A carefully integrated addition to the historic property of The Breakers, the Welcome Center of the Preservation Society of Newport County provides a permanent location for essential visitor services, including ticketing, exhibitions, refreshments and restrooms for their many fabled properties. The Welcome Center serves as an accessible, state-of-the-art facility to sustain the educational mission of the organization and enable people to visit the Preservation Society’s unique properties year round. The historically sensitive pavilion-like design imbedded within restored and reinterpreted gardens on the grounds avoids competing with The Breakers, while at the same time providing a worthy setting for people to refresh themselves and reflect on their experience at the mansion. Sightlines from the Ochre Point Gatehouse and Breakers mansion were carefully studied to avoid intruding into the historic view corridor, and the copper-clad Welcome Center, utilizes the light, delicate metalwork associated with late 19th century garden conservatories to evoke an architectural language consonant with the Breakers and other Newport mansions. Closely linked to site and  history, the center re-establishes a significant garden path and complements the landscape with the addition of a shady, vine-covered trellis to further enrich the variety of experience available to visitors at the property.