Friday, March 1, 2013
The former governor and his wife want to turn the Church Street building into a science center but after more than 10 years of relative inaction, the town is getting frustrated.
According to former Governor Donald Carcieri, there's been a misunderstanding with the town's tax assessor over a back tax bill on the Olney House, the building on Church Street the Carcieris bought from the town in 2002 for $1 with the idea of creating a children's science center. The Olney House is scheduled go up for tax sale this year because of an outstanding bill of $15,000 in back property taxes, according to EG Tax Assessor Janice Peixinho. "The town was going to demolish it," Carcieri said in a phone interview earlier this month to explain why he and his wife Sue bought the building. The Carcieris are in Florida until early April. Lifelong East Greenwich residents, they moved to North Kingstown three years ago. The Olney House …
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The building is owned by former Gov. Donald Carcieri and his wife Suzanne.
The Olney House – owned by former Gov. Donald Carcieri and his wife Suzanne – is scheduled go up for tax sale this year because they owe $15,000 in back property taxes, according to EG Tax Assessor Janice Peixinho. The Carcieris took over the house – which sits on the northeast corner of Academy Field on Church Street – from the town in 2001 to prevent it from being demolished with the idea of establishing a children's science center. But after Donald Carcieri became governor in 2002, the project was put on the back burner. Peixinho said she overlooked the tax bill during Carcieri's two terms as governor. "I let it go for the four years, eight years," she said. "I can’t look away the same as I couldn’t for the Odeum. People are calling …
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Don and Sue Carcieri had planned to open it - the building on Church Street between St. Luke's and Academy Field - years ago, but governing the state got in the way.
At the invitation of the Downtown Planning Initiative, former Governor Don Carcieri, his wife Sue and their daughter Alison told the group at their regular meeting Tuesday night they plan to have the main floor of a science center open by summer. The science center became a project of the Carcieris a decade ago when the town announced plans to tear down the building, which had been neglected and was deteriorating. The building sits on the northeast corner of Academy Field just behind St. Luke's Church. The structure was a boy’s dormitory when the Greenwich Academy served as the high school for the region and much of the state. The Academy, founded in 1802, closed in 1943. The Carcieris' parents went to school there. The Carcieris' plan …
Michelle
2:00 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
it's going to be fantastic when restored to it's original beauty..can't wait to bring the kids! more ›