The year was 1879 and John Dodge finally moved into his dream house on Beacon Hill. It was beautifully designed and lovingly built especially for his family. Andy and Hillary Transue found and fell in love with this typical single-family Block Island house 109 years later, with its mansard roof and four bedrooms – just enough room for them and their children, Bain and Carris. They lived there for the first six years of Bain’s life and then sold it when they all moved to the mainland.Bain never forgot the house in which he spent those first years and dreamed that one day he would live there when he had his own family. That day happened in mid-2020 when Bain, his wife Kaylan and their three boys, Jameson, Mac, and Colman moved into Bain’s boyhood home to complete the end of one dream and the beginning of another.
Scenic Block Island, a 501-c-3 not-for profit corporation, was formed in 1993 to preserve the character, history, charm, and uniqueness of Block Island. In 2019 SBI created the Preservation Plaque Program to honor historic homes and buildings and their caretakers with a handmade 111⁄2” by 16” oval plaque listing the
