04/09/2023
Wedding Cake House (1867)
514 Broadway St, Providence, Rhode Island
Built by Broadway architect Perez Mason in 1867, it has been described by George P. Landow as a work of Carpenter Gothic, with “more carpenter than Gothic.” The Wedding Cake House (formally known as the Kendrick-Prentice-Tirocchi house), is a three-story historic house located at 514 Broadway Street in the Broadway-Armory Historic District of Providence, Rhode Island. Built in 1867 and occupied continuously until 1989, its contents were the subject of a 2001 exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. It has had a variety of restoration work conducted since 2011.
The house was built in 1867 for John Kendrick, a businessman with the American Supply Co., which made loom harnesses for the textile industry. Railway tycoon George W. Prentice bought it in 1881. He and his wife installed an elevator in the house sometime in the 1880s and thus were early adopters of this new technology. The elevator was decommissioned in 1924 after a line rotted. Broadway addresses were changed twice, in 1867 and in 1893. The Wedding Cake House was located at 248 Broadway until 1893, when it changed to 514.
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