New Residence at the Harbor Pond

By Camilla Garrison

“Well it was very exiting,” says former owner and journalist Claudia Dowling after selling one of her Block Island rental houses: Hannah’s Hideaway. “It proves that real estate is much more lucrative than journalism.”

The waterfront (and back) home was sold to the left-side neighbor who had been discussing the subject of buying/selling for about a year before negotiations began. Dowling’s daughter and trustee Hannah Garrison did most of the arrangements and the closing of the sale of the property took place on November 22, 2024.

Hannah and her husband Chris Garrison had similar views upon the selling, yet expressed them in a different manner: Hannah believes “We often have to let things go to let new things in our life arise.” and Chris says “If I never change a door handle in that house again, I will die happy.” He had kept that house together for many years because of various fixes including a broken custom door the night before a big storm, shimmying up to close a window above a staircase, busted smoke alarms during rentals, shattered toilets, renters using boulders as doorstops and much much more.

To readers with the inside scoop, this article may be old news, but it had to hold of at least until after the closing, and who knows, maybe other Garrison/Dowling real-estate schemes are up in the air as you’re reading this!