The Brighton Beach Hotel on Coney Island, New York was a huge rambling building in 19th century Gothic style, located on a low-lying coast dominated by sand dunes and salt marshes. Changes in the coastline due to erosion necessitated the moving of the hotel in 1888. The movement was carried out by the laying of rail tracks, the underpinning of the building upon vast timber sleepers and the pulling of hotel inland by steam locomotives. The move cost an enormous US$80000 and left the hotel in a safe location 151 m from the sea. The Brighton Beach Hotel was eventually demolished in the 1920s, but buildings now on its site are under erosional threat, which is being counteracted by measures such as groynes an beach nourishment.