“59 Elm Street is undoubtedly a masterpiece.”
The owners are retiring and the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast is ready for its next macabre-minded stewards.
After twenty-two years, the conversion is complete.
From Gilded Age glamour to pastoral property in Middletown, these are the listings that topped the MLS in 2020.
It sounds like a Rhode Island dream come true. But there’s a hitch.
“It’s like a grown-up Lincoln log house!”
“I thought: ‘This is not real. This is out of a fairy tale,’ and then you see the water.”
Champ Soleil, one of the last intact, privately owned Gilded Age mansions in Newport, retains all the trappings of history without any of the stuffiness.
“Usually what happens is an artist or craftsman gets an idea their head and in order to pin it down, you have to make the damn thing.”
It’s the type of house that’s easy to imagine as home.
