Article by Marc Guberman


Restoration

Miss Margarethe Lyman Dwight, Sullivan Dorr’s great granddaughter, deeded the Dorr Mansion to the Providence Preservation Society in 1956. The house was the first property to be acquired by the society, which has as its aim the restoration and preservation of the city’s prominent historical sites and areas. A youthful Greek artisan named Constantine Cavousis was imported from Istanbul by the Preservation Society to restore the frescoes in the mansion 150 years after they were completed. John Hutchins Cady, a Providence architect who is an authority in the field described the Mansion as being of an architectural style "commonly known as Strawberry Hill Gothic." This term stems from a house built by Horace Walpole in England during the 18th century.
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