About
this Site
This site is the result of an informal partnership between the
Providence Preservation Society
(PPS) and The Providence Plan.
We hope that this resource facilitates and enhances research
as well as provides an example of how historic building inventories
can be made easily accessible on the internet.
Introduction
The Providence Preservation Society (PPS) and the Rhode Island
Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (RIHPHC)
sponsored an update of the Providence Industrial Buildings
Survey, first published by the RIHPHC in 1981 under the title
Providence Industrial Sites...(more)
Methodology
Local and state repositories containing materials pertinent
to the project were searched to identify existing documentary
resources. The survey team reviewed available secondary sources
to develop an understanding of important themes, trends, and
events that shaped Providence’s industrial heritage
and gather information about the types of resources likely
to be encountered in the field...(more)
Incentives
City, state and federal governments are presently cooperating
with local nonprofit, corporate interests, developers, artists
and other constituencies to develop legislation, economic
incentives, surveys and programs to encourage the preservation
of the city’s industrial heritage...(more)
Bibliography
An extensive list of sources ...(more)
Mapping
The searchable database is linked to an Internet Map Server
(IMS) application that lets the user create customized maps
of the Building Site in its context...(more)
Questions? Contact Jim
Lucht
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| What's New |
| 9/26/2007
Building Inventory: Data
collected by the Partnership for Creative Industrial Space
(PCIS) reveal a vast and diverse commercial sector operating
within the Industrial and Commercial Building District
(ICBD). Business information by building is now included
in the database. (More…) |
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