Came here to say that I always associated it with Portuguese people.

I thought there was one less Mary in that area lol.

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That sounds amazing.

Not sure what the area is called, it's near Henderson bridge. But yeah spot on had a Mary in a half shell that they left. I had thier number so asked them to take it or it was going in the trash lol.

Kent Heights area I assume? That central EP area has a lot of that going. That and perfectly manicured small shrubs and trees.

Bonus points for a Mary in a half shell

Canning kitchen.

Italians and Portuguese

Keep the upstairs a museum

Source: my grandmother put plastic on the furniture and I wasn’t allowed in the parlor. And I put sheets on my furniture

It's called a summer kitchen, kept the upstairs cooler on the hot days.

I recently bought in EP and the upstairs kitchen had a high end rangetop that is about 20yeard old looking up the model number and everyone thinks it's new because the old owners never used it, was in excellent condition. they had a basic kitchen downstairs that was thier everyday kitchen.

Cool man, you stay home. I'm gonna go and enjoy it, and put some money into the economy. Why would you want the stadium to fail? There's nothing you can do about the taxes now, so just hope it's successful and helps Pawtucket/Rhode Island. What a self-loathing Rhode Islander thing to do...

Growing up, I've seen this everywhere I went. The basement was fixed up to be like another apartment, with kitchen and full bathroom.

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Italian’s are basically the same. Our house is in N Prov built in 1955 and has one too. We kept the sink and cabinets

Everyone’s like “oh it’s the Italians of oh it’s the Portuguese”. It’s the immigrants that were like “we have 14 wide going in here, but we need a place to accept people for reasons”.

‘‘Twas a weird time.

It’s a Portuguese/Cape Veridian thing. East Providence is full of them.

The upstairs kitchen is the “show” kitchen. My friends that had these had a full getup like burner covers so you wouldn’t even see them. They literally never used the upstairs kitchen. They tended to have a show living room as well that had furniture covered in plastic and too we’re not allowed in there.

They actually cooked in the downstairs kitchen.

Also: https://www.theday.com/columns/20210826/traipsing-through-the-rhode-island-desert/

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2016/03/11/big-river-ghost-50-years-ago-land-was-taken-from-351-people-for-reservoir-that-was-never-built-video/32390806007/

It is a Portuguese thing...my Grandmothers house also had a kitchen in the basement for entertainment when it wasn't being used as a living are for my Uncle when he came home from the Service.

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Italians cooked downstairs to keep the upstairs clean.

If you're in or around newport it's probably a servants kitchen. There's lots of those, they used them for parties and stuff so they could cook without being seen but it'd have to be an old fancy house for that

I don't like the fact that they put taxpayers on the hook for a stadium, but my taxes have certainly gone to worse things over the years.

i have an unfinished, walkout basement. i'm considering moving my kitchen there when we renovate because it opens out onto a part of my property with really nice views.

The kitchen in the basement is largely used in summer when it's too hot (pee-AC) to cook upstairs.

A lot of these are the first generation appliances of the house. So when they would redo the primary they would throw the old appliances in the basement.

This is the explanation I got from the old Portuguese man I bought my first house from.