<p>The Tower-Flagg Barn Complex is  a historic site in Cumberland, Rhode Island at 100 Abbott Run Valley Road. Its most significant feature was a barn complex whose oldest section was an English barn that was probably constructed in the second half of the 18th century. If so, it would have been built by Benjamin Tower, whose family owned the land from the late 17th century into the early 19th century. In 1895 the property was acquired by Charles Flagg, notable in Rhode Island as influential in the founding of what is now the University of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. C. 2013, the property had been cleared of old buildings and a new residential subdivision was built on the land.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Church is parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Cumberland, Rhode Island within the Diocese of Providence. It is known for its historic campus at 1303 Mendon Road, which includes a Gothic Revival style church, designed by James Murphy, along with two late 19th-century, clapboard-sheathed, wood-frame structures on the east side of Mendon Road. The church and its accompanying buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as St. Joseph&#39;s Church Complex.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Josephs Parish, established in 1872 in an earlier church constructed on the present site, was, at that time, the only Roman Catholic church between Valley Falls and Woonsocket. It served an extensive parish centered on the Irish, and later French Canadian and Italian, mill laborers of nearby Ashton and Berkeley, as an important religious and social center. By 1888, the parishs growth necessitated construction of a new church, completed in 1890, which replaced the original. The original rectory and parish hall were retained. According to the State Survey put out by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission in 1998, the present church is one of the finest wooden Late Victorian religious edifices in Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and underwent an extensive and sensitive restoration in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The handsome, asymmetrical, twin-spired Gothic Revival St. Joseph&#39;s Church was designed in 1888 by James Murphy of Providence, a prolific architect of Catholic churches. The building has a tall, end-gable-roof, rectangular mass with a polygonal, hip-roof apse at the northeast end. One-story, shed-roof side aisles continue around the apse as an ambulatory to connect to a projecting, rectangular chapel. The three-story, shorter corner tower has paired lancet windows, battlemented string courses, louver-filled Gothic arches, and is topped by a broach spire. The four-story tower has large, traceried Gothic windows, drip molds, and is surmounted by an octagonal belfry and spire.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Rectory (c. 1872) is two to three stories in height with a modified cruciform plan. It is a well-preserved example of bracketed style domestic architecture, with a wrap-around veranda and applied ornament of carved brackets and jigsaw work. The interior has been modified.</p><br>
<p>The relatively plain parish hall (c. 1872) has been removed and a modern structure has been built at the rear of the property.</p><br>
<p>The St. Charles Borromeo Church is a former Roman Catholic parish church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, located on North Main Street. The parish of St. Charles was canonically suppressed January 12, 2020 and the congregation merged with that of the Church of All Saints, another parish of the Diocese of Providence, although the church remains open as an alternative worship space.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival-style church was designed by Patrick Keely and built 1867–71 to serve the area&#39;s Irish Catholic population. The complex also includes a clergy house (1881), school (1897), and convent (1868). All were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Charles Borromeo Church Complex in 1983.</p><br>
<p>St. Ann&#39;s Church Complex is now a historic cultural center in Woonsocket, Rhode Island on Cumberland Street. It was formerly a Roman Catholic church within the Diocese of Providence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Renaissance style church was built in 1913 by Walter F. Fontaine to serve Woonsocket&#39;s French-Canadian community. The complex originally encompassed a church, school, convent, parish house and a gymnasium that doubled as a theater.</p><br>
<p>The church closed in October 2000 and later reopened as the St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center. The St. Ann&#39;s complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Chapel is an historic Episcopal church located at 576 Fairmont Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The late-Victorian style church was designed by George W. Spaulding in 1894 as "a mission chapel by St. James Episcopal Parish of Woonsocket in 1894 to serve the new and growing working-class Fairmount neighborhood. Many of the building components were donated by area residents and corporations. The lot was a gift of the Fairmount Land Company; architect and St. James parishioner George Spaulding donated the plans and building specifications; the Granite Pressed Brick Company, also of Woonsocket, donated the distinctive pressed concrete brick; Edgar H. Slocum provided painting services free of charge; Hark Hough provided the bell and in 1897, the Gilbert & Butler Company of Boston gave the pipe organ." The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of the South Main Street Historic District of Woonsocket.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal congregation sold the structure prior to 1981 and it has since passed to a number of other congregations. As of 2008 was used as a holistic counseling center.</p><br>
<p>As of 2013 it has become a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Squantum Association is a private club in East Providence, Rhode Island on 947 Veterans Memorial Parkway. Its main Club House overlooks the Providence River on a rocky promontory. This Colonial Revival building was constructed in 1900 by Martin & Hall and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The brick bakehouse was built in 1899 and has weathered numerous hurricanes from its lofty perch right on the rocky coast. The "Cottage" is the oldest building on the property and was originally built as a billiard hall. Also surviving from the 19th century is the club office, formerly the manager&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As with Squantum Point in Quincy, Massachusetts, Squantum Point in Riverside was named in honor of the influential and welcoming Native American, Squanto, who was a guide and translator for the Mayflower settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Squantum Point in Quincy was so-named for him in the 18th century. Additional indigenous names were given to prominent points in Rhode Island such as Nayatt Point in Barrington, Conimicut Point in Warwick and Watchemoket Cove in East Providence.</p><br>
<p>In 1870, two groups of local men purchased Squantum Point to serve as a gathering spot to perfect their clambake. In the two decades prior to this purchase, Providence merchants and sea captains would row and sail from Providence to a small island just south of Squantum Point for their clambakes. When, in time, the islands owner objected, Shubael Cady, the clubs first president, purchased Squantum Point. The island has had various names (Huckleberry Island, Whortleberry Island, but early maps have it named Scopulous Island, which is Greek in origin and means "place of rocks". The Squantum Association purchased the island in 1912, and built the causeway to the island in 1914 and constructed the pagoda on the island in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The first clubhouse, built in June 1871, was a simple open-framed pavilion. In 1872 the Squantum Association was incorporated and permanent clubhouses were erected with the richness of detail that characterized fine period architecture. The large current club house is the third.</p><br>
<p>The Main Club House, built in 1900 overlooking the entrance to the Providence River, features ornate woodwork, polished brass, luxuriant drapery, an artisan stone foundation and a sunroom with southerly views of the bay. The Bakehouse was built out over the rocky coastline in 1889, and provides views of the Providence River and Narragansett Bay.</p><br>
<p>The membership of the Squantum Association is diverse and has been traditionally drawn from leaders in business, law, medicine, and education from Rhode Island and Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Of note, the small cove to the south and east of the Squantum property and Huckleberry Island is called Windsor Cove. Prior to the train trestle being built by the Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad, in 1855, this cove had open access to the Providence River. It was from a small shipyard on the north shore of the cove that the first steamship built in America was launched. It was built by Elijah Ormsbee from a whale boat and a large whiskey still he borrowed from friends. Ormsbee sailed it up and down the Providence River into the Seekonk River to Pawtucket for one summer. But as it was very slow (2-3 mph) it was not commercially viable and was dismantled after one summer. The "way", or rail that was used to launch the boat out into the cove is still visible at the neap low tides a couple of times a year. Paul R. Williams, the Squantum Association Club Historian is conducting additional research into this event. Ormsbee&#39;s son and grandson later were among the first members of the Squantum Association.</p><br>
<p>The Governor William Sprague Mansion is an historic mansion and museum at 1351 Cranston Street in Cranston, Rhode Island. The house was the birthplace of Governor William Sprague III and his nephew, Governor William Sprague IV.</p><br>
<h2>The Sprague family</h2><br>
<p>Three generations of the Sprague family lived in the house. The Spragues were founders of the Sprague Print Works in 1808, which later became the Cranston Print Works, which is the only continuously operating textile printing company in America. At the time of the Civil War, the A. & W. Sprague Company was the richest textile company in the United States, and William Sprague IV was the Governor of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>The house</h2><br>
<p>The house was built around 1790. It was expanded significantly in 1864 by Col. Amasa Sprague. He added a wide hall and wide, winding staircase, for the purpose of entertaining his social contacts from financial, political, and social circles.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Currently the house is owned and operated by The Cranston Historical Society, a private, non-profit educational and historic preservation organization.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War cannons</h2><br>
<p>The Cranston Historical Society and Rhode Island National Guard underwent a years-long dispute about ownership of two cannons used by Governor William Sprague IV&#39;s regiment during the Civil War. The national guard claimed that ownership of artillery pieces returned to the federal government after the war; the historical society maintained that Sprague had purchased them outright, and were his personal property.</p><br>
<p>The cannons, manufactured in the 1840s, were used by Spragues regiment during the Civil War. They were displayed at Cranstons Rolfe Square from 1924 to 1991, and removed because the wooden carriages were beginning to rot from exposure to the weather. The cannons were placed in the Sprague Mansion carriage house from 2005 to April 2017 when they were removed for restoration. In 2017, the sides agreed to return the cannons to the Sprague Mansion carriage house, while still leaving the question of ownership unsettled. Cranston mayor Allan Fung attended the ceremony to unveil the restored cannons on October 31, 2017.</p><br>
<p>The South Main Street Historic District is a residential historic district in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It extends along South Main Street between Mason Street on one end and Andrews and Bradford Streets on the other, and includes properties on adjacent streets, principally Ballou and North Ballou Streets. The district includes 65 main properties, most of which were built between 1880 and 1930, although there is a cluster of older properties  in the northern half of the district. The district typifies the American main road leading into a town, lined by landscaped lots with high-quality houses.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Memorial Church is a historic Episcopal church at 674 Westminster Street in Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. The current church building, a large brownstone structure with a flat-topped tower, was designed by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter in a Gothic, Tudor Revival style, and built from 1869 to 1872. It is the largest Episcopal church building in the state, and its only known Potter-designed church. The accompanying  parish house is a Tudor Revival structure designed by Gorham Henshaw and built in 1909.</p><br>
<p>The church building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Candace Allen House is a historic house located at 12 Benevolent Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. Named after Candace Allen  an dauther of Zachariah Allen, a prominent Providence mill-owner.</p><br>
<p>The Federal style house was built in 1818–1820 by local architect John Holden Greene and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is a brick two-story building with a hip roof topped by a small monitor section. It is five bays wide, with a center entry sheltered by a portico supported by Corinthian columns, and an elliptical window above. The interior follows a typical central-hall plan, and has elaborate interior detail including marble mantels, a U-shape stairway, ceiling cornices, undercut moldings, and walnut doors with silver hardware.</p><br>
<p>Candace Allen (1785-1872) was the older sister of Zachariah Allen, a prominent Providence mill-owner and inventor. Her fiancé was killed in the War of 1812, and she did not ever marry. The house was, as of its 1973 National Register listing, still in the hands of the Allen family.</p><br>
<p>The America Street School was an historic school at 22 America Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was a two-story brick structure, built in 1905 to a design by Frederick E. Field. It housed ten classrooms , and was one of four similarly sized schools built by the city between 1887 and 1916. The building served the city as a school until 1955, and was used for a time thereafter as a meeting place for a local branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Zachariah Allen House is a historic house at 1093 Smith Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Built in 1789 by Amos Allen for his brother Zachariah Allen, it is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central entry and large central chimney. It is a well-preserved example of a transitional Georgian-Federal style house, having retained original siding materials on the outside, and finish woodwork on the interior. Its major modifications include the 20th-century installation of new hardwood floors, as well as modern plumbing and kitchen. Zachariah Allen was at the time a successful merchant, and the house was built as a summer retreat in what was at the time a rural area.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Dickhaut Cottages Historic District encompasses a collection of historic worker cottages in the Smith Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, along with the home of their builder, Andrew Dickhaut. The cottages are located at 114—141 Bath Street , 6-18 Duke Street , and the Dickhaut house is located at 377 Orms Street. The cottages are virtually identical -story wood-frame structures, set on small lots close to the sidewalk. Those on Bath Street were built in 1882, while those on Duke Street were built in 1892. This collection represents a remarkably well-preserved collection of worker housing, a building form which is often poorly documented.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Arnold–Palmer House is an historic house at 33 Chestnut Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The Federal style house was built in 1826 for wealthy Providence merchant Daniel Arnold at a location on upper Westminster Street, where it was one of four nearly identical houses whose design was attributed to prominent local architect John Holden Greene by preservationist Norman Isham. This house is the only one of the four still standing, having been moved to its present location in 1967 as part of the Weybosset Hill urban redevelopment project.</p><br>
<p>The house is a brick structure, two stories high and five bays wide, with a hip roof topped by a small monitor. It has four chimneys rising from its exterior side walls. Its center entry is flanked by sidelight windows, topped by a fanlight window, and sheltered by a portico supported by paired Ionic columns. The window above the entry is a 1968 alteration salvaged from a house of similar vintage in Pawtucket. The interior has retained much of its original woodwork, despite the numerous uses the house has seen.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Aylesworth Apartments is a 19th century apartment building in the Upper South Providence neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. Since 1982, the building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a 2-1/2 story structure, built in brick on the first floor, and with its upper floors finished in slate. It has a busy roofline, typical of the Queen Anne style popular when it was built in 1888–89. Its main entry is recessed under a large round archway which also has a small second-story porch under it. The building originally housed four apartments, but was altered in 1978 to house professional offices. It is the oldest known building built as an apartment house in the city.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Original owner</h2><br>
<p>Eli Aylesworth (1802–1894) built the apartments as an investment. Aylesworth, since 1858, had been president of the Westminster Bank and lived a block east on Broad Street, in a single-family dwelling long since demolished. His firsts tenants here were his peers, at least economically.</p><br>
<p>The Woods–Gerry House  is an historic house on 62 Prospect Street in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is a large, three story brick structure, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1860 for Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Wood. It is the largest surviving 19th-century house in Providence, measuring 55 ft in width and 75 ft in depth. It features restrained Italianate styling, most evident in its porch and porte-cochere, and in its roofline. The building currently houses the Admissions office for the Rhode Island School of Design.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Allen House is an historic house on Sharp Street, on the northeast corner of its junction with Rhode Island Route 102, in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The main block of this -story Cape style wood-frame house was built c. 1787 by Stephen Allen, a farmer. The house is five bays wide, with a central chimney and a center entry which is framed by a later Greek Revival surround. There is a -story ell extending to the east  of the main block. To the east of the main house stands what originally appeared to be a shed that has since been converted for use as a small horse stable. Evidence suggests this structure was built sometime before 1862 as a store.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Allen–Madison House  by the United States Navy) is a historic house on Marine Road in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It is located on the grounds of the former Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center, set on an isolated plot apart from the main portion of the base.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house is a -story, wood-framed structure, built in about 1801 by John Allen. The house Allen built is a replacement for an older house which was burned by British forces during the American Revolutionary War. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney, and a centered entrance with modest Federal trim. A four-bay ell, also a 19th-century construction, extends to the rear (north), and there is also a screened sitting porch. The farm was owned by members of the Madison family from about 1825 to 1909, and was acquired by the Navy in 1941. The Battalion Center was closed in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>John Allen</h2><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War, when Newport was occupied by British forces and the shores of the Bay were held by American forces, John Allen carried supplies to the Colonial Army on the Tiverton shore and served for a time as an enlisting officer in East Greenwich. Coastal settlements were vulnerable to attack, and in early June 1779, a British landing force captured Allen and held him captive in Newport for 18 weeks, burning his house and another nearby residence. Allen moved to East Greenwich, while still running his Quidnessett farm, built this current house in 1801, and returned with his family. Allen served on the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and died in 1813.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Allen-Madison House Winter 16 finished.jpg</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church in East Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The congregation traces its history to a Bible school formed in 1867. It was admitted into union with the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island in 1871, and became an independent parish in 1894. In 1878, St. Marys Orphanage, now known as St. Marys Home was opened; it remains in operation in North Providence.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter Gothic church, by George E. Harney, was constructed from 1870 to 1872. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The church is one of the few buildings remaining of Watchemoket Square, a neighborhood which was once the thriving heart of downtown East Providence.</p><br>
<p>The Ransom Water Tower is a former water tower in the LaSalle County, Illinois, village of Ransom. It was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After a fire in the early 1890s the village of Ransom decided to construct a public waterworks with a central water tower. The first meetings were held in 1893 and 1894. After some controversy over the size of the tank and tower a 45,000&ndash;50,000 gallon tank was constructed atop a brick water tower in 1896. The tower served the village from its construction until July 19, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Ransom Water Tower is located atop a hill, what was the highest point in the then-center of town. Upon its construction, a 40 foot brick tower was topped with a 28 ft wooden water tank. The brick tower is a round, "barrel", tower. At its base it has a diameter of 29 feet 4 inches which tapers as the tower rises to a diameter of about 24 feet.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The tower is locally significant to the settlement of Ransom. It helped the village flourish after a devastating fire and attracted settlers and business growth to Ransom. The Ransom Water Tower was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1990.</p><br>
<p>McCormick Apartments, also known as Andrew Mellon Building, Mellon Apartment, or 1785 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, is a landmark apartment building on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., whose inhabitants once included Andrew W. Mellon. It is the home of the American Enterprise Institute.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Andrew Mellon Building was built by Stanley McCormick, heir to the International Harvester fortune, in 1915 and completed in 1917. Washington-based Jules Henri de Sibour was architect of the building. This was one of the first Washington apartment buildings for luxury living. The structure was meant to fit in with other Beaux-Arts buildings in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The buildings composition is three principal elevations, to serve as a pivot point for a residential boulevard and two street intersections. The six units it originally contained had quarters for more than forty servants. Some of the Capitals most distinguished personalities once lived here. A partial listing of these residents, from the Historic American Buildings Survey, includes:</p><br>
<p>Thomas F. Ryan, 1920–1922</p><br>
<p>Robert Woods Bliss, 1920–1923</p><br>
<p>Edwin T. Meredith, 1921</p><br>
<p>Andrew W. Mellon, 1922–1937</p><br>
<p>Sumner Welles, 1921–1927</p><br>
<p>Alanson B. Houghton, 1930–1934</p><br>
<p>The millionaire industrialist Andrew Mellon is perhaps most significant of these past occupants. He was Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932. This was the longest tenure since Albert Gallatin. Mellon made this his residence shortly after taking on that role, occupying the top floor from 1922 until his death in 1937. Among his accomplishments include authoring the "Mellon Plan" which stimulated the economic boom of the 1920s and founding the National Gallery of Art. In 1936 Mellon paid $21 million for paintings and sculptures owned by Sir Joseph Duveen, an art dealer leasing the apartment below. At the time this was the largest art transaction on record.</p><br>
<p>After 1941, the building was used for offices and eventually partitioned. The property was conveyed by deed from Katherine Dexter McCormick to the American Council on Education on March 31, 1950. Later the property was conveyed to The Brookings Institution on January 2, 1970. Finally, the building was sold to the National Trust for Historic Preservation on October 28, 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Mellon Building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<h3>2013 sale</h3><br>
<p>The National Trust put the building up for sale in mid-2009. The organization said it had outgrown the 60,000 ft&sup2; building and needed about 80,000 ft&sup2; of space. Real estate experts believed the structure would sell for $1,000 a square foot, or $60 million. Potential buyers considered turning it into a museum or luxury apartments again, but there were no offers at any price. After Trust president Richard Moe stepped down in early 2010 and was replaced by Stephanie Meeks, the organizations board of directors decided to pull the building off the market so that Meeks would not have to devote all her time to finding the National Trust a new home. Instead, National Trust officials said they would rehabilitate some of the structures windows, HVAC, and mechanical systems and possibly add a green roof.</p><br>
<p>In late June 2013, the National Trust sold the Mellon Building to the American Enterprise Institute for $36.5 million. The Trust said it will lease space on the top two floors of the Watergate Office Building. The National Trust holds a permanent historic preservation easement that protects both the interior and exterior of the Mellon Building.</p><br>
<p>The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., is a National Historic Landmark building which is the headquarters of the United States Department of the Treasury. An image of the Treasury Building is featured on the back of the United States ten-dollar bill.</p><br>
<h2>Early buildings</h2><br>
<p>In the spring of the year 1800, the capital of the United States was preparing to move from the well-established city of Philadelphia to a parcel of tidewater land along the Potomac River. President John Adams issued an Executive Order on May 15 instructing the federal government to move to Washington and to be open for business by June 15, 1800. Arriving in Washington, relocated government employees found only one building completed and ready to be occupied: the Treasury Department building. Of the 131 federal workers who moved to Washington, over half of them (69) were housed in the new Treasury Building, a two-story Federal/Georgian styled red brick building with a basement and attic that had 16 rooms on the first floor and 15 rooms on the second floor. The building was 147 ft long and 57 ft wide, flanking the south-east end of the President&#39;s House (later renamed the White House), one of four similar structures for the then four executive departments flanking the east (State and Treasury) and west sides (War and Navy) of the executive mansion facing Pennsylvania Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Within six months of occupying the building, a fire broke out on January 20, 1801, nearly destroying the entire structure. The fire started in one of the first floor rooms and burned through to the floor above but was extinguished before any serious structural damage occurred. The building was repaired, yet by 1805 the records of the department were beginning to overwhelm the original building and a new "fireproof" brick and masonry vault extension was planned for the west side of the Treasury building facing the next-door Presidential residence. The extension of the Treasury building was designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe and completed in 1806. The first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, never got to see it finished.</p><br>
<p>The fire-proof vault addition designed by Latrobe turned out to be a hearty structure – it was the only part of the building that survived the 1814 burning of Washington by British forces during the War of 1812. Treasury offices were temporarily relocated to seven buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue between 19th and 20th streets while the Treasury building, other executive departments and President&#39;s House (White House) were reconstructed. The reconstruction took until 1817 under President James Monroe to complete.</p><br>
<p>On March 30, 1833, the Treasury Building was once again engulfed in flames. Late in the evening, Richard H. White had set fire to the building hoping to destroy incriminating pension records inside the Treasury Building. Volunteers saved records that could be retrieved (mostly from the Latrobe vault extension which once again largely survived the fire) and the Treasury offices were relocated to a row of buildings on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the nearby Willard Hotel. After the fire, architect Robert Mills was asked to prepare a set of drawings of the former brick Federal style Treasury Building recording the design of the building before the fire.</p><br>
<h2>Current building</h2><br>
<h3>East Wing</h3><br>
<p>When Mills submitted drawings of the destroyed Treasury building along with a report on the need for a more fire-proof building in the future, he also included drawings of what he proposed as a potential new Treasury building. Mills eventually won a design competition and was appointed Architect of Public Buildings by President Andrew Jackson to oversee the design and construction of the Treasury and Patent Office buildings. Construction on the new Treasury building began on September 7, 1836.</p><br>
<p>Disagreements over the Treasury building came to a head less than two years into the construction of the east wing. In January 1838 a proposal was introduced in Congress to demolish the partially constructed building. The Committee on Public Buildings directed Capitol building architect Thomas U. Walter to inspect and report on the Treasury building. A report on January 29, 1838, by Walter critical of the building design was rebutted by Mills a few weeks later in February. Despite Mills&#39;s arguments, a congressional bill was brought to the floor and voted on with the recommendation to demolish the Treasury building and use the stone for a replacement Post Office building. The bill was narrowly defeated 94-91 and work on the Treasury building was allowed to continue.</p><br>
<p>The Mills wings of the current Treasury building (east and center sections) were finally completed in 1842. The massive, 350&#39; long Greek inspired Ionic colonnade facing 15th street is the most striking feature of Mills design. By 1844, the tan sandstone exterior, including the colonnade, was painted white to protect the integrity of the stone (the same stone and painting thereof was used at the "White" House as well). While Mills had always envisioned additional wings added to the Treasury building beginning with a south wing extension, in 1851, he was removed from his Treasury position before any design or construction of the south wing had begun.</p><br>
<h3>South Wing Extension</h3><br>
<p>By the early 1850s, there was a growing need to increase the size of the Treasury building. Mills revised his earlier design and submitted a plan to Treasury Secretary Thomas Corwin. Controversy followed Mills yet again and Thomas U. Walter was brought in to critique the Mills plan, eventually providing two design drawings of his own. Walters drawings for the first time showed a west wing of the Treasury building on the site of former greenhouses for the White House that would eventually create a closed rectangular shaped Classical Revival styled stone building with Millss center wing bisecting the rectangle and creating two enclosed courtyards. Ultimately Walter&#39;s design was chosen and in 1851, Robert</p><br>
<p>Mills was released from his architectural position at the Treasury Department.</p><br>
<p>In 1853 Ammi B. Young was named the Supervising Architect in the Office of Construction at the Treasury Department. Key among his responsibilities was to merge the design approaches previously prepared for the addition of a south wing to the Treasury building extending over the site of the old State Department offices. One of the most important revisions was the acceptance of the need to expand the Treasury building with both simultaneously a south and west wings. The inclusion of the later west wing in the design and planning created an opportunity for economies of scale by reducing costs for manpower and building materials. In 1855 ground was broken to start excavating for the South Wing foundation after the razing of the old State Department.</p><br>
<p>By 1857 construction of the south wing had progressed up to the second-floor level and excavations for the west wing foundations had begun. Progress on the Treasury building came to a halt in 1858 with the country falling into a recession after the financial Panic of 1857. Construction on all federal buildings was stopped due to a lack of funding appropriations from Congress. Before the stoppage, the construction of the south wing had completed setting in place over 45 monolithic stone columns and pilasters, some weighing as much as 33 tons each. But economic challenges were not the only events that disrupted the construction of the south and west wings of the Treasury building. By 1860 it appeared almost certain that the country was headed towards a military conflict between the states.</p><br>
<p>Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, new President Andrew Johnson relocated the presidential offices temporarily to the Treasury building, while the Lincoln family was vacating the White House.</p><br>
<h2>Artistic elements</h2><br>
<h3>Sculpture</h3><br>
<p>Sculptor James Earle Fraser created the statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, which stands in front of the southern facade facing Alexander Hamilton Place and The Ellipse beyond, and the statue of Albert Gallatin, the fourth and longest serving Secretary, which stands before the northern entrance facing Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.</p><br>
<p>Dominic Hall, also known as St. Dominic House and the William L. Bailey House, is a historic house on the Providence College campus in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story stone-faced structure with timber framing, and a prominent octagonal four-story tower at its southeastern corner. The house was built in the 1850s by William Bailey, who had a 23 acre estate. In the early 20th century the estate was acquired by the local Dominican Order, which used it as a convent and girls&#39; school. The property was then absorbed by Providence College .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It presently serves as the official residence of the college president.</p><br>
<p>The Beaman and Smith Company Mill is an historic factory complex at 20 Gordon Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of two masonry buildings at the junction of Gordon and Saratoga Streets in south Providence. The older of the two buildings is a one-to-two story brick structure, built in 1898 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company. It has a steel frame, and is about 250 ft long. The second building is an early example of concrete slab construction, built in 1917. It was designed by local industrial architecture firm, Jenks & Ballou. It is four stories in height, and is attached to the older building&#39;s south face. It originally had a brick surface, but much of this was stuccoed. The brick building presents four bays to Gordon Street, while the concrete one has two. The complex exemplifies two notable early modern construction methods, and is a symbol of the industrial development of south Providence in the late 19th century. Beaman and Smith was a manufacturer of precision machine tools; they went out of business in 1926. The complex was occupied for many years by the James Hill Manufacturing Company, who produced metal containers.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Bell Street Chapel is an historic Unitarian Universalist chapel church located at 5 Bell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. This is just off Broadway in the part of the city referred to as "Federal Hill." The church is a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1875 by architect William Russell Walker at the behest of James Eddy. Eddy was a wealthy engraver and art dealer who advocated a theology that was unusual for its time. He had a private chapel built on the land adjacent to his property, hoping that he might be able to find some people who agreed with his theology.</p><br>
<p>The chapel sat largely unused until Eddy&#39;s death in 1888. His will created an endowment aimed at keeping the chapel in use well into the future. That endowment is still active today. Anna Garlin Spencer, a Providence philanthropist and philosopher, was asked to spearhead the creation of a new congregation using the chapel. She remained there ten years and was ordained by the congregation as the first female minister of any denomination in the State of Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>At the present time, Rev. Frieda Gillespie serves as minister and Kristi Martel serves as music director. Services begin every Sunday morning at 10:00.</p><br>
<p>Bell Street Chapel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Blackstone Blvd., Rochambeau Ave., Holly St. and Elmgrove Ave. in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The district features architecture by Marshall B. Martin, William T. Aldrich and other structures of late 19th- and 20th-century colonial revivals. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat Historic District is an approximately 40 acre suburban residential neighborhood in the northeast corner of Providence. Within it are over 100 large, high-style houses on ample, meticulously landscaped lots that line wide, tree-lined streets, now as during the period of significance. Integrity of both individual properties and of the district as a whole remains extremely high.</p><br>
<p>The Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat constitutes a distinguished collection of stylish early and mid-20th-century revival style dwellings as well as a representation of later contemporary styles-all designed and built by some of the locality&#39;s foremost architects and builders.</p><br>
<p>Within the districts roughly trapezoidal area the streets generally follow a grid pattern. It is bordered on the east by Blackstone Boulevard, a broad north-south thoroughfare with two roadways separated by a landscaped esplanade, and on the south by Rochambeau Avenue. Holly Street and Elmgrove Avenue, both running generally north-south, lie just within the districts western boundary. Elmgrove Avenue continues in a gentle "S" curve to join Blackstone Boulevard at the district&#39;s northern boundary. Cole Avenue, a straight north-south street parallel to Elingrove Avenue and Blackstone Boulevard, links Rochambeau to Elmgrove and serves as the spine for four perpendicular cross-streets: Intervale, Westford, Wingate, and Harwich Roads. Balton Road completes the grid, running north-south between Rochambeau and Intervale.</p><br>
<p>Houses in the district are located on large, wide lots that are 8,000, 10,000, or 12,000 square feet. A number of lots exceed even this generous size, and two large lots at the southern end measure 1.75 and 3.59 acres. At the time the plat was developed, the standard Providence house lot was 4,000 to 5,000 square feet. The use of deed restrictions in the design of the dwellings and in their placement within the lot affected the visual quality of the Blackstone Boulevard Realty Plat. Deed restrictions governed minimum lot size, minimum setback, distance between neighboring houses, and garage placement. With the exception of the two large lots, houses within the district are set back a uniform distance of twenty feet from the street.</p><br>
<p>Most dwellings in the plat were built in the late 1920s or early 1930s. They are typically clapboard, brick, brick-veneer, or stucco covered wood-frame construction, executed in revival styles fashionable in the early and mid-20th century. Neo-Georgian and Tudor/Old English Cottage are the most prevalent, followed by Mediterranean, Norman/French Provincial, and a number of stylistic hybrids. Most properties have a garage, either incorporated into the house more frequent in later construction or built separately near the rear of the lot. The free standing garages are often in the style of their houses.</p><br>
<p>Individual lots are well-and often lavishly-landscaped. Meticulous planning and maintenance have produced yards with immaculately clipped and edged green lawns punctuated with trees, shrubs, and beds of a wide variety of native and exotic plants.</p><br>
<p>The integrity of the district is excellent. All buildings have been well maintained. Additions and alterations generally respect the character of original construction. Unsympathetic renovations are few, and generally limited to occasional replacement of original wood siding with aluminum or vinyl-but, without removing trim-and inappropriate replacement windows-usually thermal-pane sash with imitation muntins.</p><br>
<p>Because development within the district did not fill the area before construction ceased during World War II, there are some twenty houses dating from 1946 to the present. New buildings are commensurate in quality with those associated with the period of significance but fall outside the fifty-year eligibility guideline of the National Register. These dwellings, fine examples of 20th-century domestic architecture in their own right, have been included in the inventory of the district as non-contributing buildings. They should be reevaluated in the future for their contribution to the significance of the district.</p><br>
<h2>Houses included in the district</h2><br>
<h3>Gustaf and Marion L. Sweet House; 1951; 20 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Gustaf and Marion L. Sweet House; 1951; 20 Balton Road Providence RI; Elsworth Reed, builder. A one-story split-level, aluminum-sided dwelling with a cross-gable roof. A one-car garage is incorporated at basement level in the projecting wing. Sweet, a physician, had his office at 196 Waterman Street.</p><br>
<h3>Charles H. Hudson House; 1929; 22 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Charles H. Hudson House; 1929; 22 Balton Road, Providence, RI; R. S. Hamilton, architect; Frank N. Gustafson, builder. A one-and-a-half-story, weatherboard and brick, English Cottage dwelling with a cross-gable roof and entrance in the forward-projecting wing. Hudson was a manager for E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company.</p><br>
<h3>Frederick E. and Albina Bodell House; 1928, 25 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Frederick E. and Albina Bodell House 1928, 25 Balton Road, Providence RI: William T. Aldrich of Boston, architect. A handsome dwelling designed in the manner of an 18th-century English manor house, set on a large lot partly surrounded by a brick wall. Constructed of hollow tile with Flemish-bond brick veneer, it has a two-and-a-half-story, hip-roofed main block with a one-and-a-half-story, hip-roofed, L-plan service and garage wing extending from one side. The house has a garden front on the south and an entrance front on the north. The seven-bay garden front has a central segmental-arch-pediment door surmounted by a stone bay with a shallow relief caning of a shouldered architrave around the window. The entrance front, overlooking a motor court framed by the main block and the service wing, has a three-bay, end-gabled entrance pavilion with a doorway-framed by pilasters and a pediment. There are segmental relieving arches over the windows and segmental-arch roof dormers. This is one of the grandest and most costly houses erected in Providence in the 1920s. Bodell was a partner in Bodell & Company, a banking and brokerage firm.</p><br>
<h3>Carl W. Miller House; c. 1926; 32 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Carl W. Miller House; c. 1926; 32 Balton Road, Providence, RI; A two-and-a-half-story, brick-clad, Modern Colonial house with a central recessed doorway framed by pilasters and imposts with rosettes and an entablature broken by an architrave with a plinth block above, and flanked by bay windows. Miller was a professor at Brown University.</p><br>
<p>Garage before 1936: A single-bay, structure located behind the house, not visible from the street.</p><br>
<h3>Sidney A. and Edith Kane House; 1949, 35 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Sidney A. and Edith Kane House 1949, 35 Balton Road, Providence, RI: Royal Barry Wills, architect; Nerforth Brothers, builders. A one-and-a-half-story, weatherboard sheathed Cape Cod cottage with a cross-gable roof and large center chimney. Kane was president of Senak Company of America.</p><br>
<h3>Allen H. Grimwood House; c. 1925: 38 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Allen H. Grimwood House; c. 1925: 38 Balton Road, Providence, RI; George W. Waterman, architect; Silvan Brothers, builder. A two-and-a-half-story shingled Colonial Revival dwelling with a projecting central vestibule and a front dormer. Grimwood was a salesman at H. A. Grimwood Company, lumber dealers at 1163 Westminster Street.</p><br>
<p>Garage 1925: A two-car, one-bay, gable-roofed, weatherboard sheathed structure built contemporaneously with the house.</p><br>
<h3>Edmund J. and Margaret A. Sullivan House; 1931-32; 45 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>Edmund J. and Margaret A. Sullivan House; 1931–32; 45 Balton Road, Providence, RI; Edwin E. Cull, architect; A. H. Leeming & Sons, builder. A large, handsome, two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling in the Georgian Colonial style of the middle Atlantic region, with segmental-arch ground floor windows, paneled shutters, a modillion cornice, segmental-arch dormers, and a high hip roof with a flat central deck surrounded by a balustrade. Set on a corner lot, the house has two facades: one facing Balton Road and one facing a motor court of f Intervale Road. The Balton Road front contains a recessed central doorway trimmed with Ionic pilasters on pedestals, a cushion-frieze entablature, and a segmental-arch pediment. The more elaborate courtyard front has a pedimented doorway in a central projecting entrance pavilion flanked by large bow windows. Sullivan, grandson of rubber magnate Joseph Banigan, lived with his new bride and parents in the family home at 254 Wayland Avenue until this house was completed. Like others in his family, he worked in manufacturing.</p><br>
<h3>John J. Bidder House; c. 1926; 50 Balton Road, Providence, RI</h3><br>
<p>John J. Bidder House; c. 1926; 50 Balton Road, Providence, RI; A two-and-a-half-story, five-bay facade, brick, Colonial Revival dwelling with a center entrance with sidelights. Bidder was the founder of the J. J. Bidder Cordage Company, manufacturers of cordage and rope, located at 251 Tockwotton Street.</p><br>
<p>Blackstone Park Historic District is roughly bounded by the Seekonk River, Laurell Avenue, Blackstone Boulevard, and South Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island within the Blackstone neighborhood of the East Side.</p><br>
<p>In 1886 Horace Cleveland planned the laid out of Blackstone Boulevard and it was constructed in 1894 to provide better access to nearby Swan Point Cemetery. The park in the center was planned and suggested by the Olmsted Brothers.</p><br>
<p>From 1903 to 1948 a trolley line operated down the middle of the boulevard. After the trolley&#39;s removal, a walking path was constructed on trolley bed. The surrounding district features architecture by Howard K. Hilton and contains various 19th-century and 20th-century colonial revivals. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Corliss–Brackett House, also known as the Charles Brackett House, is an historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The house is located at 45 Prospect Street at the southeast corner of Prospect and Angell Streets. According to Richard B. Harrington of the Rhode Island State Historical Preservation Commission, "There remain anywhere very few very formally and more monumentally treated durable masonry examples of the Italian  Villa style."</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house maintains its original exterior appearance. The structure stands three full stories above a low basement; a tower in the houses northwest corner stands a story taller. A two-story service wing to the houses east is separated at street level by a tunnel-like porte-cochère. The house is constructed in the Italian Villa style, which emerged in the United States in the 1840s; the structure is thus slightly retardataire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built between 1875 and 1882 by George Henry Corliss, inventor of the Corliss Steam Engine. Corliss&#39; second wife, Emily Shaw, suffered from an illness for which a doctor recommended she spend her winters in Bermuda. Corliss sought to fulfill the prescription locally by "bringing" the temperate climate of Bermuda to Providence. To this end, he constructed a radiantly heated house, potentially the first in America to employ a radiant heating system controlled by a thermostat. Other unconventional technologies Corliss integrated into the structure include a hydraulic elevator and concealed insect screens.</p><br>
<p>The house was inherited by screenwriter and relative of Corliss, Charles Brackett in 1929. Brackett donated the structure to Brown University in 1955. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. From 1973 to 2013, the house served as the Admission Office for Brown. It is currently occupied by the Brown University Department of Philosophy.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of its carriage house was used on the television series Doctor Doctor to represent Dr. Stratford&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>Martin Hall, also known as the George M. Bradley House is a historic house on the upper campus of Providence College.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1850 by architect Thomas Alexander Tefft in an Italian Villa style for Chief Justice Charles S. Bradley, a successful attorney who served on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. In 1926, the house and properties were purchased by Providence College. The house was given a wood-framed dormitory addition to its rear, becoming Guzman Hall, the colleges first on-campus dormitory. It continued to be a dormitory, housing pre-ecclesiastical students, until 1962, when a new Guzman Hall was opened on land formerly included in the Good Shepherd property, which had been purchased by the college in 1955. After reconstruction in 2022, there were rumors of the building being renamed to “Morze Hall”. At that time, the house was remodeled to its original configuration and renamed for Saint Martin de Porres. Until 1994 the house was used as the house of the President of Providence College, at which time St. Dominic House, another house which was a part of the Good Shepherd property, became the Presidents residence. (This was done because the new president, Rev. Philip A. Smith, O.P., had previously lived in St. Dominic House and did not want to move.) After serving several years as a Dominican residence (like St. Dominic House had before), the house was used as the colleges Office for Institutional Advancement, and is now home to the Colleges Mission and Ministry, as well as Information Technology.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Schoolhouse  is a historic colonial school building at 24 Meeting Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The structure is noted as the home of one of the first free schools in the United States and the first brick schoolhouse in the city of Providence. In 1828, the schoolhouse became the first public school to be open to African American children. Since the 1960s, the Providence Preservation Society has leased the structure from the city for use as a meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Schoolhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972; the building is also a contributing structure to the broader College Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally the plot of land where the Brick Schoolhouse sits was the site of the original County House. The land was owned by William Page, a blacksmith, who deeded the land to the County in December 1729. Construction for the County House finished in 1731 and served as one of the many meeting locations for the Colony government until it burned down in December 1758.</p><br>
<p>The Brick Schoolhouse was built in 1768 and 1769 as Providence&#39;s first brick-built, permanently-purposed school. The timber-frame building was constructed by John Smith and Jonathan Hammon in the Georgian style. After its erection, the first floor of the building was occupied by a free school while the second was home to a private school.</p><br>
<p>In 1770, Brown University was moved from Warren to Providence. Prior to the completion of University Hall, the university held classes in the Brick Schoolhouse. The building was also used by the university&#39;s governing body. During the American Revolutionary War, the Brick Schoolhouse was occupied by Patriots who used the building to manufacture cartridges and store munitions. During this time, the building may have again been used by Brown University, whose students were displaced from University Hall by French troops.</p><br>
<p>In 1786, the Brown University Grammar School relocated the Brick Schoolhouse. Over the subsequent two years, the building was repaired of damage it endured during the war.</p><br>
<p>In 1800, owing to the efforts of John Howland, the building was opened as one of the nations first free public schools. Over the next two centuries, the building housed schools, including a school for African American children, a cooking school, and a fresh air school. During the early 20th century the buildings first floor was also used as an eye and ear clinic. From 1946 to 1957, the Meeting Street School, which educated children with cerebral palsy, met in the Brick Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>Since October 1960, the structure has been used by the Providence Preservation Society— a local preservationist group. Upon their original occupation of the building, the Preservation Society undertook significant restoration efforts. Most visible of these is the replacement of the fresh air windows installed in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a contributing structure to the College Hill Historic District in 1970 and was independently added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgham–Arch–Wilson Streets Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in Providence, Rhode Island. It is located southwest of downtown Providence, and was developed beginning in the 1840s as a suburban part of the city. It is roughly in the shape of a boot, roughly bounded by Cranston, Bridgham, Elmwood, and Harrison Streets. Most of the housing is architecturally reflective of the mid-19th century, with the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire styles well represented. Development in the area slowed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so there are only a modest number of Queen Anne, Stick style, and Colonial Revival properties. Most of the houses are either 1-1/2 or -story wood-frame structures, and are generally set on fairly small lots. There are 175 primary buildings in the district, of which more than 150 are historically significant.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Morris Brown House is a historic house located in Providence, Rhode Island. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure with a large central chimney. The main block is four bays wide and three deep, with a rear ell connecting the house to a 20th-century garage. Documentary evidence suggests it was built in 1793, while architectural evidence suggests an earlier construction date. The house is a well-preserved example of a typical vernacular 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse, and is one of the few 18th century houses remaining in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Burrows Block is an historic commercial building at 735-745 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a three-story brick building with Gothic Revival styling. It was built in 1880 by Caleb Burrows to provide office space for his hardware business, with retail spaces on the ground floor. Although the hardware business declined in the 20th century, the building has seen a variety of commercial and retail tenants, and was purchased by the city in 2002.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by local architect Charles F. Wilcox.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, and is located near the center of the Westminster Street Historic District, listed in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Calvary Baptist Church is an historic church in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>In 1854, the First Baptist Church of South Providence and Fifth Baptist Church merged to form Friendship Baptist Church. The congregation constructed the current building in two phases. In the first, a small chapel (now facing Stanwood Street) was designed by Sidney Rose Badgley and built in 1897. Rapid growth of the congregation meant this space was inadequate soon after it was completed, and the larger main sanctuary, a Gothic Revival octagonal-roof structure drawn from plans by Badgley and Arthur Easton Hill, was built in 1905–1907. After moving to the new location the church was renamed Calvary Baptist Church. The church meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The congregation is currently affiliated with the American Baptist Churches/USA (ABCUSA).</p><br>
<p>The Gottlieb Storz House is located in the Blackstone neighborhood of Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1905 by Omaha beer magnate Gottlieb Storz, the mansion was designated an Omaha Landmark on December 21, 1982, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 1974. It was included in the Gold Coast Historic District when the district was listed in the NRHP on March 14, 1997.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>Prominent German immigrant Gottlieb Storz founded the Storz Brewing Company in Omaha in 1876. After two decades of success he constructed this 27-room mansion in 1905. Built in the Jacobethan Revival style, the Storz Mansion is said to provide a rare visual connection to a "golden era" in Omaha&#39;s history. The mansion is home to the Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom on the top floor, which is the only memorial to their Omaha roots.</p><br>
<p>Built with beige brick and limestone trim, the mansion features a red tile roof, steep gables, rectangular windows with stone mullions and transoms, and a symmetrical facade. Much of the exquisite original interior remains, including hand-carved oak woodwork, a solarium covered by a stained glass dome, and distinctive mosaic fireplaces in the living and dining rooms.</p><br>
<p>The mansion&#39;s heyday was the mid-20th century when Arthur Storz, Jr., owned it. The mansion was the scene of an opulent party celebrating the movie Strategic Air Command in 1955. The movie premiere was held in Omaha and the premiere party was held at the Storz mansion with guests including James Stewart and June Allyson, as well as the Strategic Air Command Commander Curtis LeMay. During that same period Robert Storz raised his son, Todd, in the mansion. Todd Storz grew to love ham radio while living there; he eventually pioneered the Top 40 radio format that grew to popularity around the world.</p><br>
<p>The mansion has continuously been occupied by a single family throughout its history, unlike many of the other notable houses throughout this neighborhood, which were frequently converted from single to multiple-family dwellings, and often reconverted. After it left the Storz family, Michael Gaughan, son of Jackie Gaughan, bought the house in 1989 and gave it to Creighton University in 2002. After leasing it as a residence the university sold the 27-room mansion in 2007. The new owner, Wayne Stuberg, is a professor and director of physical therapy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center&#39;s Munroe-Meyer Institute.</p><br>
<p>The grounds also include a three-story carriage house.</p><br>
<p>The Bier Stube, or gazebo that was previously sat on the west side of the property underwent extensive renovation in 2012 and was relocated to Lauritzen Gardens. The gazebo is believed to be the only remaining structure from Omaha&#39;s Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898.</p><br>
<p>The Old Garrard County Jail is a historic Italianate-style building in Lancaster, Kentucky that was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story four bay building. It has been deemed a "Good example of Italianate style."</p><br>
<p>It was used as the county jail from 1873 to 1986. The building is currently used as a museum known as the Garrard County Jail Museum. Visitors can view the cells, a display commemorating, and local historic and military memorabilia.</p><br>
<p>The A.F. Cappelli Block is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building at 263 Atwells Avenue, facing DePasquale Plaza in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It is a four-story brick structure, with two storefronts on the ground floor, and residential units on the upper floors. It is faced in red brick, with tan bricks at the corners giving it a quoined appearance. The store fronts feature original cast iron finishes. It was built in 1909 by Antonio Cappelli, and was  one of the tallest buildings in the Federal Hill area.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. George W. Carr House, also known simply as Carr House, is a historic house at 29 Waterman Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The Queen Anne style house was built in 1885 by Edward I. Nickerson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1916, and has served a variety of roles for the school, most recently as a student cafe named Carr Haus and lounge at RISD. It is one of Providence&#39;s early prominent examples of Queen Anne styling. The house is built on a steep slope and located at the corner of a busy intersection of Waterman Street and Benefit Street.</p><br>
<p>In 1916, the Providence Engineering Society occupied the entire second floor of the building, then owned by RISD. In 1926, artist Frank Convers Mathewson (1862–1941) lived in the Carr House.</p><br>
<p>The Chemical Building is a historic wastewater treatment building at Fields Point Wastewater Treatment Facility in Providence, Rhode Island. Built in 1900–01, it is one of the two oldest buildings at Providences main sewage treatment facility. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure measuring 103 ft by 38 ft. The long facades are divided into 9 bays, separated by brick piers. When originally built, the structure had a concrete first floor, a wooden second floor, and a loft area accessed by catwalks, and was used to hold and deliver chemicals used to neutralize the wastewater arriving via the Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station. In the 1930s the plant was converted to use an active sludge process, and the interior of the building was altered to be a single large chamber.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church was an historic Episcopal church at 909 Eddy Street in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic church was built in 1888 by William R. Walker & Son and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The church sat empty for a number of years after being closed in 1981, and began to deteriorate, earning it a place on the Providence Preservation Society annual 10 Most Endangered Properties List in 1999 and again in 2003. The building was demolished in January, 2006.</p><br>
<p>Columbus is a historic statue in Johnston, Rhode Island. The statue is a bronze cast of a sterling silver statue which was created by Rhode Islands Gorham Manufacturing Company for the 1892 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The original silver statue was not meant for permanent exhibition, but rather as a demonstration of the skills of the Gorham Company, and was later melted down. The bronze cast was dedicated on November 8, 1893, in Columbus Square, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States as a gift from the Elmwood Association to the City of Providence.</p><br>
<p>The bronze statue was created in 1893 by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It was removed from Columbus Square in 2020 by the City of Providence and reinstalled in the nearby town of Johnston in 2023.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Columbian Exposition</h3><br>
<p>Cast in 1893, the statue of Columbus was produced by the Gorham Manufacturing Company who commissioned master sculptor, Auguste Bartholdi. The bronze statue is a cast of the original made of sterling silver, which was commissioned for the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. For the upcoming exposition, Gorham wanted a demonstration piece to show the skill of its foundry and commissioned Bartholdi to create a statue of Columbus. The completed model was shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to be cast from 30,000 ounces of silver at Providence, Rhode Island. The casting was a ceremonial affair, where guests "were feted as they watched the process". Gorham officials accompanied and shipped the statue to Chicago via rail. It served as a demonstration piece at the exposition, showcasing the skill of its foundry in the technically difficult task of casting a work in sterling silver. After the exposition, the statue was returned to Providence where it was melted down: a silver statue was impractical as a permanent outdoor sculpture and the piece had already served its celebratory and advertisement purpose.</p><br>
<h3>Bronze replica</h3><br>
<p>In 1893, a bronze replica of Columbus was cast by the Gorham company and gifted to the City of Providence by the Elmwood Association, a civic group from a neighborhood near Gorham. It is known that Bartholdi visited Newport, Rhode Island in 1893, but it is unknown if he was involved in the production of the bronze cast. The statue was dedicated on November 8, 1893, at 2:30 p.m. Professor Alonzo Williams was the presenter of the statue to the city and Mayor Potter acted as "response on behalf the city". Music was provided by the Reeves American Band and the song "Columbus" was performed. The oration was given by Reverend H. W. Rugg and a chorus of children lead the crowd in singing "My Country, &#39;Tis of Thee". The site of the statue was originally deeded to the Town of Cranston by Joseph Cooke on May 24, 1824. The Town of Cranston deeded it to Providence in 1868 and renamed it Columbus Park in 1893.</p><br>
<h3>Reactions</h3><br>
<p>The statue was sometimes a focal point for Columbus Day ceremonies and speeches. One such event in 1939 was attended by the mayor, alderman, and council members.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the statue was defaced on Columbus Day with red paint and a sign reading "murderer" hanging from its waist. The statue was again vandalized with paint in 2015 and 2017, raising questions in the media as to the appropriateness of honoring Columbus with a public statue.</p><br>
<p>In October 2019, the statue was splashed with red paint, and a sign reading "stop celebrating genocide" was leaned against the pedestal, again prompting local controversy. Providence councilwoman Katherine Kerwin of Ward 12 defended the actions on a local radio program hosted by RI WJAR anchor Gene Valicenti, prompting backlash and national news media attention. Mayor Jorge Elorza stated that he would consider moving the statue, though did not commit to where. Some of Rhode Islands Italian American community were pushing for a move from Elmwood to the Federal Hill neighborhood, which has historically been the center of Providences Italian American community.</p><br>
<h3>Relocation</h3><br>
<p>In June 2020, on the order of mayor Jorge Elorza, the statue was removed from Columbus Square as the city had been dispatching police officers to watch the statue due to vandalism.</p><br>
<p>A special committee recommended in 2021 that the statue be removed permanently, appraised, and possibly offered for sale with the funds being devoted to amenities and beautification of Columbus Square/Reservoir Triangle. In 2023, Former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino purchased the statue for $50,000 and donated the statue to Johnston, Rhode Island. The statue was placed in Johnston Memorial Park, with the unveiling held on Columbus Day 2023.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The bronze cast depicts a 6.6 ft high by 4.5 ft wide and deep, "larger-than-life size" standing figure of Christopher Columbus atop a 5.25 ft by 5.33 ft plain square base of grey Westerly, Rhode Island granite. The National Historic Register of Places nomination describes the statue: "The explorer is caught in mid-stride, his left foot stepping off the base. In his left hand he holds a globe; his right arm is raised, his index finger pointing, as if giving an order or sighting land. Columbus wears a short tunic; a wide belt wraps the waist; a second belt across the hip holds a sword. A short</p><br>
<p>full cloak billows out around the figure, and he wears a brimmed hat. There is a coil of line at his feet." The square base is inscribed with "Columbus" on the front, "1492" on the right side and "1893" on the left side.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the nomination, the statue was reported to be in good overall condition, but had some very small cracks in the figure and the tail ends of the bronze swag were missing. The base was also in good condition with only some chipping on the lower edge of the base being noted in the nomination.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination lists the Columbus statue under both criteria A and C. Criterion A requires that the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history, and criterion C concerns the distinctive characteristics of its architecture and construction, including having great artistic value or being the work of a master. The basis for meeting criterion A is that the work is an example of the Gorham Manufacturing Companys large statue. Columbus was listed under criterion C as an example of Auguste Bartholdis work. The statue has not been moved from its original location, but the "significance of the work is not dependent upon its setting but is encompassed within the object itself." Columbus was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Though it is a bronze cast copy of the original silver work, the sculpture itself was declared a masterpiece because "ife and vigor are implied in every line and feature, and the general effect is one of great beauty." In relation to the original silver cast, James Wilson Pierce declared it as an exemplary work of art that surpasses all other Christopher Columbus sculptures in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The Congdon Street Baptist Church is an historically African American church at 17 Congdon Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. In its early years the congregation was part of the African Union Meeting and Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was established in 1819 and originally met in a building located near the present site, the land having been given to them by Moses Brown. The building was torn down in 1869 without the congregation&#39;s knowledge or approval by white neighbors. The present building, a single-story Italianate structure, was built in 1874–75. The eaves and gables are decorated with sawn woodwork that resembles brick corbeling. The windows along the long sides of the building are tall sash windows with a segmented-arch top, while the street-facing gable end has a three-part round-arch window. The stages of the square tower repeat the corbel woodwork at each level. The church is set into a hill, exposing a full brick basement, through which entrance to the building is gained. The interior is decorated with plain Victorian woodwork and stenciling on the walls.</p><br>
<p>The architects were Hartshorn & Wilcox. Hartshorn was the successor of Thomas A. Tefft and this church echoes many of his designs.</p><br>
<p>In December 1968, 65 Black students from Brown University marched down College Hill to the Congdon Street Baptist Church. They remained in the church for three days, as a protest of the small number of Black students admitted to the University as well as a lack of institutional support.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 for its architectural significance, and is part of the College Hill Historic District</p><br>
<p>The John Corliss House  is an historic house in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The house is a -story wood-frame structure with a gambrel roof, built c. 1746–1750 as a duplex, housing the families of Dinah Kilton and David Wilkinson. Both sides of the house were acquired by 1763 by George Corliss, who converted it to single-family use. The exterior has relatively plain Georgian styling, while the interior has been the subject of significant alteration, due to Corliss&#39; alterations as well as later renovations. In the 20th century the property was used for commercial retail purposes, and some of its additions were eventually destroyed by fire. John Corliss, the son of George, was a prominent businessman who contributed significantly to the economic development of Providence in the decades around the turn of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>This house is one of the few pre-Revolutionary buildings to survive an 1801 fire in the area, and now sits somewhat incongruously in an area occupied mostly by larger commercial brick buildings.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Covell Street School  is an historic school building at 231 Amherst Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a two-story wood-frame structure built in a typically elaborate Queen Anne style. Although it is basically rectangular in plan, its roofline and exterior are busy, with a complicated group of cross gables, hip-roof sections, with projecting and recessed sections. A three-story square tower rises from the center of the main facade. Built in 1885 and opened in 1886, it is one of Providence&#39;s last surviving 19th-century neighborhood school buildings. It was designed by the local firm of William R. Walker & Son, designers of many Rhode Island civic buildings. The builders were John L. Sprague & Company.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Customhouse Historic District is a historic district encompassing fifteen historic buildings in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. The district is bounded by Westminster, Exchange, Dyer, Pine, and Peck Streets, and includes eight buildings associated with the important functions of the business center Providence became in the mid-to-late 19th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is completely contained within the Downtown Providence Historic District, listed in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The district is centered on the United States Customshouse, a three-story granite structure built in 1857 to a design by Ammi B. Young; it was listed on the National Register in 1972. Seven buildings in its immediate vicinity were built between about 1850 and 1920, which housed businesses critical for the functioning of Rhode Islands growing industrial economy. Notable among these is the 1855 Bank of North America Building, a narrow four-story brownstone designed by locally prominent architect Thomas Tefft. The oldest building in the district, now known as the Westminster Arcade, was designed by Russell Warren and built in 1828. Notable for its Greek temple front, it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and was the nations first enclosed shopping mall. The Equitable Building, built in 1872, is one of the first buildings in the city to feature a cast iron facade.</p><br>
<h2>Notable structures</h2><br>
<p>The Davol Rubber Company is a historic industrial site at Davol Square, at Point and Eddy Streets in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1880 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located adjacent to the historic South Street Landing, which was renovated in 2017. The Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Historic District is also nearby.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Perkins Manufacturing Company was founded in Providence by Emery Perkins and Joseph Davol in 1874, after two years of experiments and inventions by Joseph Davol. It produced rubber medical and surgical devices, such as hot water bottles and catheters. In 1878, Davol took control of the company and renamed it the Davol Manufacturing Company; in 1884 it became the Davol Rubber Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, the company began the manufacture of the Foley catheter. In 1971, the Davol Rubber Company opened a new facility in nearby Cranston, Rhode Island. The company was acquired by C.R. Bard, Inc. of New Jersey in 1980. The Davol Company, as it is currently known, is now located in Warwick, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<h2>Recent projects</h2><br>
<p>Since Davol Rubber left, the building has had a series of tenants. The short-lived Davol Square Marketplace mall occupied the building complex in the 1980s. Later, it housed a mini-convention center for the costume jewelry industry for a short while. Various projects associated with Brown University have rented space in the building for many years, and the university recently announced plans to buy several buildings in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Henry Deming House is a historic home in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, and is one of the most elaborate Second Empire mansions in the city&#39;s Elmwood neighborhood. Built c. 1870 for a wealthy cotton broker, it has a mansard roof, bracketed window hoods, and an elaborately decorated front porch. It has retained much of its interior woodwork, despite its conversion to apartments.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Richard Henry Deming</h2><br>
<p>Richard H. Deming served on the Providence City Council, and as city police commissioner. He served as president of the Providence Board of Park Commissioners from 1892 to 1902. As parks commissioner, Deming oversaw the construction of the Boathouse and Casino at Roger Williams Park. A memorial to Deming was erected in the park in 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Dexter House is a historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1795–1797, with a hip roof topped by a square monitor. Its main facade is five bays wide, with the center bay flanked by two-story pilasters and topped by a small gable pediment. The well-preserved interior provided a template for an early-20th-century museum space designed by the Rhode Island School of Design to house a furniture collection donated by the houses then-owner, Charles Pendleton. The house is one of the few 18th-century houses in the citys College Hill neighborhood. It was originally located at the corner of George and Prospect Streets; in 1860 it was sawed in half and moved in sections to its present location.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Jeremiah Dexter House is a historic colonial house in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, built in 1754 for printer Jeremiah Dexter on farm land that was originally granted to his ancestor Gregory Dexter, a friend and printer for Roger Williams. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney typical of the period, and is one of the few surviving colonial-era farmhouses in the city. The Dexter farm is further notable as the site where French Army troops were stationed upon their return from Virginia in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War. The paved parking lot which surrounds the house on two sides is believed to contain archaeological remains of the French camp.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Dowler House is an historic house at 581 Smith Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story mansard-roofed wood-frame structure, built in 1872 by Charles Parker Dowler, a local artist. The building typifies a cottage ornée, or decorated cottage, a building style popular in the 1860s and 1870s. It is an elaborately decorated Second Empire structure, with an asymmetrical T layout, detailed decoration in the dormers which pierce the fish-scale-shingled mansard roof, and a porch in the crook of the T which is supported by Corinthian columns. The interior retains both extensive period woodwork and wall paintings.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
