Hotel Shelburne ca. 1913

Ocean Parkway terminated here at Seabreeze Avenue, where the Hotel Shelburne catered to Coney Island's seasonal visitors. Built originally as the boxy Parkway Baths Hotel, allegedly in thirty days, the hotel added its many balconies and gaudy signs later, co-opting the image of the major amusement parks opening around it- Steeplechase Park (1897), Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904).