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Michele D’Agnillo’s first job in the United States as a teenage janitor in a Colorado copper-smelt factory was a far cry from the empire he would build about a decade later: artificial flower manufacturing. As the story goes, the Italian immigrant started out in Providence with a dollar in his pocket, which he used to…
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The local architecture firm behind some of Providence’s most thoughtful new designs. Providence has its unlikely treasures, and one of them is the brainy, singularly creative architecture firm known as 3Six0. The small firm’s two founders and principals — Chris Bardt and Kyna Leski — are Harvard-trained RISD professors who happen to be husband and…
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Roughly 100 concerned community members and tenants stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the Olneyville community library on the evening of Oct. 9 to discuss the pending sale of Atlantic Mills on Manton Avenue. The meeting was convened by the Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA), which rents space on the first floor of the building and hosts free and…
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Alexander Lamont Bishop is the Interim Executive Director of INTBAU (the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism), where he leads a global network dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional building skills, architecture, and urbanism. With over a decade of experience in heritage and cultural preservation, Alexander previously served as Deputy Secretary General of…
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Behind John and Ginger Harkey’s home on Larch Street, the couple has long nursed a robust garden of pine trees and short bamboo bushes. Hidden inside the miniature forest is a large carriage house that had been on the property since they purchased the home in the 1980s. In fact, according to early maps of…
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Ahead of our upcoming event, The Intentional City, on September 12, we decided to sit down with one of our panelists to learn more about them. Spencer Williams has a background in architecture, advocacy, and policy; we wanted to know how these disciplines inform his approach to his work as Director of Land Use and…
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As the sun was setting on August 27, about two dozen people from a variety of neighborhoods on the West Side stood in a circle around two benches in Dexter Park to share their grievances with John Hope Settlement House (JHSH). The West End community center once provided a variety of services, including before and…
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Less than five years ago, the exterior of the home at 16 Carol Court in the West End was, in some ways, nondescript. The vinyl siding on the bottom half of the house was plain white, while the windows were framed with simple metal sheeting, white to match. The concrete front steps led up to…
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