The kitchen opens a skylight-topped dining area.
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A Rhode Island Condo in Taylor Swift’s Neighborhood Just Sold for a Record $18.5 Million
Rhode Island‘s Watch Hill community is historically known as a summer resort with grand Victorian-era summer cottages built by wealthy families. These days, the seaside enclave is best known for having Taylor Swift as one of its most famous homeowners.
Set within the coastal village’s storied Ocean House—and just a few doors down from Swift’s estate, a penthouse has sold for $18.5 million, making it the most expensive condo sale ever recorded in the state. The deal is also Rhode Island’s biggest residential sale of 2026 so far, edging out a $16 million Newport estate that sold in January.
The new owner is Alexander Clark, founder and CEO of Technolutions, the New Haven company behind Slate, a college admissions platform used by more than 2,000 colleges and universities. A Yale graduate, Clark has also been involved in historic preservation and philanthropic efforts around New Haven. He purchased the penthouse with his partner, Kimberly Pedrick.
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The apartment, the resort’s only penthouse, spans nearly 4,600 square feet, with two living rooms, a formal dining room, a den, and a skylight-topped kitchen with a large island and pantry. Designed for outdoor living, the nearly 2,200-square-foot terrace includes an outdoor kitchen and grill, lounge area, bathroom, and gazebo, with views of the Atlantic Ocean and Little Narragansett Bay.
The rooftop terrace offers unobstructed ocean views.
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The primary suite’s bath includes a deep soaking tub and a beach-stone shower, while the two guest bedrooms each have their own en-suite bathrooms.
Ownership includes membership to the Ocean House Club, giving residents access to the resort’s Ocean Beach and the Dune Cottage, as well as a members-only club room, lap pool, fitness center, spa, wine cellar, and tasting room.
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Built in 1868, Ocean House was the backdrop for Douglas Fairbanks’s 1916 film American Aristocracy.
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The penthouse first listed in February and went under contract in July, closing this month. Bill Hecker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties represented both the buyer and seller. At $18.5 million, the sale is also the fourth-highest residential transaction in Rhode Island since 2021, regardless of property type. “We had multiple offers on this property, which tells you how competitive this segment of the coastal market has gotten,” Hecker says.
Swift’s 11,700-square-foot estate is known as High Watch. She bought the property in 2013 for $17.75 million. Its former owner, heiress Rebekah Harkness, later became the subject of Swift’s 2020 song “The Last Great American Dynasty” and the singer held her star-studded bachelorette party there in June 2026.
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Seth Magaziner’s watch party had Real Housewives of RI cast members
Rep. Seth Magaziner and several Real Housewives of Rhode Island cast members held a watch party for the show’s premiere on April 2.
Vic Mellor, who won the Republican primary in Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District, describes marching to the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, as one of the top moments of his life.
Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer who defended the Capitol that day, remembers the day’s events very differently.
“For every single police officer at the Capitol that day, I can guarantee you, it was one of the worst days of their lives,” he said at a news conference outside the Rhode Island State House on Sept. 10.
Dunn was one of two police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 and traveled to Rhode Island this week to express support for U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner, who will face Mellor in the November election.
“The officers who defended the Capitol against attack that day are heroes,” Magaziner said at the event, which was announced less than an hour after Mellor defeated Stephen Skoly in the Republican primary. “The rioters who attacked police and attacked our democracy are villains. Vic Mellor is one of those villains.”
Mellor, who showed up for the press conference and dismissed it as a “political hack stunt,” stood close by as Magaziner and the two officers spoke.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, so no, I don’t apologize for anything,” he told reporters afterward.
‘Terrorists’ or ‘patriots’?
Mellor, a Woonsocket native who spent the last 30 years living in Florida, described Jan. 6 as “just euphoric.”
He said that he marched to the Capitol with his son and made it inside the building, but “wasn’t around any of the violence.”
“I was just around tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of patriots celebrating their First Amendment rights,” he said.
Officer Daniel Hodges, a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer who defended the Capitol that day, said that Mellor was, “at best, supporting the terrorists that wanted to install an unelected dictator against the will of the people of the United States.”
He added that Mellor was “part of the crowd that punched me, kicked me, and tried to gouge out my eye, crushed me against a door frame, ripped off my gas mask, and beat me in the head with a riot baton.”
Mellor denies taking part in violence, wants footage made public
Mellor said he wasn’t part of the violence and denounces the attacks on police officers.
“Of course, I condemn that,” he said. “I condemn any violence.”
He also argued that authorities haven’t released “over 10,000 hours of video” from Jan. 6, suggesting that it could shed light on who initiated the violence.
“We now know that there was a lot of undercover FBI there,” he said. “We know that Antifa was there, we know that BLM was there. … So we need to look into what’s going on.”
Mellor said he’d be happy to have that footage made public because it would prove that he didn’t participate in the violence, and he has video of his own that he’d be willing to release.
“To me, it was an amazing day,” he said.
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