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Library Building Consultants and Architects

NOTE: Address and telephone numbers listed are current to the best of our knowledge and are only listed once.  Please send corrections to the Webmaster.  Listings do not constitute a recommendation by the Office of Library and Information Services.

Current Rhode Island Public Library Projects
Project Consultant Architect
Barrington Public Library
Renovation (completed March 2006)
DD&A Library Consulting
Donna Dufault
(retired)
Tappe Associates
6 Edgerly Place
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: (617)451-0200
Website: www.tappe.com
Rogers Free Library (Bristol)
Major addition (completed Sept. 2008)
Douglas Pearce & Associates
(retired)
ai designs ltd.
50 Broad Street
Pawtucket, RI  02860
Phone: (401)728-2560
Fax: (401)726-5990
Email: brooknew@aol.com
Jesse M. Smith Library (Burrillville)
(New building, completed April 2008)
Marjorie L. Judd
124 North St.
Middleborough, MA 02346
Phone: (508)946-8470
Newport Collaborative Architects, Inc.
333 Westminster St., 4th fl.
Providence , RI 02903
Phone: (401)272-2144
Fax: (401)272-7622
Email: providence@ncarchitects.com
Website: http://www.ncarchitects.com
Cumberland Public Library
Major addition
(completed May 2000)
Aaron Cohen & Associates, Ltd.
159 Teatown Road
Croton-on-the-Hudson, NY 10520
E-mail: aca@acohen.com
Web site: 
www.acohen.com

Phone: (914)271-8170
Fax: (914)271-2434
Keyes Associates (no longer in business). See:

Jay Litman
Newport Collaborative

Rob Gray
Munroe & Associates
65 Columbia St.
Wakefield, RI  02849
Phone: (401)783-9650
Email: munroearch@aol.com
Cumberland Public Library
Renoovation of old entry area
(completed October 2006)
Aaron Cohen & Associates, Ltd. Saccoccio & Associates
1085 Park Avenue
Cranston, RI 02910
Phone: (401)942-7975
Website: http://www.sa-architects.com/
East Greenwich Free Library
Addition & renovation
(completed June 2004)
DD&A Library Consulting
Donna Dufault
Prout Robert & Elias Architects
39 Glen Road
Cranston, RI 02920
Phone: (401) 941-4200
Email:  prearch@aol.com
East Providence Public Library: Riverside Branch
New building
(completed Sept. 2005)
Sunny Vandermark
Vandermark Consulting
10 Ruthellen Rd.
Framingham, MA 01701
(781)398-1819
svanderm@mmrls.org
Prout Robert & Elias Architects
39 Glen Road
Cranston, RI 02920
Phone: (401) 941-4200
Email:  prearch@aol.com
Exeter Public Library
New building
(completed Sept. 2004)
Douglas A. Pearce & Associates Prout Robert & Elias Architects
Greenville Public Library
Addition
(postponed)
Patience K. Jackson
64 Harris Avenue
Needham, MA 02492
Email: Patience.Jackson
@state.ma.us

(781)455-6268
Newport Collaborative Architects, Inc.
Island Free Library
Addition (completed Oct. 2001)
Douglas A. Pearce & Associates
Prout Robert & Elias Architects
Marian J. Mohr Library (Johnston)
Planned new building
Sunny Vandermark
Thomas Lonardo & Associates
80 Atwood Ave.
Cranston, RI 02920
Phone: (401)944-2600
Fax: (401)944-2601
Email: lonardot@att.net
Website: http://www.tlaarchitects.com/
Middletown Public Library
Addition & renovation
(completed Jan. 2004)
Douglas A. Pearce & Associates
Robinson Green Beretta
50 Holden Street
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: (401)272-1730
Fax: (401)(401) 273-7156 Email: rgb@rgb.net
Website: http://www.rgb.net
Newport Public Library
Major addition
(completed May 2001)
Douglas A. Pearce & Associates
Hammond, Beeby, Rupert, Ainge
440 North Wells Suite 630
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 527-3200
email: Admin@hbra-arch.com

Long & Kentish Architects
26 Edgewood Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 776-7957

North Kingstown Free Library
Major addition
(completed April 1999)
DD&A Library Consulting
Donna Dufault
Robinson Green Beretta
Portsmouth Free Public Library
Renovation of basement space
(completed May 2002)
Douglas A. Pearce Associates Prout Robert & Elias Architects
Providence Public Library, Branches & Central Library:
So. Providence, completed Sept. 2003;
Rochambeau, completed Nov. 2003
Knight Memorial, starts Fall 2004
Patience Jackson (branches);
Jay Lucker (Central)
Email:  jklucker@mit.edu
Phone:  (347)763-1980
Ann Beha Architects
33 Kingston Street
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617)338-3000
Fax: (617)482-9097
Email: mail@annbeha.com
Website: www.annbeha.com
Hope Library Association (Scituate)
Renovation of basement space
(completed Sept. 2003)
Douglas A. Pearce Associates Prout Robert & Elias Architects
No. Scituate Public Library (Scituate)
(Completed Fall 2011, no state funding)
DD&A Library Consulting
Donna Dufault

Lerner | Ladds + Bartels
236 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Phone: (401)421-7715
Web: www.LLBarchitects.com

South Kingstown Public Library
Major addition
(completed in 1995)
Nolan Lushington
11 Asylum St
Hartford, CT 06103-2209
(860)293-1450
Jay Litman
see Newport Collaborative
Warwick Public Library
Major addition
(completed Oct. 1998)
Douglas Pearce & Associates
Jay Litman
Keyes Associates
see Newport Collaborative

Rob Gray
Keyes Associates
see Munroe & Associates

Westerly Public Library (substantial renovation, completed Spring 2011) Patience K. Jackson
Tappe Associates
Woonsocket Harris Public Library
Major Addition (completed 2001)
Douglas Pearce Christopher Placco
Robinson Green Beretta

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