Watch Hill Real Estate

Watch Hill is one of the best kept secrets in New England.

It's a small, Victorian, seaside village that you would never know is there unless you made the trip!

Watch Hill is an exquisite summer resort located on the southern tip of Rhode Island.

In 1833, Jonathan Nash established the Watch Hill House.

This was followed by small developments around the area until the resort began its big swing in 1870.

A bathing beach, which basically means that it had bath houses, and several cottages were built. In 1879 a stroke of luck brought Watch Hill's most famous resident to live...The Watch Hill Flying Horse Carousel.

In the 1880's, a group from Cincinnati began to sell house lots that have for the most part survived and provide a solid base for the beach colony that was Watch Hill.

Steamers ran to Watch Hill daily and even more came when the trolley line came to town.

 Hotels were built all through town.

This beautiful seaside village nestled on a peninsular surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean provides a spectacular view of the most beautiful sunsets in all of Rhode Island.

A charming Victorian village located in the southwestern corner of Rhode Island, Watch Hill is a long time favorite hideaway for famous visitors.

Groucho Marx, Isadora Duncan, David Niven, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Pickford, Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, Mary Tyler Moore, President John F. Kennedy were all drawn to the beauty and privacy of this seaside retreat.

East Beach, the other popular beach in Watch Hill, is both spacious and clean attracting most of the regular sunbathers and swimmers.

Misquamicut Beach and Weekapaug Beach, are two beautiful beaches just northeast of East Beach.

Atlantic Beach Park at Misquamicut includes a ferris wheel, kiddie amusement park, carousel, miniature golf and more.

Altogether, this ten mile stretch of beach highlights much of the reason why Rhode Island is called the Ocean State.

Whether you're looking for a solitary walk with the sounds of waves gently crashing and birds diving overhead, or looking to sit down to enjoy a long, lazy day watching the children play, or looking for an adventurous day water skiing and knee boarding, Watch Hill is the place for you.

From May through September, Watch Hill days are filled with leisurely picnicing, sailing, golf and beach-going at windswept East Beach and Napatree Point. 

Watch Hill was originally settled by the Niantic Indians in the 1600s, who's Chief Ninigret, is honored with a statue of his likeness that gazes out into the harbor.

This bronze statue of Chief Ninigret, a sachem of the Niantic tribe, was sculpted by Edith Yandell and erected in 1914 as the symbolic guardian of Watch Hill.

Colonists later moved in and grabbed all valuable the Watch Hill real estate.

Foster Farm was one of the first farms in Watch Hill.

The point earned it's current name for serving as a strategic lookout point during the French and Revolutionary Wars.

With its highest point being a mere 812 feet, Rhode Island is not a place most folks think of when they want to take a hike.

Yet it does have some of the finest & longest beach strolls in New England.

Watch Hill now serves as home to fine shopping and dining, as well as hotel accomodations for those who wish to spend their vacation a stone's throw from the gentle shores of Napatree Point, which offers smaller waves and fine shore fishing.

 Watch Hill Beach mostly attracts regulars who have summer homes in the tony Victorian neighborhood.