Preserve Rhode Island

Stewardship: Preserve ri owns four properties, demonstrating the continuing contributions that historic buildings make today, placing them in active uses and undertaking maintenance and capital investments to keep them in good repair. Preserve ri now holds seven preservation easements on properties owned by others, and monitors building conditions to provide stewardship oversight. Preserve ri helps other nonprofit organizations take care of historic properties by offering stewardship services.

Engage: Preserve ri motivates people to connect with historic places and makes the case for safeguarding Rhode Island's historic places. Preserve ri is a leading voice for historic preservation, helping people Preserve the places that matter to them through our community preservation response program. Preserve ri celebrates people and projects that exemplify the best of historic preservation. Museum programming at lippitt house museum connects diverse communities and while facilitating other preservation programs in collaboration with other groups.

Direct preservation: Preserve ri takes direct action to protect and enhance historic places through its revolving fund program, by acquiring easements, and by collaborating on special projects such as the aquidneck stonewall initiative and the scenic third beach project. In 2021 Preserve ri took on its most ambitious revolving fund project to date at the c 1696 valentine whitman house in lincoln, ri.