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Providence Commemoration Lab

A collaboration of the Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism and the Rhode Island Historical Society. Funded in part by the Mellon Foundation and the American Rescue Plan.

An empty plinth in the center of a small park between two busy streets. There is snow in the grass and the trees are bare.
Columbus Square with no Columbus, Elmwood Avenue, Providence RI courtesy of Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0

Columbus Square

Columbus Square is a small park between two busy roads in the Elmwood section of the City. It was previously the home of a controversial Bartholdi Columbus statue, fabricated at the nearby Gorham Manufacturing Company and gifted to the City by local elites at the end of the 19th century.

Artists at this site:
+ Lu Heintz
+ Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos
+ Valerie Tutson

Writer at this site:
+Traci Picard

Learn More
+ PCL Blog
+ Google Maps
+ Wikipedia

An empty plinth in the center of a small park between two busy streets. There is snow in the grass and the trees are bare.
Columbus Square with no Columbus, Elmwood Avenue, Providence RI courtesy of Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0

Columbus Square

Columbus Square is a small park between two busy roads in the Elmwood section of the City. It was previously the home of a controversial Bartholdi Columbus statue, fabricated at the nearby Gorham Manufacturing Company and gifted to the City by local elites at the end of the 19th century.

Artists at this site:
+ Lu Heintz
+ Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos
+ Valerie Tutson

Writer at this site:
+Traci Picard

Learn More
+ PCL Blog
+ Google Maps
+ Wikipedia

An empty plinth in the center of a small park between two busy streets. There is snow in the grass and the trees are bare.
Columbus Square with no Columbus, Elmwood Avenue, Providence RI courtesy of Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0

Columbus Square

Columbus Square is a small park between two busy roads in the Elmwood section of the City. It was previously the home of a controversial Bartholdi Columbus statue, fabricated at the nearby Gorham Manufacturing Company and gifted to the City by local elites at the end of the 19th century.

Artists at this site:
+ Lu Heintz
+ Shey Rí Acu Rivera Ríos
+ Valerie Tutson

Writer at this site:
+Traci Picard

Learn More
+ PCL Blog
+ Google Maps
+ Wikipedia