With the snip of a ribbon, a $1,000 donation and a gift of historical materials, Kinlin Grover Real Estate officially joined the Marion business community on Thursday afternoon.

Located in the Captain Hadley House at the corner of Route 6 and Front Street, the Marion Kinlin Grover office is the real estate company’s first off-Cape location. With the office in operation since May, an open house and ribbon cutting served as the coming-out party for the real estate company.

Kinlin Grover President Mike Schlott said the company had long been attracted to Marion “for both financial and aesthetic reasons.”

He spoke of the town’s deep roots in history, noting that Presidents Grover Cleveland and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had both summered in Marion.

Thus it was a “natural fit,” he said, that, when Kinlin Grover was looking to make a donation to a community organization to mark its arrival in Marion, the Sippican Historial Society was selected. With that, an oversized $1,000 check was pulled out and presented to Historical Society Curator Pete Smith.

Smith in turn presented Schlott with a copy of a Historical Society paper on the history of what is now known as the Captain Hadley House. Previously the Old Landing Inn, Smith selected an appropriate factoid for the audience of real estate professionals: In 1934, the inn sold for a whopping $19,500.

At the helm of the Marion office is veteran area Realtor Ralph Grassia. Having spent much of the last four months building a staff, securing listings and selling property, Grassia found the grand opening festivities an opportunity to celebrate what has already been accomplished.

After introducing the office’s Realtors, he noted that the team had just that week “put together millions of dollars in deals.”