The Providence Preservation Society is out with its annual list of the city’s most endangered properties, and no, the Old Canteen didn’t make the cut.

Each year, the organization picks specific properties to “bring attention to vulnerable places and pressure points across the city that are of architectural, historic, or cultural significance to their communities.”

In recent years, the preservation society has also sought to highlight broader challenges, such as citywide infrastructure, the public schools, and neighborhoods facing student housing gentrification.

This year’s list includes the 02908 ZIP code between Smith and Admiral Streets, which basically means the neighborhoods that surround Providence College. 

“In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Providence’s population was booming, these neighborhoods provided affordable housing options in two- and three-family homes, many of them triple-deckers,” Providence Preservation Society executive director Marisa Brown said in a press release. “While in most cases, the original structures remain, the generational communities that made lives here are being displaced rapidly.”

The preservation society found that nearly 260 parcels in that area are now owned by a handful of landlords and developers, and Brown said some states – like New York – have sought to limit investor ownership of housing in recent years.

The preservation society will formally unveil its 2025 list of most endangered properties at its annual meeting tonight, but here’s a sneak peek.

02908 between Smith and Admiral Streets
This includes properties in Elmhurst, Smith Hill, and parts of Wanskuck, which the preservation society describes as under threat of gentrification, displacement, and demolition.

Atlantic Mills in Olneyville
The building at 118 Manton Ave. has been on the preservation society’s radar since 2009, but the property now has a new landlord who wants to convert the property to apartment, and tenants are seeking to form a union.

Cranston Street Armory
It wasn’t that long ago that redeveloping the building at 340 Cranston St. was all the rage, but plans fell apart when government employees acted like buffoons during a trip to Philadelphia. The preservation society believes the vacant building, which has been on its most endangered list since 1996, continues to see very little maintenance.

Collier Point Park
Located on Henderson Street in Upper South Providence, this is a six-acre public park that is privately owned by Starwood Energy, a private equity investment firm based in Connecticut. The threat, according to the preservation society, is unilateral restrictions on use and access and inadequate maintenance or public interest planning.

11 Higgins Ave.
The John Hope Boy’s Group Home property located just behind Nathanael Greene Middle School has been vacant for about a decade, and there has been little progress on redevelopment. 

Superman Building
The skyscraper at 111 Westminster St. is supposed to be converted to apartments, but the developer still needs at least $10 million to close a financing gap, and is seeking more public subsidies to make it happen.