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Demolition Alert
Updated 20 October, 2024: Added post-fire photos of the former warehouse. Partial demolition of a 195%+ building will occur.
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Demolition Alert
Added 28 August, 2024: A beautifully detailed late 19th-century double house will succumb to the wrecking ball in favor of more of the same modern apartment building design
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Demolition Alert
Added 30 December, 2023: A rare “Collegiate Gothic”-style high school faces potential demolition as educators and the public struggle with the complex emotions surrounding a quality public education
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Demolition Alert
Added 16 September, 2023: Two buildings on a prominent corner of Wickenden Street face demolition in favor of a five-story 62 unit apartment building
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Added 24 October, 2024: A low set of one-story buildings built into a hill along Valley Street have been razed for… something, we’re not sure
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Updated 21 October, 2024: Added recent photos of the western wing of the complex
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Added 14 October, 2024: A tiny former boiler house becomes a popular bar with a large cultural impact on Providence’s waterfront
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Updated 13 October, 2024: Added three new photos from the PPS Architectural Slides Collection
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Updated 13 October, 2024: Added more news stories about the pending sale of the property
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Added 22 September, 2024: A history of the diner, from lunch wagon to prefabricated, quick to install and affordable to purchase restaurant, slinging all the breakfast and lunch standards we have come to love
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The Art of Ruins — This week’s artful image
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Added 20 September, 2024: An almost 10-acre property on the corner of routes 2 and 102 in North Kingstown are soon to become 22 apartment buildings
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Added 17 September, 2024: A beautiful Second-Empire style, iron storefront, six-story commercial building on the edge of Exchange Place until a fire destroyed it in 1925
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Updated 9 September, 2024: Added photos of the demolition provided by David Lawlor
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Added 16 August, 2024: The two types of Historic Districts are very different, and in Providence, while 28% of the City is documented on the National Register, only 7% has the protections that Local Historic Districts can offer.
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Added 15 August, 2024: A former catholic school has been vacant since 2009 while plans to create new residences have yet to happen
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Updated 10 August, 2024: Added three more images of the now empty lot from Chestnut Street
#WhatAreTheyBuilding: Under Construction
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Added 21 October, 2024: The first new residential facility built at RISD in 34 years offers 148 rooms to first-year students
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Added 6 September, 2024: A contemporary white box sits atop a ribbon of glass and contains a flexible set of performance spaces that can be configured in multiple ways
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Added 29 August, 2024: A new five-story, 127-unit development breaks ground with phase 1 in 2023
Also! The list of new building proposals we are keeping an eye on.
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