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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We are proud to announce that we have received funding from The Champlin Foundation to enable PPS to
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2019 Preservation Award Winners 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 Arts Center, 475 Valley Street Providence River Pedestrian Bridge Click here for full details on our…
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South Street Landing has been awarded the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award. This award celebrates the best of the best in historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and South Street Landing is among three national award recipients this year. Constructed in 1912 and ultimately decommissioned in 1995, this former electrical power plant sat empty…
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Use our mobile architecture guide to explore the buildings and neighborhoods that make Providence
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The Crook Point Bascule Bridge is an object with a great deal of historic, cultural and artistic significance to the community. With the rail infrastructure in downtown Providence nearly erased, the Crook Point Bridge is a tangible reminder of the railroad network that shipped goods around the world, helping Providence achieve status as one of…
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