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275 Elmwood Avenue
Providence, RI 02907 United States Get Directions
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PPS Presents: Scavenger Hunt at Knight Memorial Library

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

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 […]

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Light Up the Knight! Knight Memorial Library Turns 100

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Don't Miss It: "Light Up the Knight" is a free, outdoor concert to Kick Off Centennial Celebrations at the Knight Memorial Library.  This special outdoor event, which marks the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the iconic Knight Memorial Library, will feature award-winning Dominican-American salsa star EhShawnee, music from DJ Trackstar and a performance from […]

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RI CHI Traveling Exhibit @ Knight Memorial Library, Providence

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

See the 2022 Rhode Island Civic Health Index traveling exhibit at Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Ave, Providence, RI 02907 from March 14 - 28. See library website for open hours. The 2022 Rhode Island Civic Health Index (CHI)—the first ever for the state—draws upon data-driven indicators and information about diverse connections to civic life. The […]

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2021 PROVIDENCE LATINO BOOK & ARTS FAIR | FERIA DE LIBRO Y LAS ARTES DE PROVIDENCE

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Providence Community Library cordially invites you to save the date for the 2021 Providence Latino Book & Arts Fair to be held virtually on September 20-23 and September 27-30, 6-7.30pm, with an in-person event on September 25 to be hosted at Knight Memorial Library, 11-2.00pm. Our bilingual Fair will feature Latino, Latina and Latinx artists, performers and writers […]

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“Historic Elmwood Houses: An Architect’s View Inside and Out”

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Our experience of historic houses is most often framed by exterior appearances. We come to identify and understand historic time periods and changing styles of architecture through build-ing forms, rooflines, materials, and even paint colors. These are the elements of a public realm accessible to all. Exterior patterns can build whole neighborhoods and clearly reflect […]

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“The Knights of Elmwood”

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

Originally from a poor family of farmers, Benjamin Brayton Knight (1813-1898) and his younger brother, Robert Brayton Knight (1826-1912), became some of the most successful late nine-teenth-century entrepreneurs in the state of Rhode Island. Their firm, B.B. & R. Knight & Co., was famed for its “Fruit of the Loom” trademark, and their cotton manufacturing […]

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Mobile Museum of American Artifacts (MMoAA)

Knight Memorial Library 275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI, United States

The Mobile Museum of American Artifacts (MMoAA) is a touring museum of personal objects and their histories. Housed in a small vintage trailer, MMoAA travels from town to town, conducting an “archeology of the present” that uncovers objects of significant (and insignificant) connection to everyday American life. MMoAA will be making its debut visit to […]