After the Duck and Bunny, How Do We Save These Old Houses?
In the name of fancy cupcakes, a Federal-style building in Fox Point was razed to rubble. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 9, 2021
The aftermath. The owner of Duck and Bunny demolished its historic home in Providence with plans to rebuild the restaurant for a 2022 re-opening. (Photo credit: Scott Moran)
In the wake of the Easter weekend demolition of a Federal-style building on Wickenden Street in Providence’s Fox Point neighborhood, public opinion fell into two camps:
“How horrible that you decided to destroy the character of the neighborhood by tearing down an historic building. Definitely not patronizing your company anytime in the future.”
Festival of Gardens to feature private community gardens at historical homes
THE FESTIVAL OF GARDENS will include self-guided tours of historical gardens, including the colonial revival garden behind the Shakespeare s Head Building in College Hill in Providence. / PBN PHOTO/MARY MACDONALD
PROVIDENCE – A Festival of Gardens, featuring eight private gardens, will be held in mid-June by the Providence Preservation Society in partnership with the Garden Conservancy.
Self-led tours on June 12 will include private gardens at several historic homes in four neighborhoods, as well as a community garden and a colonial revival garden at the Shakespeare’s Head Building stewarded by the preservation society.
PHOTO: PPS
The Providence Preservation Society (PPS) is hosting a special Festival of Gardens taking place on June 12-13 presented in partnership with The Garden Conservancy.
Those attending will have exclusive access to a selection of private gardens at historic homes, a community garden that celebrates the city’s diversity, and a Colonial Revival garden stewarded by PPS.
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.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
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The HDC s role is merely to give conceptual review (the City Planning Commission has already given its approval). Yet every commission member and witnesses spoke out against the dormitories. Beyond the issue of impacted empty lots on Power Street, the meeting was essentially a gripe session about Brown s imperiousness and lack of transparency.
Complaints centered mostly on the questions of scale, and the inappropriateness of such a massive block (five stories and 80,000 square feet) in an older streetscape. Councilman John Goncalves called the dorms not aesthetically or functionally in tune with the neighborhood. Local resident Lily Bogosian bemoaned that the new buildings will be a dark shadow in our lives.