In the summer of 1885 Charles Chamberlain Hoyt and his family drove in a 2-seated carryall from Greenfield, MA to Ogunquit looking for a place by the seashore to build a summer home. He purchased from Israel Littlefield the field extending from Israel's Head Road to the present Anchorage property along Shore Road, and from the ocean to the Marginal Way access path that goes along the back side of the inn. The family used a tent for a few years picnicking on the site before building the large Victorian summer cottage that he named Beachmere. He also built three cottages that still exist on Beachmere Lane and another cottage on the present Colonial Inn property, one for his sister Annie Hoyt, (Blue Shutters), one for his ex-wife, and one for his secretary, so the story goes. He built a large barn for his horses with a spring fed watering trough inside. This was later demolished when the South building was constructed. A five-story viewing tower with windows on all sides was built in the early 1900's and torn down in the ‘30s. His two daughters later built houses for their families' on Ontio Way behind the Beachmere. His brother E. R. Hoyt also bought land in Ogunquit along the river and built his house called Fieldstone, now turned into condominium units.