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Pawtucket Public Library to house collection
By Donna DiMichele | November 20, 2012
The collections of the Elizabeth J. Johnson Pawtucket History Research Center (PHRC), presently located in the basement of the Joseph Spaulding House, will be transferred to a dedicated and secure space at the Pawtucket Public Library as soon as the space is finished.
After an extensive strategic planning process, which included seeking partnership proposals from the Rhode Island Historical Society, Brown University, Slater Mill, the Pawtucket Public Library, and the Preservation Society of Pawtucket, the PHRC Board concluded that transferring ownership of the Research Collection and moving it to a dedicated and secure space at the Pawtucket Public Library and transferring ownership of the Spaulding house and its other collections to the Preservation Society of Pawtucket were the best ways to preserve the house and the collection.
Ownership of the historic Greek Revival style Joseph Spaulding House, built in 1828 and located at 30 Fruit Street, and its collections of antiques and decorative arts has been conveyed from the to the Preservation Society of Pawtucket.
The PHRC was founded ten years ago by Ms. E .J. Johnson as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission “to collect, preserve, enhance, and make available materials about Pawtucket.”
This story was adopted from the November 16, 2012, issue of Around the Block, Rhode Island Preservation News, an online publication of Preserve Rhode Island.
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