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Every ten years, the city of Providence is required to publish a Comprehensive Plan to guide zoning, planning and growth for the following decade. The last Plan was passed in 2014, and a new Plan is being written for adoption in 2024. On June 18, the City Plan Commission (CPC) meets at 4:45pm at 444…
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Providence Preservation Society Pauses Intended Sale of Shakespeare’s Head Building to Investigate the Building’s Connection to Slavery and the Underground Railroad 1772 Building Was Home to Enslaved African Americans in the 1770s and 1780s and May Have Been a Stop on the Underground Railroad in the 19th Century. The Shakespeare’s Head building (1772) at 21…
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Better and more complete storytelling is a pillar of PPS’s strategic plan, and there’s no better place to begin than our historic office building and immediate neighborhood. Here on Meeting and Benefit streets, the complexity of the past isn’t always visible in the buildings that remain, and it is increasingly the work of preservationists and…
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PPS assembles this annual list to bring attention to vulnerable places and heritage across the city that are of architectural, historic, or cultural significance. Previously known as the “Most Endangered Properties List,” and now called the Most Endangered Places List, this name change better reflects the diversity of place-based heritage in Providence. Nominated by members…
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Three houses on Angell Street are once again in danger of demolition. 209, 211, and 217 Angell Street have drawn much concern and controversy on the East Side over the years as developer Ed Bishop proposed the location for the Smart Hotel. This proposal would have resulted in a six-story boutique hotel with no parking…
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A message from Warren Jagger, Board President: I am excited to share with you the appointment of the Society’s new Executive Director, Marisa Angell Brown. Marisa comes to PPS most recently from Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity, where she has served as Associate Director since 2022. Prior to her work at RISD,…
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Starting in 2018, with the help of many dedicated student interns, and grant support from Historic New England and the Herman H. Rose Fund, PPS worked to digitize our extensive photographic slide collection. These slides document Providence architecture from the 1950s-90s and demonstrate how our city developed and changed during the latter half of the…
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Nominations for our annual Most Endangered Properties List are officially open! We need YOU to nominate important heritage resources that you are concerned about. Providence has twenty-five neighborhoods filled with beautiful architecture that make it the city we know and love. For decades, our annual list has advocated for buildings at risk due to neglect,…
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