Living Rooms and Sketches, The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island(1895)*

Artist/Designer: Ogden Codman

Project Location: Newport, United Kingdom

Figure 1: Drawing ( Source | Accessed : November 3, 2016 | Photographer: The Breakers: Bedroom of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, design for window wall )

Figure 2: Drawing ( Source | Accessed : November 3, 2016 | Photographer: The Breakers: Wall Elevation with late Baroque Furnishings )

Figure 3: Living Room ( Source | Accessed : November 3, 2016 | Photographer: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's room )

Figure 4: Bedroom ( Source | Accessed : November 3, 2016 | Photographer: Gertrude Vanderbilt' Bedroom )

Style/Period(s):
Classical Revival

Primary Material(s):
Textile

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form | Accessed : January 5, 2021

Podcast transcript of Virtual Tour of The Breakers | Accessed : January 5, 2021

Architecture Information | Accessed : January 5, 2021

Significant Date(s):
19th Century, 1895

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
"Codman, Ogden." In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide. London: Helicon Publishing, 2016.

Doyle, David D. ""A Very Proper Bostonian": Rediscovering Ogden Codman and His Late-Nineteenth-Century Queer World." Journal of the History of Sexuality 13, no. 4 (2004): 446-76.

Ivins, William M. "The Ogden Codman Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15, no. 11 (1920): 250-53.

Landau, Sarah Bradford. "Richard Morris Hunt, the Continental Picturesque, and the "Stick Style."" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42, no. 3 (1983): 272-89.

Metcalf, Pauline. Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1988.

Peterson, Charles E. "The Ogden Codman Photograph Collection." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 12, no. 3 (1953): 27.

Wharton, Edith, and Ogden Codman. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Dover Publications, 2015.

Building Address:
44 Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island, 02840

Significant Dates: Building completed in 1895, the Vanderbilt family took residence in July 1895

Supporting Staff/ Designers: Architect: Richard Morris Hunt

Tags: History and Interiors, Drawing, United States, Newport, Rhode Island, Classical Revival, 19th Century, 1895, Textile, Residential Structure

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