Serving West Warwick's mill-era village homes and postwar residential neighborhoods along the Pawtuxet River.
West Warwick sits along the Pawtuxet River west of Cranston, and its history is written in that river. The Pawtuxet powered a series of textile mills through the 19th and early 20th centuries — the Arctic Manufacturing Company, the Royal Mills, and others that defined the economic life of the community for generations. The villages of Arctic and Phenix grew up around those mills, and the worker housing that went up in that era is still very much present in West Warwick's older neighborhoods.
That mill-era housing — the two-families and small single-family homes built for French-Canadian and Irish mill workers between roughly 1870 and 1930 — presents specific renovation conditions. Plaster walls. Non-standard dimensions. Kitchens that were added to or modified over the course of a century without a coherent plan, layers of linoleum over layers of linoleum, plumbing that was extended rather than replaced when the house changed hands. Working in these homes requires reading what's there before committing to a plan.
The other significant portion of West Warwick's housing is postwar — built when the mills were closing or converting and the community was transitioning from an industrial economy to a residential suburb. These homes are the same practical ranches and Capes found throughout Rhode Island's postwar suburban expansion, and they are generally straightforward renovation projects.
We work in both types of West Warwick housing. The older mill-era homes in the village neighborhoods and the postwar residential stock that surrounds them.
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