Eleven Rhody Award winners named

VALLEY AFFORDABLE Housing will receive a Rhody Award next month for its rehab and new construction project  in Cumberland’s Ashton Village, a planned community built in the 1860s for mill workers. / COURTESY R.I. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & HERITAGE COMMISSION
VALLEY AFFORDABLE Housing will receive a Rhody Award next month for its rehab and new construction project in Cumberland’s Ashton Village, a planned community built in the 1860s for mill workers. / COURTESY R.I. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION & HERITAGE COMMISSION

PROVIDENCE – The Rhody Awards for historic preservation will be given to 11 recipients on Oct. 16.
The eighth annual awards celebration will be held at Rosecliff in Newport from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
Preserve Rhode Island and the R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission chose the award winners, which include individuals, organizations and projects that have contributed to the preservation of Rhode Island’s historic places.
They include a master craftsman of architectural sheet metal, longtime preservationists from East Providence and Newport, a community museum in a Bristol carriage barn and a historic bridge that became a public park.
The 2016 awards include:

  • David J. Kelleher, of East Providence, who has educated everyone from second-graders to city council members about the historic places of East Providence, will receive the Antoinette F. Downing Volunteer Service Award.
  • Robert P. Foley, of Newport, will be recognized for his contributions to the historic preservation movement in the City by the Sea. He will receive the Frederick C. Williamson Professional Leadership Award.
  • Andrew J. Panciotti Sr., of Providence, a master architectural sheet metal mechanic who also mentors fellow workers and students, will receive the Stephen J. Tyson Sr. Artisan Award.
  • Dylan Peacock and Miki G. Kicić will receive the Homeowner Award; the first-time homeowners undertook the hands-on restoration of the Cook-Cohen House (1911) in Providence’s Elmwood neighborhood.

Winning project awards are:

  • Valley Affordable Housing, for its rehab and new construction project in Cumberland’s Ashton Village, a planned community built in the 1860s for mill workers.
  • Bristol Art Museum, for the adaptive reuse of the Linden Place Carriage Barn (1866) for galleries, artists’ studios and public classrooms.
  • Lila Delman Real Estate, which bought a fixer-upper, the historic Earle Warehouse (1784), and rehabbed it for its new Providence office.
  • TAI-O Real Estate Group, for completing the residential conversion of a sprawling mill complex in Central Falls with the rehabilitation of the historic Elizabeth Webbing.
  • Providence Revolving Fund, Lori Quinn and Dave Stem, for preserving a key block of Washington Street by rehabilitating the endangered George C. Arnold Building (1923).
  • The Arc of Blackstone Valley, for rehabbing the Heaton & Cowing Mill (1832, 1926) in Providence to provide apartments for homeless or nearly homeless veterans.
  • R.I. Department of Transportation, for converting the endangered Washington Bridge (1928-1930) into the Washington Bridge Linear Park, a new open space in a historic place that links the communities of East Providence and Providence.

The Rhode Island Preservation Celebration and Rhody Awards event is open to the public. Tickets cost $40 before Oct. 12 or $45 at the door. To buy a ticket or request more information, call (401) 272-5101 or visit www.preserveri.org.

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