Providence Preservation Society

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. […]