<p>The Doyle Avenue Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It extends along Doyle Avenue from North Main Street in the west to Proctor Place . This area was developed residentially between 1860 and 1920, with an architecturally diverse collection of houses , generally set on small lots with only modest setback from the sidewalk. Land on the south side of Doyle Avenue was owned by the Dexter Commission, which managed a large tract of land bequested to the city by Ebenezer Dexter. This land was originally leased to developers. One of the first houses built in this area was the c. 1875 Thomas Collins House at 33 Doyle Avenue, a 2-1/2 story Italianate duplex.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Dyerville Mill is an historic textile mill complex at 610 Manton Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Its oldest buildings dating to 1835, it is one of the oldest textile mills in the city. The complex is located between Manton Avenue and the Woonasquatucket River, just south of the Dyerville Mill Pond. Remnants of the head race run south from the pond, through the property, with the tail race exiting to the southwest. The main mill building is a -story L-shaped stuccoed stone structure. The picker house is a -story stone structure southwest of the main mill, with a brick extension that also gives it an L shape and creates a courtyard with the main building. A 20th-century warehouse stands south of this complex. The mill was established by Elisha Dyer, father of Elisha Dyer and grandfather of Elisha Dyer, Jr., and was operated by the Dyer family until 1867. It was then operated by cotton broker Truman Beckwith and his son. The Joslin Manufacturing Company purchased the business in 1903 and operated textile production on the site until the 1930s. The site has thereafter seen other light industrial uses.</p><br>
<p>The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to The Groden Network of Services.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Building is a historic commercial building at 100 North Main Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The five-story masonry building was built in 1872 for noted local developer Rufus Waterman.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Alfred Stone and is one of Providence&#39;s few surviving commercial buildings with a cast iron facade. The facade is five bays wide, the bays separated by engaged Corinthian columns, with each floor separated from the next by an entablature with bracketed frieze. The outer bays have paired windows, while the three inner bays have larger sash windows. The decorative elements of the main facade are continued for a bay with paired windows on the left side elevation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Building was formerly accompanied by another building designed by Stone. This structure, the Gilbert Congdon & Co. (Congdon & Carpenter) Building, was built in 1869 directly to the east, at Canal and Elizabeth Streets. Now demolished, it was similar to the still-standing Owen Building of 1866.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Building has been a contributing structure of the College Hill Historic District since 1970.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the building was independently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Elmgrove Gardens Historic District is a residential historic district in northeastern Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is bounded on the north by Rochambeau Street, on the south by Woodbury Street, on the east by Cole Street, and on the west by Morris Avenue. This area was developed most heavily between 1908 and 1948, and is a well-preserved example of an early automotive suburban residential area. Most of the houses in the district are either 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, and are built in an architecturally diverse variety of styles. The district also includes to 18th-century farmhouses , reminders of the area&#39;s agrarian past.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Elmwood Historic District encompasses two large residential sections of the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The Elmwood area was mainly farmland until the mid-19th century, when its development as a residential area began, and these two sections represents well-preserved neighborhoods developed between about 1850 and 1920. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The northern enclave of the district is roughly bounded by Elmwood Avenue on the west, and extends east along Whitmarsh Street and Princeton Avenue most of the way to Broad Street. It also includes the western half of the blocks of Moore, Dabol, and Mawney Streets adjacent to Elmwood, as well as the Knight Memorial Library, which is the neighborhood&#39;s finest public structure. This area features a concentration of Second Empire houses along Moore, Dabol, and Mawney, and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses on Princeton and Whitmarsh.</p><br>
<p>The southern enclave is also bounded on the west by Elmwood Avenue, and extends from Congress Avenue to Adelaide Avenue, including Columbus Square, where the separately-listed Columbus statue formerly stood. It extends eastward on Adelaide as far as Emerson Street, and along the other side streets to the far side of Melrose Street. This area is characterized by late 19th-century and early 20th century construction, predominantly Queen Anne and Colonial Revival in style. Lot sizes are more generous than those in the northern section.</p><br>
<p>The Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station is an historic wastewater pumping station at Ernest and Ellis Streets near the wastewater treatment facility at Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island. The surviving elements of the station include a main pumphouse and a smaller screening house, both built in 1897-98 as part of a major effort to modernize Providences sewage treatment facilities. A third structure, a boiler house, was demolished in 1987, and a tall smokestack was taken down in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The main pumphouse is a tall single-story brick structure with a hip roof and Colonial Revival features, and is set near Ernest Street, a short way east of its junction with Allens Avenue. The screening house is a smaller square structure, also with a hip roof, set behind and to the right of the pumphouse. The facility is used to pump raw sewage through an 88-inch main to the treatment facility.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The First Universalist Church is a historic church at 250 Washington Street in Providence, Rhode Island.</p><br>
<p>The brick Gothic church was designed by Edwin L. Howland, a prominent local architect, and built in 1871–72. It is the third sanctuary for a congregation that was founded in 1821 through the efforts of Reverend John Murray, "the founder of American Universalism". It is one of the few remaining church buildings in central Providence, an area that once housed a large number of churches.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Freeman Plat Historic District is a residential historic district on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. The district is a well-preserved example of an early-20th-century planned residential area, encompassing some 50 acre. It is roughly bounded by Sessions Street, Morris Avenue, Laurel Avenue, and Wayland Avenue, and consists of a network of generously-landscaped winding roads, laid out in consultation with the Olmsted Brothers design firm. The houses built are generally of high quality, many of them architect-designed, with architecturally diverse revival styles popular at the time. The area was developed between 1916 and 1929 by John Freeman, who owned a country estate in the area, and sought a way to develop the largely swampy tract.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church is an historic church at 15 Hayes Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The single-story brick structure was designed by Martin Hedmark, and built in 1925-28 for a predominantly Scandinavian congregation established in 1890. The brick is laid in patterns, and the tower features a stepped gable roof. The corners of the main facade have small turrets, one topped with a lantern spire, the other with a needle. The design includes vernacular elements of Swedish architecture, a feature not generally found in the area. Originally, the church was built for a Swedish congregation, but today accepts many other nationalities and cultures, including Angola, Liberia, Tanzania, Portugal, Germany, Haiti, Jamaica, Britain, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, and numerous others.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Grace Church is an historic Episcopal church at 300 Westminster Street at Mathewson Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1845–1846 and was designed by Richard Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and is part of the Downtown Providence Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>The church building was designed by architect Richard Upjohn and built in 1845–46, when the area had a much more residential character. It is a relatively simple expression of Gothic Revival architecture, and is notable as the first building in which Upjohn used asymmetry in a church&#39;s massing. In 1912, Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson added a parish house which connects with the church through several narrow, twisting stairwells and passages. The parish house was remodeled and enlarged in 1950 by Harkness & Geddes.</p><br>
<h3>Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>The Grace Church cemetery is a triangular parcel of land located about a mile southwest of the church in the Trinity Square Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1829, the population of Providence was spreading from the east side of the Providence River to the west.</p><br>
<p>Grace Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>By the early 21st Century, the church was badly in need of repair, suffering from crumbling stonework and leaky stained glass windows. The closing of the Cathedral of St. John in 2012 put added pressure on Grace Church. In 2015, a multimillion-dollar restoration project was undertaken to expand and preserve Grace Church. In addition to repairs, the old parish hall will be extended with an accessible glass-enclosed single-story structure, which will allow the church to host suppers and events.</p><br>
<h2>Parishioners</h2><br>
<p>When Grace Church was established, the neighborhood around Westminster Street was more residential and the church was associated with Providence&#39;s Protestant elite.</p><br>
<p>Rhode Island Governor Elisha Dyer and his family were members of Grace Church.</p><br>
<p>The First Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island and Rector of Grace Church, John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw is buried in Grace Church cemetery. He is credited with managing the completion of the existing building on Mathewson Street.</p><br>
<p>Russell Warren, architect, member of the church, and designer of the pre-Upjohn church is buried in Grace Church cemetery in a lot next to the bishops.</p><br>
<p>Rhode Island Governor Nehemiah R. Knight and Senator Albert C. Greene are buried in the church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Soprano Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones is buried in the church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>After a long period of declining residential character, the Providence downtown is once again growing in population. The Grace Church congregation is drawing a more diverse congregation, including many from the city&#39;s growing Liberian community.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Haile House  is an historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story brick structure, appearing taller than that due to its hillside location and raised basement. It is a well-preserved example of Federal styling, which underwent a careful restoration in the 1930s by George Warren Gardner, who filled the house with early American furniture. The Gardners bequested the property to Brown University, which uses it to house visiting dignitaries.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Hay and Owen Buildings are a pair of historic commercial buildings in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.</p><br>
<p>The Owen Building (101 Dyer Street) was built in 1866 as two buildings, with a narrow alley running between them. They were designed by Alfred Stone for George and Smith Owen (G. & S. Owen), whose sons operated a wholesale yarn business on the premises. In 1877 Stone, as Stone & Carpenter, returned to remodel the buildings. The southern part, a four-story, nine-bay building, remained as it was built in 1866. In contrast, the northern part was radically changed. It was extended to meet the southern part, and a new fifth floor was added. A great deal of new ornamentation was also added at this time. Thus, the plural Owen Buildings became the Owen Building. The two parts originally met in the same way on both the east and west elevations. The original design remains on the west, but the east side was filled in with a flat brick wall sometime between 1918 and 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Hay Building (117-135 Dyer Street) is a four-story structure, built in 1867 for Alexander Duncan, as a speculative business venture. It was designed by James C. Bucklin. The Hay Building was formerly the Hay Buildings, as a matching structure once stood on the parking lot behind the building. Despite its mansard roof, the otherwise plain design of the building recalls Bucklin&#39;s earlier Greek Revival designs.</p><br>
<p>The two buildings are survivors of the era when the Weybosset Hill area was a center of Providence&#39;s commercial port.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Hope Block and Cheapside are two historic commercial buildings located at 22-26 and 40 North Main Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The Hope Block  was built in 1869 in the Second Empire style. It was probably designed by Clifton A. Hall, who designed a nearly identical building  the year before. The Cheapside Block  was built in 1880 and designed by architects Stone & Carpenter. They are the only two buildings to survive from the 1860s-70s development of the "Cheapside" area of Providence, north of the site of its colonial marketplace.</p><br>
<p>Both buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and were restored during the 1980s as part of the Rhode Island School of Design. The RISD Store is located in the Hope Block, while the RISD Design Center occupies the Cheapside Block.</p><br>
<p>The Hope–Power–Cooke Streets Historic District is a residential historic district on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. Located east of Brown University, the area is compact area developed in the mid-to-late 19th century as a residential district, with a cross-section of architectural styles from the early 19th to the early 20th century. The district is bounded on the north by Angell Street, on the east by Governor Street, on the south by Power Street, and on the west by Hope Street. Cooke Street is the main thorough fare running through the center of the district, which is six blocks long and two wide. The district abuts the Stimson Avenue Historic District, which lies immediately to its west.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas F. Hoppin House is a historic house at 383 Benefit Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The house was built c. 1853 to a design by Alpheus C. Morse, and is an elaborate local example of an Italianate palazzo-style residence. The Library of Congress called the property "one of the largest and most elegant houses built in Providence in the mid-nineteenth century."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The previous house on the property was the Clark House, built by John I. Clark, which was destroyed by a fire in 1849.</p><br>
<p>The current mansion was built for Thomas Frederick Hoppin (1816-1872), son of Thomas Coles Hoppin and Harriet Dunn Hoppin, a prominent local family of diplomats, physicians, artists, and architects which included his brother, illustrator Augustus Hoppin. Thomas Frederick was a painter, sculptor and engraver.</p><br>
<p>At one time, the front lawn was home to "The Sentinel," a bronze statue of a dog, which was designed by Hoppin and cast by the Gorham Company; the statue was later moved to Roger Williams Park.</p><br>
<p>The Hoppins were well known for the social gatherings, and their house became known as the "house of a thousand candles".</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Until 2019 the mansion was home to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. In 2021, Brown sold the property for $2 million. The new owner intends to implement a "first class renovation" and convert the property to a luxury apartment building with about a half dozen units.</p><br>
<p>The Jones Warehouses are an historic industrial area at 49–63 Central Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a complex of five buildings, of which four were built as storage facilities. The fifth building is a -story wood-frame structure with a clerestory roof, built 1861–1865 by Winsor and Brown as a munitions factory; it was converted into a storage facility in the 1890s. This building is one of the oldest factory buildings in the city, its historic structure clearly visible despite the addition of storage vaults. Between 1890 and 1900 three brick buildings, respectively two, five, and seven stories in height, were built behind the old factory building, and are among the oldest purpose-built warehouses in the city. The second of these was designed by the local firm of Gould, Angell & Swift, and exhibits modest Richardsonian Romanesque styling. A five-story reinforced concrete structure was added to the complex around 1927.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Jones Warehouses sign Providence RI.jpgPainted sign</p><br>
<p>Louttit Laundry was at one time the largest laundry business in Rhode Island, with 150 employees and 16 outlets throughout the state. Their historic building at 93 Cranston Street  was on the National Register of Historic Places. The company was sold in 1985 and closed in 1987. The Cranston Street building was built in 1906, expanded in 1925, damaged by fire in 2001, and demolished in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Louttit&#39;s Home Hand Laundry</p><br>
<h2>Building at 93 Cranston Street</h2><br>
<p>The main building was a long two-story brick structure with modest Georgian Colonial Revival styling built in 1906, with an office block at one end, added in 1925. Its frontispiece featured a "projecting pedimented entrance."</p><br>
<p>Louttit moved to the 93 Cranston Street location in 1918, where the What Cheer Laundry (purchased by Loutitt) had operated since 1901. Loutitt operated from a 1906 building built by the What Cheer proprietors, and expanded in 1925 with the construction of this larger facility. At that time, Louttit was the largest laundry facility in Rhode Island, with over 150 employees and 16 locations. The building complex was sold in 1985 for 1.2 million dollars, and it closed two years later. A fire in 2001 destroyed most of the original 1906 building, leaving only the 1925 building standing.</p><br>
<p>The ground under the lot was contaminated over the years with cleaning chemicals and heating oil, requiring an extensive cleanup before the land could be used again. In 2005, the city received a $200,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for a cleanup.</p><br>
<p>The building sat vacant from 1987 to 2008 and appeared on preservationist lists several times. The city foreclosed on the property in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, the soil contamination was judged so bad that the only way to clean up the site would be to take down the building.</p><br>
<p>The lot is now home to Urban Greens, a food co-op, and a sustainably built apartment complex.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation efforts</h2><br>
<p>In an effort to attract attention to the site, the Providence Preservation Society listed the site on their Most Endangered List seven times, as well as listing it on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Louttit Home Hand Laundry Providence RI.pngReceipt masthead of Louttit Laundry</p><br>
<p>Louttit Laundry southern facade, April 2002, looking west northwest.jpgSouthern façade of Louttit Laundry, 2002</p><br>
<p>Detail of the painted medallion above the main doorway of Louttit Laundry, southern facade, April 2002, looking northwest.jpgDetail of medallion above main entrance, 2002</p><br>
<p>Louttit Laundry along Cranston Street showing blade signs, April 2002, looking southwest.jpgSign details along Cranston Street, 2002</p><br>
<p>Louttit Laundry southeast facade, May 2008, looking north.jpgFacade along Cranston St in 2008</p><br>
<p>The What Cheer Laundry main entrance medallion, July 2020.jpgSaved medallion of the former What Cheer Laundry</p><br>
<p>The Matthew Lynch House is an historic house at 120 Robinson Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The house is a modest -story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, resting on a brick foundation. It was probably built in the late 18th century as a farmhouse on the west bank of the Providence River in what was then agricultural area , around where Grace Church now stands, on Matthewson Street. It was moved about 1865 to the South Providence area known as "Dogtown", an area of Irish immigrants and slaughterhouses. The Lynch house was one of several older houses moved to Dogtown at this time. The Lynch family occupied the house from 1863 to 1937; the house changed hands several times and fell into dereliction. It was rehabilitated in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Market House is a historic three-story brick market house in Market Square, in the College Hill, a neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The building was constructed between 1773 and 1775 and designed by prominent local architects, Joseph Brown and Declaration of Independence signer Stephen Hopkins. The bottom floor of the house was used as a market, and the upper level was used for holding meetings. Similar buildings existed in other American cities, such as Faneuil Hall in Boston and the Old Brick Market in Newport. The building housed the Providence City Council in the decades before the completion of City Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The primary architect for the Market House was Joseph Brown, then the foremost architect of the city. Brown&#39;s previous commissioned work included University Hall at Brown University and the First Baptist Meeting House. Brown was assisted in the design process by Stephen Hopkins.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally two stories in height, topped by a low gable roof. In 1797, a third floor was added to the house, which housed the first Masonic Lodge in Rhode Island. At this time, a wooden balustrade was added to the roof of the building. The east gable features a large bull&#39;s-eye window, while the west gable features a clock, installed in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>With the exception of the building&#39;s eastern end, the first floor of is surrounded on all sides by a series of large round arches that originally formed an arcade. In the 19th century, the arcade was closed off with the installation of windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1833, architect James C. Bucklin designed a two-story addition on the east end of the building. This addition provided an entrance to the third story Masonic hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In August 1771, a petition signed by a number of townspeople was presented to the General Assembly, asking for a market house. The General Assembly raised funds through a lottery to erect a building in a location proposed by David Bucklin. Excavations on Market House began on May 25, 1773 and were completed in 1775.</p><br>
<p>Almost immediately, Market House became the center of civic life in Providence, Rhode Island, due to its central location at the east end of the Weybosset Bridge. On March 2, 1775, residents gathered there to show their resistance to British taxation by burning British tea.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolution, the buildings were used as barracks for French soldiers encamped in Providence.</p><br>
<p>The buildings third floor housed the first Masonic Lodge in Rhode Island. Thomas Smith Webb was a member of the lodge, and in 1802 Webb organized St. Johns Encampment Number One, which was the first Knights Templar organization in America.</p><br>
<p>In 1832, Providence Mayor Samuel W. Bridgham moved Providence City Council to meet in Market House. At first, the City Council, Mayor&#39;s Office, and Board of Aldermen were located on the second floor. As the city grew, the city government purchased the third floor from the Masons, and eventually occupied the entire building, which was then renamed the "City Building." By 1845 the city government outgrew the building and drew up plans to build a new City Hall. By 1878 the new City Hall was completed and the city vacated Market House.</p><br>
<p>In the years after the city left the building, tenants included the Providence Board of Trade (later known as the Chamber of Commerce), the Henry Lippitt Company, several manufacturing companies, a barber, the Rhode Island Poultry Association, and the Rhode Island Electric Light Company. Market Square and Westminster Street were the first parts of Providence to receive electric street lights.</p><br>
<p>The building underwent some restoration work in the 1930s, and by 1940 the building was restored to its 1833 appearance. In 1948, Mayor Dennis J. Roberts signed a deed to give the building to the Rhode Island School of Design, with the provision that the exterior of the building be maintained. Architect John Hutchins Cady was hired to remodel the interior with classrooms and studios.</p><br>
<p>A pair of plaques on the exterior wall marks the highest water levels reached during the Great Storm of 1815 and the Hurricane of 1938.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Israel B. Mason House is an historic house at 571 Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1888 for Israel Bowen Mason, a wealthy merchant. It is one of the city&#39;s finest Queen Anne residences, with a visually complex assortment of projecting bays, verandas, turrets and gables. Particularly of note are its eastern porch and three-story octagonal tower. The house was designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, a prominent local architecture firm, for Mason, a self-made successful wholesaler of grocery and meat products. The house now houses a funeral home.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Merchants Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 32 Westminster Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It is a six-story brownstone structure, designed by Alpheus C. Morse and Clifton A. Hall and built in 1855–57. When built, this Italianate structure was one of the first buildings of Providence&#39;s financial district, and is now surrounded by much larger modern skyscrapers. It is architecturally reminiscent of Roman palazzos, with an arcaded ground floor, second-level windows topped by alternating segmented-arch and triangular pediments, and a projecting cornice with dentil moulding and modillions. The building served as the headquarters of the Merchants Bank until it merged with Providence National Bank in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Rising Sun Mill, formerly the National and Providence Worsted Mills, are a historic textile mill complex located at 166 Valley Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The complex consists of thirteen brick and stone structures, ranging in height from one to four stories, located on the banks of the Woonasquatucket River in the Olneyville neighborhood of the city. Most of them were built between 1880 and 1890, with a small number from 1907 and later. The National and Providence Company and its successors operated here from 1881 into the 1950s, a time period when Providence was a leading manufacturer of worsted wool material.</p><br>
<p>The mills were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The New England Butt Company is a historic factory building at 304 Pearl Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story brick structure with a monitor roof, built in 1865 to designs by Spencer P. Read. The New England Butt Company originally manufactured cast iron butt hinges, but later changed to producing machinery for braiding and stranding wire. Many of the machines are still used today by wire companies throughout the world.</p><br>
<p>The New England Butt Company factory building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Watson went out of business in 2001 and the drawings were purchased by Kinrei of America, LLC. Today, information about the older stranding machines is available through Kinrei of America, LLC, in Wayne, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholson File Company Mill Complex is a historic industrial manufacturing complex at 1-45 Acorn Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of 24 buildings occupying 7 acre of land, of which 20 are historically significant. The oldest of the buildings were built in 1865 to designs by William Nicholson, and the complex was regularly expanded over the decades through the early 20th century. The Nicholson File Company was a major producer of machine-made s, started by William Nicholson in 1859. The company manufactured precision tools used in the manufacture of armaments during the American Civil War for the Union Army, and closed the plant in 1959. It has been used by a variety of light industrial concerns since then.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Oakland Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district in the Smith Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The area is a densely built stretch of Oakland and Pembroke Avenues, extending from Eaton Street in the north to about half-way between Chad Brown Street and Smith Street in the south. Only buildings on the east side of Pembroke are included, while both sides of Oakland Avenue are, as are a few properties on adjacent roads. All but two of the 110 buildings in the district are residential, and are set on small lots of similar size. The houses are almost all multi-unit, housing either two or three units, and were built in between 1890 and 1930. The district represents a dense and well-preserved collection of this type of housing in the city, and was one of its last "inner city" areas to be developed.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Olney Street–Alumni Avenue Historic District is a residential historic district in northeastern Providence, Rhode Island. Located just north of the Moses Brown School campus, this is an enclave of 53 tasteful yet conservative houses built between about 1880 and 1938. It includes houses along Olney Street and Alumni Avenue between Hope and Arlington Streets, and includes a few houses on adjacent streets. Most of these houses are uniformly set back from the street, even though there was no zoning requiring that at the time, and are of brick and/or wood construction. They are stylistically heterogeneous, with Queen Anne and the Colonial Revival predominating.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Ontario Apartments are an historic apartment complex located at 25-31 and 37-41 Ontario Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The apartments were designed by Page & Page, and built in 1925 and 1927 by Harry Soren in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. The apartments consist of two three-story, flat-roofed, wood-framed buildings. The building at 25-31 Ontario Street was built in 1925, and forms a U-shape. 37-41 Ontario Street is to the west, is identical in detail but configured differently.</p><br>
<p>These buildings are "well-preserved examples of early twentieth-century apartment buildings and are typical of... apartment buildings in middle-class neighborhoods during the 1910s and 1920s." They were designed to appeal to wealthier tenants who did not want to care for single-family dwellings. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Our Lady of Lourdes Church Complex is an historic Roman Catholic church complex at 901–903 Atwells Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island within the Diocese of Providence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Our Lady of Lourdes consists of four buildings: a church, rectory, school, and convent. The church is a steel-frame structure clad in brick, designed by Ambrose Murphy and built in 1925. The rectory is a two-story brick structure with hip roof; it was built in 1912. The original rectory, built in 1905 to a design by Walter Fontaine, was converted for use as a convent when the new rectory was built. The school building, also built in 1905 to a Fontaine design, is the largest structure in the complex, and originally served as both school and church until the student population grew too large for the educational facilities.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Parkis–Comstock Historic District is a residential historic district in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It includes all of the properties on Parkis Avenue and a number of properties on the western end of Comstock Street and Harvard Avenue, just across Broad Street from Parkis. The houses are set on relatively uniform large lots, generally set close to the street, and represent a fine collection of Late Victorian upper-class housing. Most of the houses were built between the 1860s and the 1910s. The first house to be built on Parkis Avenue was the c. 1869 Louis Comstock House at number 47; it has fine Second Empire styling, with corner quoining and a bracketed mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and expanded slightly in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Oriental Mills are a historic textile mill complex at 10 Admiral Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The site consists of seven buildings, constructed between about 1860 and 1917, by a variety of textile manufacturers that operated on the site. The oldest building, from c. 1860, was built by the Oriental Mills Manufacturing Company soon after its founding. It is a large three-story brick structure, presenting eight bays to Admiral Street and thirty to Whipple Street. It has a well-defined Italianate roof line with brackets. Building 3, which lies southeast of Building 1 and fronts on Oriental Street, is from the same time period and exhibits similar styling. Originally used for the manufacture of cotton textiles, the complex was purchased in 1918 by the American Silk Spinning Company, which pioneered the blending of nylon fibers into its products here.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Pearce House is an historic house at 305 Brook Street in Providence, Rhode Island. This Early Republican house is an "archetype of domestic design of its period". It was built in 1801 at 41 George Street on Browns Main Green facing University Hall, where it enjoyed a view of Narragansett Bay. Nathaniel Pearce, a ship-master and ship-owner, purchased it circa 1780, doubled its size with a central hallway and new ornamental entrance and re-oriented to George Street in 1800. By 1888 it was owned by the Goddard family, who sold the George Street land to Brown University. Conditions of the sale required the house be either demolished or moved. John J. DeWolf bought the house and moved it to Brook Street in that year. In 1915, his nephew Halsey DeWolf, MD inherited the house and commissioned an expansion and colonial revival enhancements by his wifes cousin, architect Wallis E. Howe of Clarke & Howe. Landscape architects Searle & Searle refurbished the rear garden in the mid-1990s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Pekin Street Historic District is a residential historic district bounded by Pekin and Candace Streets, Douglas and Chalkstone Avenues in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a well-preserved densely built neighborhood of working class housing, built almost entirely between 1870 and 1910. Most of the structures are either two or three-family units, with two-families predominating among the older buildings and triple-deckers among the later ones. The buildings are generally set on narrow lots with small yards. The district&#39;s main north-south roads are Pekin and Candace Streets, which are joined by a number of cross streets.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins Buildings are a group of three historic industrial buildings located at 85 Sprague Street, 101 and 102 Westfield Street in Providence, Rhode Island. They were built between 1887 and 1892 by Charles H. Perkins, and were originally occupied by separate industrial tenants. Two of the buildings  are brick structures built in 1892 and 1890, respectively, while the 1887 mill at 101 Westfield is a wood-frame structure, a rare 19th-century survivor in the state. These buildings were consolidated into a single industrial complex in the first half of the 20th century by the Rau Fastener Company, which operated on the premises until 1994.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Pine Street Historic District is a residential historic district on the south side of Providence, Rhode Island. It extends along Pine Street between Seekell and Myrtle Streets, and includes properties east of Pine and north of Pearl Street on Friendship, Prince, Maple, and Stewart Streets. The district represents an enclave of 19th-century residential housing in an area otherwise affected by urban renewal activities.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Plain Farm House is an historic house in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a central entry flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-elliptical fan. The house was probably built in the early 19th century, based on its Federal styling, and on the opening of the nearby Norwick Pike  in 1803. At the time of its construction the area was part of Johnston, and was annexed to Providence in 1898. Once the main house of a large farm, it is now surrounded by residential development.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>West Side Diner, formerly Poirier&#39;s Diner, is a historic restaurant at 1380 Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The diner was built in 1947 by Kullman Dining Car Company, and is a typical Art Deco streamlined stainless steel structure. It is one of two surviving Kullman diners in the state.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the diner was forced off its land by redevelopment activity and placed in storage at 1467 Westminster Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The diner was moved to 1380 Westminster Street in 2011, and was reopened as the West Side Diner in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Power Street–Cooke Street Historic District is a residential historic district on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. Located east of Brown University, the area is compact area developed in the mid-to-late 19th century as a residential district, with a cross-section of architectural styles from the early 19th to the early 20th century. The district is bounded on the north by Angell Street, on the east by Governor Street, on the south by Power Street, and on the west by Hope Street. Cooke Street is the main thorough fare running through the center of the district, which is six blocks long and two wide. The district abuts the Stimson Avenue Historic District, which lies immediately to its west.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Providence Dyeing, Bleaching, Calendring Company  is an historic industrial complex located at 46,50,52,60 Valley Street and 80 Delaine Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of 18 small-to-medium-sized brick and stone structures in a parcel 4 acre in size, between Valley Street and the Woonasquatucket River. Although most of these buildings were constructed between 1900 and 1920, the oldest building in the complex is a single-story rubble stone structure which may contain elements of an 18th-century mill structure, and is known to have achieved its present form around 1837. The original water privilege for this mill site was granted to Christopher Olney in 1773 for a paper mill.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Fruit and Produce Warehouse Company Building was a historic building located at 6-64 Harris Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. The building, a large three story warehouse facility, was built in 1929 by Jenks & Ballou, architects and engineers, with modest Moderne styling. The building served from 1929 to 1998 as the major distribution center for fresh fruits and vegetables in the state of Rhode Island, and was one of the centerpieces of the provisioning warehouse district of Providence north of the city center. Several of its bays were demolished in the 1980s to make way for a highway ramp, and the building was taken over by the state in 1998 and closed. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The building was demolished in 2008 by Carpionato Properties to great controversy from local government and citizens.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Lying-In Hospital  is a historic hospital building in Providence, Rhode Island. The main building is a -story Gothic Revival structure which was designed in 1922 by Edward Stevens of Stevens and Lee and completed in 1926. It was the citys fourth hospital. To the west of this building is the Nurses Home, designed by Wallis E. Howe and completed in 1933, following the general architectural style of the first building. The hospital was the first in the state to specialize in obstetrical services and the first to offer specialized nurse training.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and now houses a rehabilitation center and a hospice center.</p><br>
<p>The Telephone Building is a historic commercial building at 112 Union Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It was built as the headquarters and exchange of the Providence Telephone Company, which occupied it from 1893 to 1917.</p><br>
<h2>Building history and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Providence Telephone Company began construction on this building in 1892, and completed it in 1893. It was originally designed by Providence architects Stone, Carpenter & Willson as a three-story building. In 1904, due to growth of the company&#39;s business, construction began on an additional two stories. These were completed in 1906. After the Providence company moved its headquarters to the new Telephone Building in 1917, it kept ownership of the Union Street building and rented it out as office space. It has now been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<p>The street level facade is limestone, with a three-part entrance bay and two smaller flanking bays. The entrance bay is partitioned by Ionic columns, and the smaller outer bays are flanked by Corinthian columns. A complex entablature of grotesquework separates the second and third floors. The fourth and fifth floors, added in 1906, are more simply treated, with a simple parapet at the top.</p><br>
<h2>Company history</h2><br>
<p>The predecessor of the Providence Telephone Company, the Providence Telephone Exchange Company, was incorporated in Connecticut in March of 1879 by Rhode Island and Connecticut investors. Later that year former Governor Henry Howard formed the Providence Telephone Exchange Association, which acquired the stock of the Connecticut investors before merging with the Telephone Exchange Company in January of 1880.</p><br>
<p>In May of 1880 Howard incorporated the Providence Telephone Company. In addition to Howard, its notable directors included businessman Francis W. Carpenter. Howard was the first president of the company. The other presidents of the company were Henry C. Cranston from 1892 until his death in 1896, Dexter B. Potter from 1896 to 1916, Philip L. Spalding from 1916 to 1919 and Matt B. Jones from 1919 to 1921. Spalding and Jones were both officers of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company of Boston, which had bought a controlling interest in the Providence company in 1915. The two companies were consolidated in 1921. Charles T. Howard, who had variously been secretary, treasurer and vice president of the Providence company since 1880, was elected a vice president of the New England company.</p><br>
<p>Despite the expansion of the Union Street building ten years earlier, by 1916 the growth of the Providence company had made the building inadequate. That year they began construction on the new Telephone Building at the corner of Washington and Greene streets, designed by Clarke & Howe. The company moved into the new building in 1917, which continues to be home to the regional office of Verizon New England.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Providence Steel and Iron Company Complex is an historic industrial complex at 27 Sims Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of five one and two-story buildings, built between 1902 and 1951 for the Providence Steel and Iron Company , whose corporate lineage begins with the Providence-based Builders Iron Foundry  in 1822. BIF purchased the land on Sims Avenue in 1902 to replace old facilities on Codding Street. PS&I was established as a subsidiary of BIF, producing both structural and ornamental steel products, and was separated from its parent by sale in 1905. PS&I continued to operate on the Sims Street property until 2003, when it was sold to Milhaus LLC for redevelopment into a non-profit industrial arts facility, The Steel Yard. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Steel Yard hosts events like the annual Iron Pour, a public performance where artists cast molten metal in a theatrical display. Other community events include the Sims Ave Festival, where locals can explore industrial arts and connect with artists. In 2013, the Steel Yard won the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal for its adaptive reuse of the property. The Steel Yard temporarily closed in 2019 for renovations which included the installation of solar panels.</p><br>
<p>The Reservoir Avenue Sewage Pumping Station is an historic wastewater pumping facility on the south side of the junction of Reservoir and Pontiac Avenues in southern Providence, Rhode Island. From the street it looks like a single-story brick structure with a hip roof, and metal doorways on its north and east elevations. This building stands atop a substantial concrete substructure, which houses a dry well and wet well. The dry well, on the eastern side, houses the pumps, while the wet well, occupies the western two-thirds of the facility. The floor of the interior includes glass blocks for viewing the facilities below, as well as metal trapdoors for accessing the pumps. Manual gate valves on the west side are used to control sewage flow through the west well. This facility is used to pump raw sewage eastward and uphill to a gravity conduit in Rutherglen Avenue. This conduit carries the sewage to the Fields Point treatment facility. The pumping station was built by the city of Providence in 1931, and is now owned by the Narragansett Bay Commission, which operates the regions wastewater treatment facilities.</p><br>
<p>The facility was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant is an historic wastewater pumping station in the Fields Point Sewage Treatment Facility on Ernest Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a rectangular hip-roofed brick and concrete structure, located adjacent to the facilitys aeration tanks, and is not readily visible from any public way. The building houses a number of large pumps in a large concrete substructure that is below grade. The facility was built in 1934–35, when the sewage treatment method was changed from a chemical process to a biological one, and is used to return biologically active sludge from the aeration tanks back into the treatment process. The pumps in the building are no longer original, having been replaced several times. The building is one of three to survive in the Fields Point area from the early decades of Providences wastewater treatment system. the others are the Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station and the Chemical Building; the Sludge Press House was demolished sometime in the last 30 years.</p><br>
<p>The pumping station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building is an historic commercial building in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, designed by York & Sawyer.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building is an eleven-story steel-frame building, faced mostly in limestone, with marble at the lowest level. It was designed by the New York City firm of York & Sawyer and built in 1917–1919. The Rhode Island Hospital Trust was a banking institution founded in 1867 to manage the financial affairs of Rhode Island Hospital, founded in 1863. Over time it grew to become a significant local commercial bank, and was acquired by Bank of Boston in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the Rhode Island School of Design purchased the building for $47 Million. The building, rechristened the Roger Mandle Building after a former president of the University, houses RISD&#39;s Fleet Library, Portfolio Cafe, and several floors of dormitory space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Rhode Island Medical Society Building is a historic commercial building in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a two-story brick Federal Revival building, designed by Clarke, Howe & Homer, and built in 1911–12. It has a five-bay main facade and a bowed south-facing bay. The main entrance is recessed under a cast-stone entryway. The Rhode Island Medical Society was founded in 1812, and is one of the oldest medical societies in the nation. The building served as their headquarters from 1912 to 2002. The building was renovated in 2010 and is now occupied by Moran Shipping Agencies Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Rhode Island Tool Company is a historic industrial property at 146-148 West River Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a 5 acre parcel located between West River Street and the channelized West River, on which stand two historic buildings. The main building of the complex is a sprawling agglomeration of attached structures, whose construction began in 1853, and whose surviving elements include six parts that predate the American Civil War. Construction of the complex was begun by the Providence Forge & Nut Company, which purchased the Providence Tool Company, and was the largest employer in Providence in the 1870s. The complex represents the best-preserved period metal-processing facility in Providence, and was the only drop-forging operation the state when it closed in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The building has been repurposed as an office and technical space. It is now called the West River Center.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Rhodes Street Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing one block of Rhodes Street in southern Providence, Rhode Island, along with the dead-end Janes and Alphonso Streets. This area has a well-preserved collection of stylish 19th century houses, built roughly between 1850 and 1895. South Providence did not see much residential development until after industry began moving into the area. These houses were built on land that was originally part of the Rhodes family farm, and were built for managers of nearby industrial facilities. Architecturally the houses represent a cross-section of styles popular in the period.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Rochambeau Library— A Community Library of Providence is an historic public library building at 708 Hope Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It was originally a single-story brick structure with limestone trim, designed by Wallis E. Howe and built in 1930. It has a symmetrical main facade, with the entrance in the center, sheltered by a porch supported by fluted Corinthian columns. The flanking bays are pavilions with gable fronts. A modern two-level addition with a glass front has been made to the north side of the building.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph and William Russell House is a historic house at 118 North Main Street in the College Hill area of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is a brick Georgian house built in 1772. Its original interior woodwork has been removed and distributed among museums around the United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1772 as the residence of brothers Joseph Russell (1732–1792) and William Russell (1739–1825). The Russell brothers were merchants and were heavily invested in trade with England and the West Indies.</p><br>
<p>Zephaniah Andrews (1761–1818) was the mason who built the house. Andrews also built the Market House and the John Brown House. The architect is not documented, but it may have been designed by Joseph Brown.</p><br>
<p>As an aide to Comte de Rochambeau in the American Revolution, François-Jean de Chastellux stayed in the house in June, 1781 as a guest of Joseph Russell during preparations to march to meet the Continental Army at Dobbs Ferry, New York.</p><br>
<p>The house was later acquired by Amos Throop (1738–1814), a physician who was founding president of the Rhode Island Medical Society in 1812. When Throop died in 1814, he left the property to Zachariah Allen (1795–1882), son of his brother-in-law, Zachariah Allen Sr. (1738–1801). Allen appears to have lived in the house until his new house was completed on Magee Street, now Bannister Street, in 1864. The house remained largely in its original condition until the 1870s. North Main Street was widened during 1871 to 1873, and at this time the house was raised up one story, with several stores inserted below.</p><br>
<p>In 1920 the house was renovated for office uses. At this time much of the interior woodwork was removed, some of which was purchased by museums: the formal northeast parlor is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, while the more informal southeast parlor is in that of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Additional woodwork was formerly in the collection of the Denver Art Museum, though it was later deaccessioned and auctioned off.</p><br>
<p>Since its 1920s renovation, space the house has been used for various purposes, including shops, offices, artist studios, galleries and apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architectural historian Antoinette Downing found that the Russell House was one of the earliest examples of high-style Georgian architecture in Providence. Many examples of Georgian and Palladian architecture had been built in and around Newport prior to 1770, but very few elsewhere in the colony. As originally built, the Russell House was three stories high and five bays wide, and was nearly a cube. It is built of brick with wood detailing. The design of the Corinthian door surround is believed to be based on Plate 36 of The Builders Complete Assistant by Batty Langley, originally published in 1736, a copy of which was then in the collection of the Providence Library. The houses exterior ornament is otherwise limited to the matching Corinthian cornice.</p><br>
<p>As mercantile fortunes grew after the Revolution, many houses of this type and size were built in Providence, including several which are larger than the Russell House. These include the John Brown House (1786, Joseph Brown) and the Nightingale–Brown House (1792, Caleb Ormsbee).</p><br>
