{"id":1349,"date":"2020-10-18T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2020-10-18T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:25:18","slug":"the-rhody-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"THE RHODY AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMING UP: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rhody Awards for Historic Preservation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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RIHPHC and Preserve Rhode Island are preparing a brand-new Rhody Awards experience. On\u00a0Sunday, November 15\u00a0, we will honor the 2020 winners:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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self-guided tour<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1-4pm. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Meet selected 2020 Rhody Award winners and visit their properties across the state. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets $50-$150.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Capitol TV broadcast<\/a>starting<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

6pm <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

from the Rhode Island State House. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Free.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Celebrate your favorite historic places and preservation heroes with Rhode Island’s growing preservation community!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TO WIT: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

How research guides preservation projects<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, the team renovating the\u00a0Wit Building\u00a0(c.1925) in downtown Providence reached out to RIHPHC for images of the original fa\u00e7ade. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The diminutive commercial building retained hints of its early-20th-century design \u2013 including a masonry cornice and a terrazzo threshold \u2013 but the upper stories had been completely covered by tile during a mid-20th-century renovation. Period images of the building, which housed long-time department store \u201cJean\u2019s\u201d from 1934 to 1982, were hard to come by.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Detective work\u00a0by RIHPHC staff uncovered a 1945 Providence Journal article describing a scale model of downtown that replicated \u201cevery window, every skylight\u2026even the color scheme of the area.\u201d A closer look revealed the Wit Building\u2019s original fa\u00e7ade and beveled, plate glass storefronts on the upper stories. The discovery guided the recreation of the historic appearance. Historic tax credits enabled the renovation of the Wit, Trayne (1893), and Lapham (1894) buildings, transforming two blocks of Westminster Street.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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COMING UP: Rhody Awards for Historic Preservation \u00a0 RIHPHC and Preserve Rhode Island are preparing a brand-new Rhody Awards experience. On\u00a0Sunday, November 15\u00a0, we will honor the 2020 winners:   self-guided tour 1-4pm. Meet selected 2020 Rhody Award winners and visit their properties across the state. Tickets $50-$150.   Capitol TV broadcaststarting 6pm from the<\/p>\n

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