Photograph of Breezy Island by Courtney PureBreezy Island was created in the 1890s from soil dredged from the Connetquot River to accommodate William K. Vanderbilt’s yacht. The Cuttings landscaped the resulting island and built a rustic structure where Mrs. Cutting would take tea. In 1965 the tea house was determined to have structural issues and was demolished.

In 2016 a restoration project began to reclaim the island from invasive bamboo. In 2017 the rustic tea house, inspired by the original, was built in memory of Maxwell H. Remmer a local young man who grew up exploring the arboretum.  To complement the rustic structure a Long Island native garden was planted.

This project was made possible with funding from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Inc., Maxwell H. Remmer Memorial Fund, The Bayard Cutting Arboretum Trust, and NYS Parks.

 

 

 

 

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