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We sure do hope you make plans to join us in Shake

We sure do hope you make plans to join us in Shakespeare’s Garden for our entire season of Music in the Garden! 🌿 First up this Wednesday 5/18– Alexus Lee! (ICYMI, there’s a great Q&A with the singer-songwriter in @pvdmonthly ). Space is limited, but a few tickets remain for the May concert. We hope to see you in person this summer! 🎶 Big thanks our Music in the Garden partner, Mile of History Association! 🌳 #providence #pvd #rhodeisla #getoutside #musicinthegarden #livemusic #shakespeareshead #garden #meetingstreet #collegehill #singersongwriter #alexuslee #markyourcalendars #musicseries #benefitstreet #mileofhistory #colonialrevivalgarden

Owing to industrialization in the 19th-century, Ol

Owing to industrialization in the 19th-century, Olneyville is home to many mill buildings. Distinct among them stands Atlantic Delaine Co. Mills (1863) with its circular towers featuring high ribbed domes. This mill complex historically included a collection of buildings on Manton Avenue, as they fed off the power source provided by the Woonasquatucket River. Additionally small workers cottages stretched westward along Manton Avenue, originally nearly sixty ran along the street which provide a rare example of company built housing in Providence.
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This week of Preservation Month we are highlightin

This week of Preservation Month we are highlighting the rich history and architecture found in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood! St. Teresa of Avila Church (c. 1880s) was built in the later part of the 19th century, when the diverse and growing population of highly industrialized Olneyville necessitated the construction of a Roman Catholic church. The church’s construction of red brick stands out as part of a shifting point, as churches began to pivot away from the more traditional Gothic architecture style. While the building has been closed to the public since 2009, it has been featured twice on PPS’ list of Most Endangered Properties and over the years interest has been expressed in seeing the space converted for community or library use. While the future of the building remains unknown, it’s presence reminds us of its past & those who once created the demand for its construction and who once filled it’s halls.
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Join us on Thursday, June 2 at the historic Sarah

Join us on Thursday, June 2 at the historic Sarah T. Harrison House (1904) for an exclusive Festival Preview Party. Located in the heart of College Hill, the home was designed by local architects Howard K. Hilton and F. Ellis Jackson. Guests will enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres, a full bar, and a chance to explore all this beautiful historic Colonial Revival home has to offer. Tickets are on sale now via the link in our bio & include admission to Saturday’s house tours.
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PPS’ annual Most Endangered Properties List is b

PPS’ annual Most Endangered Properties List is but one preservation tool we use to call attention to struggling or vulnerable historic properties. Here are three from the 2022 list (l to r): Rhodes Street Historic District on the NR (buildings c. 1855-1915), Cathedral of St. John (1810), Prince Hall Masonic Temple (1893). We’re hopeful about the future of all of this year’s MEPs! #providence #pvd #mostendangered #mep #preservationmonth #savingplaces #historicpreservation #nationalregister #historicdistrict #rhodesstreet #cathedral #stjohn #johnholdengreene #princehall #masonictemple

Can’t deny it: we love old buildings. We work ev

Can’t deny it: we love old buildings. We work everyday to preserve buildings and places that are important to Providence. What we really love, though, is meeting the people behind historic properties— those doing the work of preservation everyday in big and small ways. We especially love to meet those who are redefining and challenging the norms of historic preservation. This includes our friends @hausofglitterdanceco who are completely rethinking a Colonial property. Bravo! ✨May is Preservation Month! We invite you to dive in! #providence #pvd #rhodeisland #history #historicpreservation #preservationmonth #esekhopkins #hausofglitter #architecture #preservation #peoplesavingplaces

May is National Preservation Month! ☀️🏛🏡

May is National Preservation Month! ☀️🏛🏡🏫 ☀️

While we're just as committed to historic preservation the other 11 months of the year, this is our chance to celebrate the people and places -- and our love of Providence -- at the heart of this work.

We hope you'll join us for a Jane's Walk, or wander a new-to-you neighborhood, or advocate for desirable place-based policies in your community, or meet up with neighbors to enjoy music in our garden, or learn about Providence's historic districts, or get your stubborn wooden windows in shape for summer.

For the rest of the month, we'll be sharing some of the places and faces who make preservation an essential, everyday practice in Providence.
#providence #pvd #rhodeisland #newengland #architecture #historicpreservation #preservation #preservationmonth #peoplesavingplaces #savingplaces #adaptivereuse #climateaction #conservation #janeswalk #community #advocacy

Now presenting: Architecture Bracket Round 2! Winn

Now presenting: Architecture Bracket Round 2! Winners from the first round will be voted on this week, with the grand finale will be this weekend. Up first we have Queen Anne Style & Gothic Revival. The Thomas Leavens House was built by architects Gould and Angell in 1855. Located in the Elmwood neighborhood, it stands out for its Queen Anne style amongst a sea of Colonial Revival homes. The challenger, the Providence Marine Corps Artillery Arsenal (1839) located in College Hill, is on the National Register of Historic Places. This building, designed by Tallman & Buckin, originally sat one lot south, before being moved to its current location during the construction of a railroad tunnel in 1906. Who’s you’re favorite?!
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Happy 200th birthday to the father of American lan

Happy 200th birthday to the father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted! The famed parkmaker’s home and office—the world’s first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design— today make up the FLO National Historic Site in Brookline, Mass (seen here). Search “Olmsted” on our online Guide to Providence Architecture to find examples of his influence and commissions in our city’s cultural landscape. #fredericklawolmsted #flo #bicentennial #happybirthday #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #homeoffice #wfh #nationalhistoricsite #nps #brookline #providence #park #landscape #onlineguide #providencearchitecture

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