Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Contributor Yarnall, Hibberd, 1830-1882, architect.
Title Cottage [Avocado] from near back gate, [Sea Girt, NJ] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1884
Date August 27, 1884
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing the Morris family home Avocado, a multi-story Victorian-style home surrounded by trees and viewed from below. Two people stand on the balcony of the tall spire. Elliston Perot Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer home Avocado after designs by Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall. Morris left Avocado, named after a Perot family estate in Bermuda, to his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1947 after her death. By 1958 the house had been demolished.
Notes Time: 4:55
Light: Fair, sun out.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Morris family -- Homes and haunts.
Avocado (NJ : Estate)
Vacation houses -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Sea Girt (N.J.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Associated name Yarnall, Hibberd, 1830-1882, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.381]
Accession number P.9895.381