VOL:85 ISSUE #14
Week of Nov. 27, 2012
Yellow Cottage rich with history BY JIM BRADY NEWS EDITOR After nearly a decade, and with the help of over $700,000 in grants, donations and school funds, Rhode Island College unveiled the newly renovated Yellow Cottage to the college community. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Nov. 19 to allow students, faculty, staff and administration an opportunity to peruse the new multifunctional, handicap accessible classroom building. The Yellow Cottage, located on East Campus, features classroom and office space, as well as a functioning part-time museum celebrating the building’s rich century-long history as a state home and orphanage. The building’s museum will display relics of years past, some of which were recovered from an archaeological dig on the building’s premises by the RIC Anthropology Department. Old cooking utensils and toys from the dig will be a part of the museum’s rotating features, as well photographs and artifacts donated from the descendants of the very people who once lived or worked at the state home and orphanage, respectively. While the building is not nearly as large as most buildings on campus, the road to its completion took almost three times longer than the three-year estimated completion time of the recently passed renovations for Craig Lee Hall, Gaige Hall and Fogarty Life Sciences buildings. The renovation project began in early 2004. The former state home was slated to become a visitation center to reunite families via the Rhode Island Department of Chil-
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Anchor photos by Jess Bourget The Yellow Cottage, located on East Campus.
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