A Seventeenth Century House Museum's Path to Preservation
The seventeenth century house museum in Lincoln found new life as a private home with a little help from Preserve Rhode Island.
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The seventeenth century house museum in Lincoln found new life as a private home with a little help from Preserve Rhode Island.
LINCOLN – Renovations are complete at one of the state’s oldest homes, and it’s ready to hit the market.
Preserve Rhode Island, a statewide nonprofit committed to preserving Rhode Island’s historic places for future generations, announced this week their plans to return the historic Valentine Whitman House (c. 1696) in Lincoln back into a private residence.
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Residential restorations keep long-running contractor busy BUSINESS IS BOOMING: Rob Cagnetta, owner of Heritage Restoration Inc. in Providence, and Marguerite Keyes, finishing specialist, work on restoring some windows. Cagnetta said Heritage is as busy as ever despite the COVID-19 pandemic because people are home more and discovering things they don’t like or that need to be fixed. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO If it still works, keep it. If it doesn’t work, fix it. That’s the principle behind historic preservation of family homes and other residential buildings, as practiced by ...