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It’s no wonder the late Senator John Chafee, a lifelong Republican, went on to become one of Congress’s foremost environmentalists. When you behold Earth’s glory from your bedroom window — rolling meadows, golden salt marsh, a river bend replete with waterfowl — surely you, too, would want to save it.
But our much-revered senator and governor shouldn’t get all the credit. His wife, Virginia, who died in 2020 at age ninety-three, was quieter about her conservationism but wielded private influence concerning her husband’s environmental policy decisions. The mother of six — including former Rhode Island Governor and current Wyoming resident, Lincoln Chafee — also tended organic gardens and raised geese, horses, ducks and chickens at her Potowomut estate, known in the family as Greene River Farm. According to her obituary, “To the end, she remained committed to the causes affecting life on our planet.”
Now, the place that harbored critical environmental work — from the local Green Acres program to the federal Clean Water Act, Superfund program and Clean Air Act, as well as Virginia’s efforts to preserve more than 300 acres along the Potomac — is on the market for its next stewards.
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1128 Ives Road, East Greenwich, Print Files, Aerials-9
1128 Ives Road in Warwick is on the market for $5.95 million. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
1128 Ives Road in Warwick is on the market for $5.95 million. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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The property, which is just shy of twenty acres along Greene's River in the Potowomut neighborhood, is owned by the Chafee family. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
The property, which is just shy of twenty acres along Greene's River in the Potowomut neighborhood, is owned by the Chafee family. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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A view of the front door. The house has six bedrooms and three baths over 2,065 square feet. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
A view of the front door. The house has six bedrooms and three baths over 2,065 square feet. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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Inside the front hall. The home was built by architect Thomas Handasyd Cabot Jr. in 1960. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
Inside the front hall. The home was built by architect Thomas Handasyd Cabot Jr. in 1960. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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The upper level of the home features a dining area and kitchen. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
The upper level of the home features a dining area and kitchen. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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A view of the kitchen and adjacent pantry. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
A view of the kitchen and adjacent pantry. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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The dining room balcony overlooks a two-story "big room." (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
The dining room balcony overlooks a two-story "big room." (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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Palladian windows flood the "big room" and the dining balcony with light and views. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
Palladian windows flood the "big room" and the dining balcony with light and views. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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Beneath the balcony is a small sitting room and fireplace. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
Beneath the balcony is a small sitting room and fireplace. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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One of six bedrooms. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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Another bedroom with extraordinary views. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
Another bedroom with extraordinary views. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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A brick terrace with a grapevine-covered arbor overlooks the property. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
A brick terrace with a grapevine-covered arbor overlooks the property. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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A closer look at the covered terrace. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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The house sits atop a hill, affording views of the land and water. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
The house sits atop a hill, affording views of the land and water. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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A meadow and, beyond it, Greene's River. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
A meadow and, beyond it, Greene's River. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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The gambrel-roofed barn has four horse stalls and a hayloft. Beyond the barn, hayfields are culled three times a season by a local farmer. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
The gambrel-roofed barn has four horse stalls and a hayloft. Beyond the barn, hayfields are culled three times a season by a local farmer. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
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1128 Ives Road, East Greenwich, Print Files, Twilight Aerials-3
A view of the house at sunset. (Photo credit: Mott and Chace Sotheby's International Realty)
For more information on 1128 Ives Road in Warwick, contact Mott and Chace Sotheby’s broker/co-owner Judy Chace at 401-207-9166 or sales associate Amy I. Doorley-Lucas at 401-935-7117 or visit mottandchace.com.
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