NEW: Leak at Providence City Hall Damages Historical Documents in the Archives

NEW: Leak at Providence City Hall Damages Historical Documents in the Archives

Tuesday’s storm caused a major leak at Providence City Hall damaging key historical documents in the archives of the City Of Providence.

"This is one of the saddest days for the history of Providence right now. I am sick over it,” said City Archivist Caleb Horton.

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“Water is the worst thing that can happen to records,” he told GoLocal LIVE.

Horton said, “We move records [when] we have a leakage going through the wall."

“Unfortunately. we are closed currently right now -- we're trying to safeguard the records. So far we have everything out of the water zone where there is a small drip edge going down through the lights,” said Horton.

Horton says he has been trying to get city officials to fix critical issues.

“The facility is in dire need of repair. I've spent the last six years trying to lobby that [it be repaired]. Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with the outside walls -- and right now, the roof -- the fish scaling roof. As you know, it's a Gilded Age building so the materials are very elaborate and take a lot of repairs so apparently the fish-scale roofing must have went today.”

It is not yet known what historical items were damaged.

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