photo courtesy RIHPHC
The City of East Providence will receive a $7,500 grant to prepare a historic structures report for the long-vacant Shingle-style Oddfellows Hall built in 1889 in the Watchemoket Square neighborhood.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Eight grants totaling about $54,500 is going to five local historic preservation programs, the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission announced Friday.
Bristol, Cranston, East Providence, Providence, and Warwick will get money for a variety of preservation activities such as a smartphone app for historic neighborhood walking tours in Bristol, a mapping study of early colonial settlements in Warwick, architectural assessments of several historic buildings, including the Oddfellows Hall in East Providence, survey and documentation of a National Register district in Edgewood, a planning study of a historic industrial plant in Bristol, and revisions to the design review program for downtown Providence.