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Wedding Cake house, including the Thomas Pierce House, also built 1867; the J. W. Windsor house at 106 Courtland (previously at 124 Broadway), built 1850; and the John W. Potter House at 446 Broadway, built 1882. However, 514 Broadway is the most
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Providence Redevelopment Agency. It had granted the money based on a use for affordable housing.
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Wedding Cake House was vacant from 1947 until 1982, and is not yet in livable condition. Several restoration efforts have taken place since 2011 due to the efforts of the
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about acquiring the contents of the house. The collection - a "time capsule" - forms the most complete record of a historical dressmaking business in existence.
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