Providence Preservation Society
Annual Meeting and Preservation Lecture featuring William Morgan, Architectural Historian and Author
The 52nd Annual Meeting will be held this Thursday, January 21, at the Beneficent Congregational Church (300 Weybosset Street, Providence RI) beginning at 5:30pm. A preservation lecture by William Morgan, an architectural historian and widely published author, will be featured.
The Volunteer of the Year Award, recognizing an individual who has shown exceptional dedication to the projects and programs of the Society as a volunteer, and the President’s Award, honoring an individual who has contributed significantly to the Society’s endeavors, will be announced. Martha Buonanno, PPS Trustee 2006-2009, will be honored with a memorial dedication.
A reception will follow the meeting. Attendees will meet William Morgan and PPS trustees and staff and explore the architecture and beauty of the Beneficent Congregational Church (ca.1810). The Church, founded as a meeting place for secular as well as sacred purposes, is celebrating its bicentennial in 2010, and the PPS Annual Meeting will be among its commemorative events.
This event is free and open to the public.
