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Providence
the Rhode Island Historical
Society’s annual SummerWalks program begins Friday June 15, 2007 and continues
through October 15, 2007.
Two themed walks form the base of the summer program.
Benefit Street: A Mile of History
A 90 minute walking tour
Tuesdays through Saturdays at 11 a.m.
Tickets: $12/person
The tour begins at the John Brown House, 52 Power Street
Questions: Barbara Barnes, 401-273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
This walk explores the changing fortunes of Providence’s most well known
thoroughfare and recounts the role of historic preservation in revitalizing this
vital College Hill neighborhood.
RiverWalk: Before the Fires are Lit
A 60 minute walking tour
On evenings of full WaterFire lightings at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10/person
The Tour begins at the John Brown House, 52 Power Street
Questions: Barbara Barnes, 401-273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
This walk shares the stories of the Providence waterfront and its early
development while introducing the phenomenon known as WaterFire.
The RiverWalk is offered in collaboration with WaterFire Providence.
Reservations for all walks are welcome but not necessary unless there is a group
of 6 or more.
Providence (Providence
Preservation Society)
The College Hill Tour demonstrates the years from
1636-1775 beginning at the Roger Williams National Memorial on North Main
Street, Providence. Some of the earliest buildings in Providence are along this
walk: Old Brick Schoolhouse, Shakespeare's Head, First Baptist Church of
America. The architectural details, street layouts show historic preservation in
an existing neighborhood. The fabric of European, Native American, and African
historic players seeking freedom (religious, etc) can be seen along this area.
The Downtown Tour shows the hub of commercial, civic
and transportation systems. From footpaths of the native Americans to the
elegance of the growing wealth and grandeur, this walk passes by The Biltmore,
Hotel, City Hall, the Arcade and the Fleet Center Galleria after beginning at
Waterplace Park.
The Avi Tour is based upon the suspense novel,
Something Upstairs by award winning author Avi. It highlights Providence in the
1800s highlighting the buildings in the novel that connect our historical past to
modern day. The slave trade was very active in this area in the 1800s.
Pawtucket
A collaborative effort, The Pawtucket Path
to Health, was developed by the Irish Heart Foundation and is brought to
Pawtucket by the RI Prevention Coalition, the American Heart Association and
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. There is no beginning nor an end to these
paths as they are all interconnected. Take a walk passing the tower of City Hall
along Roosevelt Avenue, then turning at Exchange Street to move up High Street
onto the Pawtucket Library and the YMCA. Then keep going to walk down Main
Street along many possible stops for shopping and browsing before turning at the
Registry of Motor Vehicles and moving up to Park Place and onto George Street to
pass along the Congregational and Episcopal Churches. As you cross Rte 95,
you will notice St. Mary's School, Hospice Care of RI and the famous Modern
Diner.
Other Pawtucket walks include moving
towards East Avenue with more places to shop and browse before reaching Shea
High School. Then to view lovely homes along Lyman Street to Pleasant Street,
saunter, jog or run past Francis Valeur School on Bowles Street and then on to
Taft Street. Then take a turn at Spencer returning to Pleasant Street and on to
Division Street and the wonderful bridge over the Blackstone River. Water
Street is home to the Portugese Social Club as it nears School Street.
Then paralleling the River, walk by the Boys and Girls Club before a turn on
Service Road.
Approaching Prospect Street brings the Hank
Soar Athletic Center to site before moving on to the Memorial Hospital of Rhode
Island and its Primary Care Center which then takes walkers to Pond and Brewster
Streets. This leads us to the Community Counseling Center where a turn leads to
the Pawtucket Red Sox McCoy Stadium! Then, a walk along South Bend Street
passes the J Jenckes High School and the Agnes Little School before walking past
a series of magnificent homes on Walcott Street, including Quality Hill, St
Raphael's Academy and several important churches. Lastly, this brings us back to
the corner of Roosevelt Avenue, the site of the Pawtucket Visitors center,
across from the historic Slater Mill. Keep walking for your health and explore
our past and present!
But that's only the start! The Arboretum at
Riverside offers mere scenic beauty or thorough studies of hundreds of
shrubs, trees or birds. Or for great architectural sites, join the Preservation
Society of Pawtucket's tour of Victorians, Greek Revivals or colonial mill
houses. The Pawtucket Public Library's two historic buildings are on the National
Register of Historic Places. The Deborah Cook Sayles Memorial
Library 's doorway depicts a Greek Temple on the Acropolis at Athens. Their
panels highlight scenes from the early major global civilizations. The Gerald
S. Burns Building is also worth a visit. Also accepted on the National
Register of Historic Places as the nation's first diner, the Modern built
in the 1930s. Pawtucket's also home to the Silver Top Diner, one of the
oldest Kullman diners in New England. Check out more about Pawtucket,
too.
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