Dr. Patrick T. Conley: Biographical Résumé (4)
- PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES
- Significant donations in cash, artworks, books, or real estate to the following public, non-profit, or charitable agencies and institutions:
- Over $600,000.00: Providence Redevelopment Agency
- Over $100,000.00: St. Michael’s (Providence) Charitable Trust; Roger Williams University; City of Cranston; Heritage Harbor Museum; Seaconke Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation; University of Notre Dame Library; The Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, and the Heritage Harbor Foundation
- Over $20,000.00: Providence College; Johnson and Wales University Library; Rhode Island Historical Society Library; Rhode Island Publications Society; Conanicut
- Island Land Trust; Remnant Ministries, Inc.; Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial; New Life Community Church (Providence); Providence Maritime Heritage Foundation; Partnership for Creative Industrial Space (Providence); Town of Portsmouth, Pawtuxet River Authority; City of East Providence, City of Central Falls, Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, South Providence Branch of the Providence Public Library.
- Over $5,000.00: Southside Land Trust (Providence); The Nature Conservancy; Herreshoff Marine Museum; Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation; Immaculate Conception Church (Cranston); Bristol Historical and Preservation Society; Bristol Statehouse Foundation; Rhode Island Historical Society; Seekonk Land Trust, Bishop Russell J. McVinney, Regional School, Steamship Historical Society of America, The Pastime Theater (Bristol), Tri-City Elks Lodge, No. 14 (Warwick); Project Liberty Ship S.S. John W. Brown (Baltimore), Columban Fathers (Bristol), Providence City Archives.
- Over $1,000.00: Our Lady of Fatima Church (Cumberland); LaSalle Academy; Friends of Linden Place (Bristol); Salvation Army, Southside Gardens Land Trust; The Mount Hope Trust in Bristol, the Sisters of St. Dorothy (Bristol); the American Historical Association; the Bristol Train of Artillery, RIM; the Pawtuxet Rangers, RIM; Providence Public Library; the American Historical Association; the Rhode Island Senior Olympics, Providence Boys and Girls Club, Central Falls Public Library, Rogers Free Library, Bristol.
- Numerous and repeated small donations to an array of organizations serving veterans, sick children, Native Americans, wildlife, endangered animals, Catholic Church, civic organizations, and conservation efforts.
- HISTORIC PRESERVATION EFFORTS
- $6.8 million historic renovation of the 1899 Providence Gas Company Purifier House n/k/a the Conley’s Wharf Building at 200 Allens Avenue, Providence gaining for it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, plus the stabilization of several other rehabilitated historic buildings including the Monohasset Mill (Kinsley Avenue, Providence), the Providence Bleaching, Dyeing, and Calendaring Company Mill (Valley Street, Providence), the Rosedale Apartments (Narragansett Boulevard, Cranston), the King Philip House on Mount Hope (Bristol), and the Bristol County Statehouse and Courthouse (High Street Bristol).
- Served as a consultant/staff reviewer for the following architectural surveys published2 by the Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission between 1976 and 1986: Providence Citywide Survey (1986), Smith Hill (1980), South Providence (1978), West Side Providence (1976), Central Falls (1978), Cranston (1980), Southern Thames Street, Newport (1980).
- Co-Founder (with Rev. C.P. Forster) of the Providence College Archives (1968); the Archives of the Diocese of Providence (with Matthew J. Smith and Bishop Daniel Reilly) (1972); and the Providence City Archives (with Mayor Vincent Cianci and Albin Wagner) (1978).
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