First Person: Inside the Victorian on Grace Street - Rhode Island Monthly

First Person: Inside the Victorian on Grace Street - Rhode Island Monthly

Ellen with her brother Jon and father at the newly purchased Grace Street home. Photography courtesy of Ellen Schmedinghoff. My story of Grace Street started in the soupy summer stretch between kindergarten and first grade, saddled between two worlds — the only home I’d known in Providence, and a new house in Cranston.  My familiar world was a three-story tenement that rose high above the dead end of Hamlin Street. We made every inch of it ours,…