(4.4) Head over to the Wedding Cake House Tuesday and get to know the cohort of artists from the final residency of the season. The public is invited to an Open House and Artist Talks where the amazing custom wallpapers, lighting fixtures, fireplaces, bathrooms, and wall art, threaten to overwhelm the senses. Beautiful stained glass, …
The Wedding Cake House residencies program will be hosting a series of youth workshops and they are free and open to the public. The workshops will be held on the lawn and are geared to kids between 9 and 12 years of age. Registration required. Workshops run from 1:30pm to 4pm. Wednesday, July 13: Shadow …
There is still work to be done on the Wedding Cake House before all the Dirt Palace plans come to fruition, but it is already a functioning art gallery, open to the public on Saturday afternoons. Up now, throughout all three floors, is “Ruffles, Repair & Ritual: the Fine Art of Fixing.” According to the …
(6.2) Every square inch of this enormous structure — inside and out — needed scraping, stripping, dipping, sanding, caulking, varnishing, and painting. Lots of painting. I have yet to see the “after” of the interior of this amazing project*, but I took a tour of the “before.” Since this photo — taken a year ago …
(5.23) Want to get a look inside this fabulous architectural gem? The Wedding Cake House — a fixture on the Providence Preservation Society’s (PPS) Most Endangered Properties List for years — now sports a new coat of buttercream frosting. Xander Marro, Pippi Zornoza, and their fabulous crew of volunteers, should be praised for taking on …
Is there a building in your neighborhood in on life-support? Teetering on the brink but full of potential? The Providence Preservation Society (PPS) is taking nominations for the next ‘Most Endangered Properties’ list. (Click here to fill out online nomination form. Deadline October 30th.) More info at Greater City: Providence. Every year, PPS assembles the …
Good news for fans of the gorgeous, historically significant, but seriously delapidated, Victorian pile known as the ‘wedding cake house’ up on Broadway — it has been purchased for $210,000 by Community Works Rhode Island, who plan to work with the Providence Revolving fund to transform it into affordable condominiums. From 1915 to 1947 the …