West End Gateway Design Competition
**The Competition winners have been announced!** Looking for something to occupy your time during isolation? We have just the thing: a design competition!
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**The Competition winners have been announced!** Looking for something to occupy your time during isolation? We have just the thing: a design competition!
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Updated 9/22/20 In accordance with Rhode Island’s Phase III re-opening plan, the PPS offices are now open by appointment only. All visitors must wear a mask and comply with social distancing guidelines while they are inside the building. PPS staff will be in the office on a rotating schedule from Monday – Thursday. Please contact…
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From the desk of Brent Runyon, Executive Director of the Providence Preservation Society Over the last week, more than a dozen people forwarded me an opinion piece in the New York Times with the provocative headline “When Historic Preservation Hurts Cities.” Questions flooded in about how the Providence Preservation Society would respond and whether the…
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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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The Providence Preservation Society announced the 2020 Most Endangered Properties List at our Annual Meeting
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For over 25 years, PPS has worked with concerned neighbors, owners, and activists to develop the annual MEP List. Its purpose is to generate interest in and support for the preservation of vulnerable structures; to educate the public about the benefits of historic preservation and the diverse architectural resources in Providence; and to foster creative…
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We are proud to announce that we have received funding from The Champlin Foundation to enable PPS to
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The 2019 Preservation Awards were held on November 21, 2019 and celebrated projects completed during the preceding two years. The Pavilion at Grace, 300 Westminster Street 60 King, 60 King Street The Winslow Building, 225 Weybosset Street Bomes Theatre, 1017 Broad Street A.T. Cross Building, 53 Warren Street Almy Street School, 14 Meader Street WaterFire…
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