Maker

WITHIN THESE WALLS: Providence Place (red brick building to the right) is a gigantic shopping, dining, and entertainment complex in Providence, R.I.

HW: How did you shower and use the toilet?

Photograph by Richard Benjamin; illustration based on Providence Journal map by George Silvia

through this, and were in the space, you were then connected to exit doors and the system of doors and stairways that provided exits for the mall.

there are precautions to take, but through our private entranceway it was a clean shot 24/7.

HW: Were there limited times that you could go in and out?

HW: How did you get the building materials and furniture in?

MT: If it was really thin, like lamps, doors, cinder blocks, rugs, clothes, artwork — those could go through the “squeeze hole,” as we called it.

If it was larger, we had to be very, very, very careful and just get the object through any door that led into a network of stairs and hallways that was ultimately attached to our nondescript door entrance (which we could open from the other

MT: There were entrances from the garage portion side or was left ajar most of the time.) Once you of the mall to our space. The garage is architecturally got through any door and were not visible, you a little over half of the mall. were pretty safe.

MT: No, we had 24-hour access through our private entranceway. And the garage is open 24 hours a day too.

HW: Did you have to walk through a parking garage or something like that?

HW: Were there security guards you had to go by? Security cameras?

MT: There is 24-hour security and a standard network of cameras. As it should be, it is not an overwhelming or oppressive amount, so movement is not restrictive. In the garage or through the mall,

MT: Bathrooms were in the mall. If we had been allowed to be there for the [full] year, we were going to get a membership at the Westin gym. The Westin is a luxury apartment/hotel attached to the mall, and we would have worked out there

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