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Coming up: Don't set Ike a-spinnin' in his grave

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By David Brussat    Email

Thursday's column will be about the counterproposals generated by a countercompetition generated by the official decision to choose Frank Gehry to design a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Can anything more silly and undignified be imagined? But in fact,......

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 Tags  Alaska   Capitol   David Brussat   Design Competition   Eisenhower Memorial   Marianne Casuto   Pritzker Prize   Thom Mayne  

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Blast from the past: The Dreyfus Hotel story

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By David Brussat    Email

Some readers might have attended the ribbon-cutting at the Mercantile Block yesterday. I have a yen to reprint my column about AS220's renovation of its next-door neighbor, the Dreyfus Hotel. Here is that column, "Artful restoration of the Dreyfus Hotel,"......

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 Tags  Architecture   Art   AS220   Dreyfus Hotel   Lucie Searle   Mercantile Block   Preservation   Providence RI  

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Architecture cartoon about cartoon architecture

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By David Brussat    Email

Thanks to George Osner for sending this to the Pro-Urb list.......

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 Tags  Architecture   Cartoon   Earthquakes   Frank Gehry  

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Column: Mercantile Block blooms for AS220

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By David Brussat    Email

Above: The Mercantile Block, circa 1915, on Washington Street in downtown Providence (AS220/Providence Public Library) * * * The Mercantile Block before its renovation * * * Mercantile Block after its renovation * * * Rear of Mercantile Block......

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 Tags  Architecture   AS220   David Brussat   John Fitzhugh Millar   Lucie Searle   Mercantile Block   Newport RI   Newport Tower   Preservation   Providence RI  

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Coming up: Big day on Washington Street

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By David Brussat    Email

So why is that Westminster Street pictured above? Read on. Next Monday a ribbon will be cut to dedicate AS220's new Mercantile Block, which the arts cooperative has raised from the near dead. I did not have enough space......

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 Tags  AS220   David Brussat   Don King   Donald Powers   Mercantile Block   Providence Black Repertory Company   Providence RI  

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Column: Who really built Newport's old tower?

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By David Brussat    Email

Old postcard of Touro Park's tower, circa 1900, in Newport * * * Another postcard, of romantic tower in ivy * * * Jim Egan's Newport Tower Museum, est. 2010, near the tower in Touro Park * * *......

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 Tags  Architecture   Colonization   David Brussat   History   Jim Egan   John Dee   Newport RI   Newport Tower   Newport Tower Museum   Queen Elizabeth II   Rhode Island   William Penhallow  

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Coming up: Now the truth about the Newport tower?

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By David Brussat    Email

Can't really say. Jim Egan, who runs the Newport Tower Museum, on Mill Street across from the tower in Touro Park, has studied the origins of the tower that has variously been attributed to the Vikings, the Knights Templar,......

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 Tags  Bill of Rights   Catholics   Constitution   David Brussat   Jim Egan   John Dee   Newport RI   Newport Tower   Newport Tower Museum   Queen Elizabeth I   Religious Freedom   Renaissance   William Pennhallow  

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