On Thursday, February 25, we’ll present Bite-Sized Preservation: Advocacy 102, a revealing peek at how PPS develops its advocacy agenda and what successful advocacy looks like when it goes (mostly) right. Executive Director Brent Runyon will join our in-house advocacy expert, Rachel Robinson, in reviewing big wins and losses over the last decade, sharing what we’ve […]
Located in four city neighborhoods from the East Side to Elmwood, the eight featured gardens will exhibit a variety of plantings and contemporary interpretations of historic garden design. Six of the featured properties are private residential gardens located at historic houses. Green-thumbed homeowners have transformed their city backyards into urban sanctuaries by using water features, […]
Providence Preservation Society and Mile of History Association present a summer series of concerts in the Garden at Shakespeare's Head. To celebrate the success of this debut summer music series, PPS is also excited to offer a special encore Music in the Garden concert with up-and-coming opera singer Yohji Cantar Daquio on Sunday, September 18 at 4 pm. Her […]
April 13 // 9:30 am-1:00 pm $10 suggested donation // Register Rogers Rec Center // 60 Camden Avenue, Providence Presented by Providence Preservation Society Heritage. Who owns it? How do we use it? How do we change it? Hacking Heritage returns, now under the PPS umbrella. This one-day, participant-led gathering is open to anyone with an […]
On Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th, urban explorers have their pick of seven Jane’s Walks that will take place across Providence. Jane’s Walks are walking conversations that encourage people to share stories, discover unseen corners of their cities, and connect with one another. All walks are free and take place rain or shine; […]
On Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th, urban explorers have their pick of seven Jane’s Walks that will take place across Providence. Jane’s Walks are walking conversations that encourage people to share stories, discover unseen corners of their cities, and connect with one another. All walks are free and take place rain or shine; […]
Join Jeffrey Yoo-Warren and the Providence Preservation Society for a walking visit to Providence's Empire Street Chinatown, which existed until 1914. Open to the public. $15 PPS member// $20 general Registration required. On July 13, I’ll be leading a walking visit to Providence’s Empire Street Chinatown in relation to my Library of Congress project Hidden […]
Join Providence Preservation Society from 1:00 - 2:45 pm for this new interactive photography-based activity, using Knight Memorial Library as our base. We will start with an orientation on the history and architecture of Elmwood. Participants will then be given historic or contemporary photographs of building details or sites within a 3-block vicinity and challenged to find as many […]
This one-hour tour of Providence’s industrial waterfront is led by environmental activist Angel Ramos and landscape designer Fatema Maswood, who will discuss the community impacts of pollution caused by the port in South Providence and Washington Park, the critical work that neighbors are doing to reclaim this site, and the status of the Public Street […]
Welcome to Snowtown! Join Traci Picard and Kate Wells, members of the Snowtown Research Team, on a walk through this long-lost 19th-century neighborhood which once stood at the head of the Providence Cove. A diverse place of laborers and boarding-houses, entrepreneurs and immigrants, Snowtown is often remembered as a site of disorder…if it is remembered at all. […]
