Ocean Edge Buys Old Sea Pines Inn

BREWSTER – The Old Sea Pines Inn in Brewster will be under new management in 2024.

For the first time in 46 years, Stephen and Michelle Rowan won’t be the owners. OSPI LLC, a newly registered entity managed by Corcoran Jennison, the owners of the 429-acre Ocean Edge property in town, purchased the Sea Pines Inn for $2,475,000 on Dec. 14.

Karen Meyer and John Mostyn were acting on behalf of Corcoran Jennison when they signed the right of first refusal with Michelle Rowan, trustee of the Old Sea Pines Inn Realty Trust.

The asking price for the Old Sea Pines Inn was $2.6 million, but that included the furnishings which were transferred separately from the sale price of $2.47 million.

OSPI LLC is listed as being on Mount Vernon Street in Boston, where Corcoran Jennison is located. Joe Corcoran began the company in 1971 as Regional Development. Gary Jennison joined in 1975 and the company became Corcoran Jennison Companies in 1987 and comprised five affiliated companies.

The first mansion on Route 6A was built in 1890 by Samuel Nickerson on 46 acres for his son Roland. The Nickerson’s sold it to the LaSalle religious order in 1945 and the group converted it into a seminary. Corcoran Jennison bought it in 1980 and began converting it into the present resort, including the golf course and condos on the opposite side of Route 6A.

Now the Sea Pines Inn can be added to the fold.

The inn has 20 guest rooms with eight rooms and a five-room suite in the main building and seven more guest rooms in the north building, plus a two-bedroom apartment. There are two function and dining rooms with a capacity of 125, kitchen and a liquor and innkeeper’s license. There is a garden that has been used for weddings and other celebrations.

The inn was noted for its old-time charm, and was at one time a charm school. It was originally built in 1850. In 1907 the Sea Pines School of Charm and Personality for Young Women was founded by the Reverend Thomas Bickford. What is now the inn was part of a much larger building on what was then on 300 acres. Through most of its existence the school was run by Bickford’s daughter Faith Bickford, who penned “A Cape Cod Idyl” while guiding the young women. The school lasted until the 1970s. The Rowans bought it in 1977.

The building is 16,166 square feet. It was first listed for sale on Nov. 18, 2022.