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Rhode Island's long-abandoned Milk Can:

The sawmill sleeps, its machines rusted and quiet.
She leans into the silence, breathing life into forgotten timber.
For a heartbeat, the past stirs.

#AbandonedPlaces #RomanticDecay #ForgottenBeauty #IndustrialRomance #TimelessWhispers #LostAndFound #RustAndLight #SilentStories #ArtInRuins

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Hi! Welcome to the Wedding Cake House in Providence RI which was restored by feminist art collective Dirt Palace and now houses tourists and artist residencies!

No millionaires involved, but a ton of local artists coming together as community

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A fun PVD moment: last night, I got dinner on Hope Street with @mapcenter.com and was raving about one of my favorite websites, Art in Ruins.

A few minutes later, Art in Ruins' co-founder/operator, J. Hogue, walked by and I flagged him down to introduce him to Andrew. We all chatted for a bit.

Not sure if this is a bad sign, but an entry for the Dari Bee in Riverside has been added to ArtInRuins... artinruins.com/property/dar...

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Atlantic Mills is home to Big Top Flea Market, Atlantic Furniture, Iron Mountain Foundry, the Olneyville Neighborhood Association and many more small businesses and artists

History here: artinruins.com/property/atl...

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Here in Providence we had this crazy round Gulf gas station from the 1960s and we were trying to get it preserved so the developer tore it down over a long weekend, paid the minimal fine and went on his merry way. I mean it was no White House but

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It’s been taken. I got it for a costume party Hudson Furs (now Hudson Services), site of a famous heist in Providence, which used to sell off unclaimed furs in storage for super cheap. Not sure if they still do

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There can't have been, because the National Bank building only came down in 2005.

I assume youve seen this odd but of history of Providence’s chop suey houses: artinruins.com/property/chi...

But when the mall was announced, property developers started sniffing around cheap sites nearby, including the mill, which was sold out from under the artists.

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ooh I'm right near there. As you probably know, this development is made possible by moving 195 further south (I-Way bridge artinruins.com/property/iway/) to open more of that sweet downtown real estate.

The Warwick location always loomed larger in my imagination, mostly because I passed or visited it more frequently, but also because of the way that the top of the ziggurat and the red letters of the sign loomed over 95 north as you rode by