1935 RI Census showed Oscar working as a grocer and living at 680 Hope St. Store was at 678 Hope St.

Article about Ida and Oscar’s home at 680 Hope St., Bristol, RI

Copyright Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin Dec 1, 1994
BRISTOL --- For Robert Rondeau, yesterday's open house of renovated apartments at 680 Hope St. brought back memories of World War II, when his aunt and uncle owned the Captain Johnson House and rented it to sailors from Newport.
"She used to make beds and clean rooms for them," Rondeau said yesterday of his late aunt, Ida Pivin. She and her husband, Oscar Pivin, owned the 1865 house and operated a hardware store at Franklin and Hope Streets.
Now, through a renovation project undertaken by the East Bay Mental Health Center, the eight apartments on two floors have been converted to six units for people with mental illness.
Carol W. Moser, administrator for community support services, said clients of the Barrington-based center used to live at the Hope Street tenement, and will return once the finishing touches are completed in two or three weeks. The house will be painted in the spring, she said.
Moser said that buying the property and renovating it cost nearly $500,000 and was paid for with grants and donations. It is the first independent living project undertaken by the center, she said.
The first floor contains two units and the second has four. Each unit consists of a new white kitchen, bath and a living room. Three fireplaces on the first floor and a stained glass window in a living room were restored.
Moser said the building was gutted after Rondeau sold it to the center about a year ago. Rondeau bought it from his aunt and uncle in 1969.
Moser said the mental health center plans to expand its independent living program. The not-for-profit center, which serves all of East Bay, has 475 clients, many of whom need help in obtaining living quarters that are up to safety standards and affordable, she said.
Clients at the Hope Street residence will pay 30 percent of their income for rent. Waiting lists for such units are long, Moser said, and it can take up to two years to get an apartment.
"We see ourselves doing more," Moser said.
People who were living at 680 Hope St. when the mental health center program bought the property had first priority as tenants, Moser said. Several other new tenants are mental health center clients who live in Bristol County, she said.
No supervisors will be on hand at the residence, but a maintenance person will live there, Moser said. Staff from the mental health center will visit clients.

Hardware store they owned net to the house was called Franklin Hardware. Previous to that it had been Pure Food Market.

1927 Bristol, RI City Directory:
Pivin Oscar clk 678 Hope b 725 do

1950 Directory Oscar (Ida) (Franklin Hardware Inc) 678 Hope Bristol, home 680 Hope