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Restored hardwoods maintain the home’s history even with a new floor plan
Fresh Approach An East Side Colonial opens up to new possibilities The wonderful thing about a house with good bones is that it can be reinvented to suit the changing times and needs of its current owners. Take the single-family two-story Colonial in the Wayland Square neighborhood of Providence. Built around 1880, the expansive property with a private backyard – an East Side rarity – has morphed through the years, receiving cosmetic updates through the decades. In 1999 it caught the eye of Meg Curran, notably the first woman US attorney for the State of Rhode Island. “My mom fell in love with the house,” Curran’s grown daughter Margy Feldhuhn shares. “It was a fixer-upper but she saw the potential in the house that others probably wouldn’t have.” Photos by Aaron Usher III Photography, courtesy of Red House Design Build ProvidenceOnline.com • February 2022
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