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Ten Most Endangered Properties — Former RIDOT Headquarters

Leave a Comment / Preservation / By H.L. Parker / 05/31/2012 06/01/2012 / architecture, PPSRI, Preservation

Little fixer-upper here. Not new to the Providence Preservation Society’s Ten Most Endangered Properties List, but this 1927 edifice had taken a few years off for additional shambles-enhancement. A two-story Art Deco building with a flat roof and pier-and-spandrel construction, the former headquarters for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is one of the only …

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Broad Street Temple Needs Help

Leave a Comment / architecture, History / By Beth Comery / 06/02/2010 06/02/2010 / PPSRI, providence preservation society, synagogues, Temple Beth El

A second installment from the Providence Preservation Society’s 2010 Most Endangered Properties series — the old Temple Beth El at 688 Broad Street (1910-1911). Like the previously discussed Atlantic Mills Towers it suffers from being a hulking pile in a difficult location (in a more than difficult economy). What can be done with this thing? …

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