Abandoned Windswept Estate | Rhode Island Ruins

DRUG MONEY. That’s the reason these beach-side mansion remains are here in Rhode Island. If you’re from Rhode Island you know exactly where this is, sitting alone and pretty at the end of Scarborough beach in Narragansett. This is what’s left of the Windswept Estate.

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It was 1839 and a businessman in Providence Rhode Island named Perry Davis was down on his luck. He was struggling financially, mentally, and physically. It was his rock bottom - Not one to give in without a fight, he decided to make his own medicine.

His sickness was so bad, he believed he was going to die.

Later Davis wrote ““I searched the globe in my imagination, selected the best ingredients and compounded these medicines so that the narcotic influence of one might be balanced by the other. I commenced using my new discovered medicine with no other hope than handing me gently to the grave,”,” But not only did he survive, he got better.

That medicine he made was dubbed Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain-Killer. Davis actually trademarked the name “Pain Killer” which is still used today…and never divulged the formula for his product, since back then there was no regulation on something like this. But today we know it was a mix of vegetable extracts, camphor, ethyl alcohol and opiates. So no wonder it made you feel better…this stuff was made to get you lit.

This product is said to be one of the first directed specifically at pain management, rather than a particular disease or ailment. It is reported to have been given to both soldiers and horses during the American Civil War…which in my opinion would make for a wild campfire outside the battlefield.

Obviously you can’t buy the Perry Davis special today unless you know a guy and have some spare time in the kitchen, BUT you can still get bottles of it off Ebay if you want a cool conversation piece. Am I planning on buying one? Absolutely.

OK so how does this house on the beach fit into the story? In the 1890s Perry’s grandson Edmund sold the rights to the Davis name to another patent medicine firm, and took some of those proceeds and built this estate, known by locals at the time as the mansion built with “Painkiller” money.

The property covered 18 acres and the Davis family definitely used it. A short special in the New York Times dated July 31, 1910 tells of one of the Painkiller heirs landing a blimp on the property with plans to fly it around Narragansett Bay. This family was seriously so cool.

After 40 years, the property was sold to the Castiglione brothers, who turned the mansion into an upscale restaurant called Cobb’s by the Sea, where diners could order boiled lobster for only $1.75. Local residents recall the word "Cobb's Restaurant" painted in large white letters on the carriage house roof.

In 1952, the property was sold again, but this time it was left vacant, attracting vandals and arsonists. In 1974, after three fires in three years, the mansion was demolished.

The property is now owned by the State of Rhode Island who acquired the site in 1980 to keep the land from being developed for luxury condominiums. DEM monitors the property now and there are no plans to demolish the rest of the remains.

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