Part of actor's estate sold  Providence Journal Bulletin

January 12, 2006 by Timothy C. Barmann, Journal Staff Writer

Providence Journal Bulletin

By Timothy C. Barmann

Journal Staff Writer

Actor Anthony Quinn's widow had divided the Poppasquash Road estate in two and continues to live there.

Part of the Anthony Quinn estate in Bristol was sold yesterday to a New York lawyer for $3.235 million, a real-estate agency said.

The 10.4-acre parcel, which had been for sale under three different brokers since 2002, was finally sold yesterday by Lila Delman Real Estate of Narragansett.

The buyer is James Kearney, a lawyer from Bronxville, N.Y., the Lila Delman agency said.

Quinn, a two-time Academy Award-winning actor, lived on the estate with his wife, Katherine, and their two children, from 1995 until 2001, when Quinn died of pnuemonia.

He was buried on the estate, beneath a maple tree in a private memorial garden.

After his death, Katherine Quinn obtained permission from the Town of Bristol to divide the 19-acre Poppasquash Road estate into two parcels.

The parcel that sold yesterday includes a 14-room main house, two guest houses, a greenhouse, a pool and a pool house.  The home sits at the top of a hill and has views of the sunrise over Mount Hope Bay and the sunset over Narragansett Bay.

The main house was designed in 1961 by New York architect George Hickey.  It is described by the Delman agency as an "elegant, rambling single-story home" with 7,300 square feet of living area.

Katherine Quinn and her children live on the other 8 acres, where the actor's burial plot is located.  She renovated other structures on the property into a residence, said Melanie Delman, the listing agent.  Mary Philbin, also of Lila Delman Real Estate, was the selling agent.

Anthony Quinn died of pneumonia and respiratory failure at Brigham & Women's Hospital, in Boston, on June 3, 2001, at the age of 86.

In his will, on file with the Probate Court in Bristol Town Hall, Anthony Quinn states:  "Without intending to create a trust or other obligation, I request that my children be raised in our home in Bristol."

The parcel that sold yesterday was first listed at $5 million in 2002, according to Journal reports.  A second broker later tried to sell it for $3.5 million, according to Delman.

When the Lila Delman agency got the listing about two months ago, the price was $3.65 million, she said.  The buyer negotiated the sale price of $3.235 million.