A Walking Conversation on the Past and Future of Benefit Street
HOURS
Sat, May 5; 10am-11:30am
MEETING POINT
Corner of Jenckes Street and Benefit Street
ENDING POINT
Thomas Street at the Providence Art Club and the First Baptist Church
WALK DESCRIPTION
Benefit Street is recognized nationally for its extraordinary Colonial, Federal and Victorian architecture and its pioneering preservation at a time of Urban Renewal. Its multi-layered history of social, economic, ethnic and architectural change continues to unfold as new pressures, threats and opportunities emerge. Walk and talk with long-time resident Tim More about the importance of the past and the possibilities for the future of this College Hill landmark thoroughfare.
WALK LEADER: Tim More
Tim More is a real estate attorney, architectural historian and community activist who, with his wife, has lived over 47 years in the house they restored on Benefit Street — aka as the Shunned House from the story of that name written by H.P. Lovecraft.
timmore@tmorelaw.com
