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Architecture Bus Tour: Providence Arcade architect, Russell Warren’s, magnificent East Bay homes and beautiful houses of worship
Explore some of Bristol
and Warren’s
most beautiful 19th century houses and churches by architect Russell
Warren during Linden
Place Museum’s
June 9th bus tour. Tour highlights include commentary by noted
architect and historian, Lombard Pozzi, inside looks through several Warren
designed homes, as well as tours of two Warren designed houses of worship:
Warren Baptist Church and the wooden Greek Revival style St. Mark’s Church.
The bus tour will leave Linden Place Mansion at 9:30 a.m.
and will travel through Bristol
and Warren, Rhode Island. Reservations are required and the tour is limited to 30 guests. For more
information or to make reservations, please call Linden Place office at 253-0390.
** Russell Warren (1783-1860), born in Tiverton, Rhode
Island, designed many of Bristol’s earliest mansions for members of the slave
trading DeWolf family. He also built stately homes in New Bedford, Mass as well as the Carolinas but is best known for his Providence Arcade
building, today nicknamed “America’s
Oldest Indoor Shopping Mall.”
