In the past fifty years, Wickenden Street has shifted from being crowded with street vendors and family homes, to being filled with college students and restaurants. For some, the street of their youth is almost unrecognizable.

On September 21, 1938 a now legendary hurricane battered Providence – Fox Point was no exception.

Today the site of a Shell gas station, this was once the location of Holy Rosary’s convent. On Saturday mornings in the summertime, Fox Point girls would attend embroidery and Portuguese lessons taught by the Catholic sisters.