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On Thursday, January 23, PPS hosted its 2020 Annual Meeting at the Preservation Award-winning Pavilion at Grace Church. A video of the full meeting is available here. Marisa Angell Brown presented the keynote lecture, Inheritance: What We Preserve and Why. One of the best-known images of the preservation movement of the last century shows Jane Jacobs, Philip Johnson,…
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On Thursday, January 24, Tom Mayes, Vice President and Senior Counsel for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, delivered a keynote lecture on “Why Old Places Matter” at our 61st Annual Meeting. Mr. Mayes is the author of many articles relating to, and has lectured widely on, preservation easements, shipwreck protection, historic house museums, accessibility,…
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Landscape architect and director of the Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Ron Henderson, FASLA delivered the keynote address of the 2018 Providence Symposium. His talk on cultural landscapes included inspiration for his design of CityWalk. Henderson, with Phoebe Blake and Dan Baudouin, received the PPS Preservation Initiative Award for…
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In celebration of its ongoing restoration by the Dirt Palace, this special lecture on May 23 by local author Taylor Polites explored stories from the Kendrick-Prentice-Tirocchi House, aka the Wedding Cake House. In case you were not able to attend the lecture, check out this video and learn all about this piece of Providence’s past!…
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