Breakwater (Southport, Conn.)

found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Fairfield Hist. Soc. for Elwood Stokes Hand papers, 1887-1955(E.S. Hand built "Breakwater" in 1891; owned by Edgar P Lawson in 1924 and a wing was added; house went to auction in 1937, later bought by Richard Ford and George May and torn down in 1938)

found: WorldCat WWW, July 11, 2007(under Pequot Lib. Assoc. for Breakwater postcard, undated: "Breakwater, Southport, Conn."; estate located on some ten acres of property on Osborne Pt (entrance foot of Willow St, extending west along the shore; the 30-room house was built for Elwood Stokes Hand, a Chicago publisher, in the early 1890s)