne was built on land platted by Seaview’s founder, Jonathan L. Stout, and deeded to his daughter Inez Eugenia Stout Beaver. Two buildings, one of ornate and one of typically simple Victorian seacoast construction are joined in a unique and noteworthy tandem.