Photograph of the Original Breakers Estate

c. 1877 - 1892

Photograph of the front part of the driveway at the original Breakers estate, designed by Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV. Also visible is the caretaker's cottage to one side of the driveway entrance. The estate was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1885, though the house was lost to fire in 1892. The Italianate villa that is The Breakers today was then built on the site.

Label on verso reads "No. 1162, The Architectural Publishing Co., Rialto Building, Room 1-A, 119 Devonshire Street, - - Boston. Duplicates furnished. Send number.

American

photographic print

albumen

8" X 10"

PSNCA.H.001.157

Related to PSNCA.H.001.136 - .144; PSNCA.H.001.147 - .157; PSNCA.H.001.160