St. James Commons
After many years of disrepair, fire and water damage Lerner | Ladds + Bartels, Inc. teamed up with Peoples Redevelopment Corporation to help revitalize these two long forgotten houses back to their original days of grandeur. These two, 3-story 3-family houses required a complete interior and exterior renovation to be modeled after the neighboring historic James H. Hagan house of 1891. Along with the numerous repairs, Peoples Redevelopment Corporation requested the houses to be moved from their existing foundations down three city blocks, through a busy section of Providence, to their new resting place. This is all part of a larger neighborhood revitalization program that has been undertaken by Peoples Redevelopment Corporation and the City of Providence. Through multiple coordination meetings with L | L + B, the house movers, the contractor and all City of Providence utility companies, each house was raised, moved and settled in under 2 weeks. The move itself arose quite stir in the neighborhood with many of the families coming out to witness the houses rolling through the main street. The complete refurbishment of the houses is now in progress.


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