The Approach
Edgartown, from the air.
Trapps Pond, from above
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Trapps Pond, from above
She is built like a ship — her lines elongated stern to bow, her rooms running fore and aft like a captain's quarters run a deck. Exposed timber beams joined the way Vineyard shipwrights joined their hulls, custom paneling room to room, wide-plank oak underfoot — and marble everywhere: every bathroom, every one, cut to order. A see-through fireplace passes its light between the sitting rooms; a private theater waits below; and the heated pool, 16′ × 38′ on its raised stone terrace, rides above the pond like a deck above the waterline. An older home came down for this ground after years of hearings and patience — but the original guest house at the water's edge was saved and refurbished, grandfathered where no one may ever build again.
The full architectural set — each level drawn as one continuous piece, main house through the attached garage, with the surveyed site on Trapps Pond. Select a sheet; click to enter it.
Her true footprint, traced from the stamped drawings — every room's walls standing at real height on both decks. Drag to turn her. Step in at ground level and walk her rooms.
Front Elevation
Rear ElevationEvery other frame on this page shows The Norton virtually complete. These are her rooms and grounds as they sit right now — finished spaces awaiting their furnishings, in the last season of the work. Swipe through.
They are not making more waterfront. They are not making more privacy. And they are certainly not permitting more of either.
Edgartown's average sale reached $3.56 million in 2025, and the top of the market is deepening fastest. Around the corner at Cow Bay, estates now trade at fifteen million dollars. Within this same preserve, The Norton's sister ship raised her asking price while on the market — new construction moving in a direction the island almost never sees.
The Norton holds the position that cannot be recreated: waterfront, inside a private enclave, at a scale the town's hard-won approvals are unlikely to grant again. That is not a promise. It is arithmetic — and it is scarcity.
Every estate at Osprey's Point carries the name of an Edgartown seafaring legend — and The Norton carries the first. When the finest whaleship New Bedford ever launched slid into the water, it was an Edgartown man they gave her to: Captain Thomas Adams Norton, her first master, at the helm for her maiden voyage.
The maiden voyage ran nearly four years — out of the Atlantic, around the Horn, into the far Pacific whaling grounds and back. A captain then was navigator, judge, surgeon, and merchant at once, a thousand miles from any harbor, with every soul aboard answering to his judgment.
He brought her home with some fifty-three thousand dollars of cargo in her hold — a fortune in her day, and one of the great first voyages in the whaling trade. The ship he broke in would outlast them all: the Charles W. Morgan survives still, the oldest commercial vessel afloat in the world.
Made by one voyage, Captain Norton retired from the sea at thirty-seven and lived out his years an Edgartown gentleman. He named his son Thomas Morgan Norton — after the ship that made him. The ship and the man were family, and Edgartown never forgot either.
Here on Trapps Pond the ship and her captain stand together again: The Morgan on the rise, The Norton on the water — the captain, as ever, holding the position of honor. The next name on her deed joins that history.
A mile from her door: Edgartown's white-fenced lanes, the harbor light, the shops on Main Street — and the beaches that made the island a legend.
Offered at $14,499,000 · Part of the Sebastian Keys Collection · Harbor View Builders & Development