The Breakers (built in 1878) was a Queen Anne style cottage designed by Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV and located along the Cliff Walk on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island.

While only extant for 14 years, it "was widely known in the nineteenth century and continues to attract the attention of architectural historians today.

"[3] On August 28, 1877,[4] Pierre Lorillard IV paid $96,147 for 10 acres (480,736 square feet)[5] on Ochre Point from Gov.

[7] Lorillard hired Peabody and Stearns who designed the residence in the Queen Anne style, construction began in 1877 and was completed in 1878[8] at a cost of $90,000.

The underpinning was Cape Ann granite and the exterior was Philadelphia brick, laid in red mortar, with trimmings of Nova Scotia and North River blue-stone.

At the side of the front entrance is a large octagonal brick tower, rising high above the roof, and surmounted by a gilded vane.

[22] At the time, Vanderbilt stated that the house was insured for $125,000, the furniture for $75,000 and the boiler for $10,000, a total of $210,000, at least several hundred thousand dollars less than what it was worth.

[22] In the wreckage, workers found two safes which contained his wife's jewelry that were only minimally damaged from the intense heat.

[23] Vanderbilt replaced the 1878 residence with the massive and now more well-known The Breakers, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed between 1893 and 1895.