Photograph from about 1889 - 1890 showing the exterior of P. T. Barnum and Nancy Fish Barnum's home Marina in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Though not identified as such, this view appears to have been taken from the southeast corner, looking northwest. The home was designed by architects Longstaff and Hurd of Bridgeport in the eclectic Queen Anne style and was built in 1889 next to the Barnums' 1869 mansion Waldemere, in the area of Seaside Park, facing Long Island Sound. (When the new home was completed, Waldemere was taken down.) This photograph is one in a set of large-format interior and exterior photographs by Farini Photographs, a studio that was located at 61 Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The foreground shows the curved driveway and newly landscaped property, with a number of garden urns placed around the lawn. Standing at three stories, the home home features wide, round turrets, a portico entrance, and at least two porches. The structure itself is made of stone and red brick and has three, possibly four, chimneys and the large roof with a variety of irregular shapes gives a sense of mass and solidity to the structure. On the roof, the material appears to be shaped slate tile and along the top edge of the walls, where the walls meet the roofline, there is a highly decorative frieze, possibly made of terracotta. Stonework outlines the windows and on the turrets, deliniates the first and second floors. The visible part of the foundation is stone. Many of the windows are shaded by striped awnings. On the grounds at the far right, there is a very tall wood pole made in sections, presumably a flag pole though no flag is visible. The southwest view of the exterior (the far left side of this view) can be seen in photograph 1970.006.003 AA in this set. The reverse side of the photograph's paperboard mount is black save for the photographer's imprint in gold. This photograph is the only one in the set without an envelope, thus it lacks an original description from the "Remarks" line, and has been given the assigned title, "South-east view of 'Marina.'" Barnum built Marina specifically for his much younger second wife, Nancy, knowing she would outlive him and would want a more modern, easier-to-maintain home than Waldemere. Presumably it was she who hired Farini to take the photographs so that she could show off the new home to her family and friends at home in England. Probably some years after the death of P. T. Barnum, when Nancy had remarried, she gave these photographs to the Joshua Cunliffe family, friends of hers who lived in England. The set later came into the possession of another person, and was subsequently obtained by an antiques dealer in Blackford Bridge, Bury, Lancashire, England. The photographs came to the attention of Barnum Museum Curator Kenneth B. Holmes, who purchased them on behalf of the museum. An article about the initial discovery of the photographs was published in the Bridgeport Sunday Post on January 24, 1971.