East Side home sells for $4M

THIS HOUSE AT 460 Rochambeau Ave. on Providence's East Side, known as the Bridgham Estate, sold for $4 million, according to Residential Properties LTD, which represented  the seller.
THIS HOUSE AT 460 Rochambeau Ave. on Providence's East Side, known as the Bridgham Estate, sold for $4 million, according to Residential Properties LTD, which represented the seller.

(Updated 4:22 p.m.) PROVIDENCE – The Bridgham Estate on the East Side, one of the largest family estates remaining in the city, has been sold for $4 million, according to Residential Properties Ltd., which represented the sellers.
The 3.65-acre estate sold May 5 after 68 days on the market to Newton Howard, professor of neurosurgery and neuronal computation at Oxford University in England and scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to listing agent James DeRentis.

The list price was $4,950,000, according to Stephen Readey, a spokesman for Residential Properties.
The selling price for the estate, at 460 Rochambeau Ave., is the third-largest for a residential property in Rhode Island this year. The other two properties were on the coast, according to Readey.
The property was assessed at $2.8 million in 2014 by the Providence Assessor’s Office. The owner was identified as Paula A. Granoff.
It includes a two-floor Spanish Colonial Revival house built in 1915 for the Rhode Island School of Design instructor William Bridgham and his wife, Clara, an heiress. The architect was Eleazer B. Homer. The house is 9,400-square-feet and includes 14 rooms and four bedrooms, according to the city records.
The site includes a maze of hedges, a stone fountain, an orchard and flower and vegetable gardens, according to the real estate company.
An online history of the property, published as part of the marketing effort by Residential Properties, indicates that many estates like the Bridgham property lined Blackstone Boulevard before World War II, but most were razed for newer developments. The Bridgham estate is one of two that remain in the area.
Last year, a plan to subdivide the property into 12 house lots came before the City Plan Commission. The effort to subdivide the estate prompted opposition from neighbors and preservationists. More than 800 people signed an online petition opposing the plan.
To the Realtor’s knowledge, the new owner has no plans to subdivide the property.

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