The Hillhurst Hotel stood at the northeast corner of Laurel Way and Maple Avenue. Originally a farmhouse, it was enlarged twice to accommodate 100 summer visitors. With an elevation of 1,400 feet and expansive views to the west, the Hillhurst attracted many guests, some of whom spent the entire summer there. A porch ran the length of the west side, and there was lawn tennis and evening musicales. Diagonally across Maple Avenue, band concerts took place in the Shepard Park summer pavilion. Norfolk was in its heyday as a summer resort when this photograph was taken about 1910, but the Depression saw the gradual decline of visitors, and the hotel was abandoned and torn down in 1943. -Ann Havemeyer