Historic Warren Armory gets $500 grant
Residents working on the renovation of Warren’s Jefferson Street armory recently got a nice surprise — a $500 grant from the State of Rhode Island secured by Rep. Jan Malik and Sen. Walter Felag. The money will help Historic Warren Armory, Inc., install a fire suppression in the 1842 edifice. It’s located at 11 Jefferson [...]
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Two interesting pieces of Warren history have turned up recently and been handed over to the Historic Warren Armory, Inc., the group renovating the old armory on Jefferson Street. First is a medal made for the 17th annual convention of the American Legion held in Warren in August 1935. Made of what appears to be [...]
Read More →Warren’s old Armory re-born
Slowly but surely, the old Warren Armory on Jefferson Street is coming back to life. It’s been more than two years since a group of preservationists and veterans led a successful campaign to save the building, culminating in a town vote in May 2010 that made it a publicly owned structure. Since then, volunteers with [...]
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