

Amy Mendillo for Providence Monthly
- Nov 1, 2021
School Courtyard, Once Home to Old Oak, Receives Upgrades
Longtime Fox Point residents may know about the grand, glorious oak that stood on the south side of Wickenden Street in the late decades of the previous century, at the site of the current Vartan Gregorian Elementary School. Local legend says that the central courtyard of the school was designed in order to showcase—and save—that tree. The oak has since come down due to disease, according to school’s lead custodian, Freddy Bucci. But the courtyard, also beloved, is now being