Three centuries of history.

yours to continue.

57 Old Forge Road · Potowomut, Rhode Island · Est. 1723

Where History Chose to Land

In 1723, Jabez Greene built a house on a peninsula in Rhode Island. It has stood every day since.

This house became the kind of place that history finds. Benjamin Franklin's sister came here when Boston fell to the British. Lafayette visited after the Revolution and gave the property its name, "The Grange." General Burnside sat at the dining room table on September 3, 1864, and received word that Sherman had taken Atlanta.

Rufus Waterman wrote 45 pages about this place by the west parlor fire in the winter of 1856, addressed to his grandchildren, so that whoever would one day sit in this room and wonder about the walls around them would have a record to reach for. That record still exists, telling the stories of this home today.

The current owners continue a lineage of serious stewardship. More than one million dollars invested since 2020 to bring every system and finish fully to this century, while protecting everything that makes this place impossible to replicate. There is only one property like this.

The Estate at a Glance

5,095 square feet. Six bedrooms. Four full baths and two half baths. 10.9 acres on the Potowomut peninsula. Greene River flowing along the property line with direct water access. A private tennis court. A fully restored 1825 cottage, income-producing and move-in ready. Champion trees certified by the Rhode Island Tree Council as the largest of their species in the state. Three centuries of documented history on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The Cottage

Built 1825 · 2 Bed · 2 Bath

The cottage has been part of this property for two hundred years.

Guests who have stayed here write about waking to turkeys on the lawn and deer moving through the trees at sunrise. One described the surrounding land as the most majestic collection of trees in southern New England. Another wrote that there is almost a reverence about this place because of its history.

The cottage is guest-ready, income-producing, and entirely self-contained. For the next owner it can be whatever the next chapter calls for.

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life at the grange

The River

Greene River runs along the edge of this property and out to Narragansett Bay. Blue heron, osprey, and bald eagles fish its banks. Take a boat out and follow the water all the way to the bay. This is not a view of nature. It is life inside it.

entertaining

The table is long, the porch is wider, and the grounds go as far as you need them to. There is a reason people have been gathering here for three hundred years.

Tennis Court

Saturday morning. The air still cool. The court is yours, the property is quiet, and there is nowhere you need to be. A few sets before breakfast and for the first time in a long time there is absolutely nothing else you would rather be doing.

The Grounds

Nearly 11 acres of open lawn, towering trees, and river's edge. Flowers through the grounds, wildlife moving through without announcement, and a stillness that is increasingly hard to find. Room to breathe. Room to wander. Room to simply be.

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