City Unconventional: Providence’s photo-archeologist continues his search for the soul of a building.
When I first arrived in “Downcity” Providence one Saturday in July, 2007, Paul Clancy was the first person that I encountered. I remember this clearly, because the sunlit movie set of this hauntingly beautiful, yet so
often underserved urban streetscape was utterly deserted.
With the art-deco “Superman Building” towering overhead, there was something disquietingly postapocalyptic about the summer scene. I ducked into the then brand new AS220 Project Space