The sale of Halidon Hall by Ralph Gunning of Normandy on Ocean Avenue and State Sen. Pat Nero of Cranston to the Robert F. Horlbogen family of East Greenwich, was announced today by Restmere Realty Inc.
The residence was the home of the singing Cowsill family and was built about 1870. Purchase price for the 18-room granite rock house on Wellington Avenue was $83,000. Included in the sale were four acres.
Halidon Hall was owned for many years, going back into the nineteenth century, by A. Livingston Mason and later, also for years, by Cmdr. Benjamin B. McCormick.
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