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A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT: Marisa Angell Brown, Providence Preservation Society executive director, is eagerly awaiting the redevelopment of the former Providence Journal headquarters at Westminster and Eddy streets in downtown Providence. The building has been mostly vacant for more than a decade. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Old ProJo Building revival getting closer to reality

For more than a century, 203 Westminster St. has stood like a baroque sentinel in downtown Providence – a grand Beaux-Arts building that once...

Atlantic Mills has new owner

PROVIDENCE – The historic Atlantic Mills officially has a new owner. The sale of the 350,000-square-foot brick mill complex located in the Olneyville neighborhood closed...

Historic Providence home and setting for ‘The Shunned House’ sells for...

PROVIDENCE – Constructed in 1764, a single-family home with a famed literary connection on the East Side of Providence recently sold for $1.8 million,...

Preservation society sells Shakespeare’s Head Building to nonprofit for $750K

PROVIDENCE – The historic Shakespeare’s Head Building has been sold.  The house at 21 Meeting St. in the College Hill Historic District was sold to...
Marisa Angell Brown has been the Providence Preservation Society’s executive director since October 2023. She previously served as associate director of the Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Phase in changes

Marisa Angell Brown | Providence Preservation Society executive director No matter what your organization or business does, 2025 is shaping up to be a year...

Philanthropy Calendar, Feb. 26, 2025

If a nonprofit wants an upcoming fundraiser to be considered for a calendar listing, email information to Nonprofit@PBN.com or Bessette@PBN.com at least four weeks...
THE ATLANTIC MILLS Complex on Manton Avenue in Providence has been listed among the Providence Preservation Society's 2025 Most Endangered Places. / PBN FILE PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Providence Preservation Society lists 2025 most endangered places

PROVIDENCE – An armory building that had been a focal point of developmental controversy in recent years, the state’s tallest skyscraper and an old...

11 local organizations, 1 artist receive $300K in national arts funding

PROVIDENCE – Eleven local arts entities and an individual artist received a combined $300,000 in National Endowment for the Arts grants to support various...

Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce moving headquarters to Broad Street

PROVIDENCE- The Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is relocating its headquarters after purchasing the historic James Potter House in the Elmwood section of...

Alex and Ani founder donates former Jewish temple to Center for...

PROVIDENCE – A local businesswoman has donated the historic former Temple Beth El synagogue on Broad Street to the Center for Southeast Asians.  The vacant...
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