Arts to fill next chapter for historic ‘Wedding Cake House’

STORIED HISTORY: Providence's "Wedding Cake House," once home to A. & L. Tirocchi, a design and dressmaking company run by Anna Tirocchi and Laura Tirocchi Cella in 1915, continues its tradition of hosting women-run businesses. It has been purchased by the Dirt Palace, a feminist arts-based organization. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS
STORIED HISTORY: Providence's "Wedding Cake House," once home to A. & L. Tirocchi, a design and dressmaking company run by Anna Tirocchi and Laura Tirocchi Cella in 1915, continues its tradition of hosting women-run businesses. It has been purchased by the Dirt Palace, a feminist arts-based organization. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Any 150-year-old building still standing is bound to have a storied history, and the Kendrick-Prentice-Tirocchi House, locally known as the “Wedding Cake House” in Providence, is no exception. The Italianate-style mansion at 514 Broadway St. on Federal Hill was first built as a home for John Kendrick, a manufacturer of loom harnesses in the 19th

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