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House Lust: The Lavish Sanford-Covell Villa in Newport is on the Market Now a B and B, the museum-quality Victorian has been in the same family since 1895. February 16, 2021 Sixty thousand dollars. That’s how much Anne Ramsey Cuvelier paid in 1980 for the incredible Sanford-Covell Villa, a 7,644-square-foot estate on the Newport harborfront. Eighty-five years before that, Cuvelier’s great-grandfather, William King Covell II, also got it for a steal: $16,500 (around $500,000 today) at a public auction, when the previous owners paid more than $100,000 to build it. For years, William King C...

William Walsh Corcoran, “Bill” to his friends and “Pop” to his family, (91) died after a suffering a heart attack on Tuesday morning January 19, 2021. Born on October 16, 1929, Bill was a life-long resident of Newport and a graduate of Rogers High (1947), the Portsmouth Priory (1948), Brown University (1951), and Boston College Law School (1958).  He served as a deep sea diver in the US Navy, specializing in submarine rescue, before embarking in a long career as an attorney and senior counsel to Corcoran, Peckham, Hayes, Leys & Olaynack, P.C. William served as a member of the Newport...