Category: #NotInRuins
32 properties
Properties that have been redeveloped or have never slipped into decay — success stories, diligent owners, and “good bones.”
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A long-standing and intact example of mill architecture from the late 1800s, available as studio and commercial space
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A late 19th-century mill building used originally as a machine shop but largely as a cording manufacturer that converted to residential in 2004
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An over 180-year-old mill structure with the Woonasquatucket river at its back and a former office building fronting Manton Avenue
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A relatively simple carriage house down the hill from Benefit Street featuring unique architectural details and construction
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A small, unassuming but nicely detailed brick firehouse from the mid-19th century on Providence’s West Side
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Falling into disrepair since the 1970s, this once important community center found new use and continues to support the neighborhood and Providence schoolchildren
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This 3-story flatiron 1920s commercial building was vacant for more than 20 years
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A mid-century modern complex built in the late 60s/early 70s for Bulova Watch and then occupied by General Electric for about 20 years.
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At only 12 1/2 feet deep, the George Arnold building is an anomoly in the Downtown Historic District
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A mid-sized 4-story mill of red brick and stucco in the middle of a residential neighborhood became apartments in 2009
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A turn-of-the-century 6-story downtown commercial building that is now part of the RISD campus
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This handsome trapezoidal mill building with chamfered corner in the Jewelry District was converted to lofts in 2004.
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One of the first condominium mill conversions in Pawtucket, taking full advantage of the picturesque Blackstone river
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This Neo—Classical Revival structure stood unfinished for 80 years before finally getting a new life as a hotel in 2004.
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A large mill complex of 13 buildings on 2 acres was converted to apartments and commercial space in 2005
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A group of turn-of-the-century mills get converted into affordable residential units and commercial/office space
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A late 90s/early 2000s conversion of a small mill with new addition on North Main Street into luxury condos
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An unassuming rehabilitation of a simple mid-century industrial space into a modern office
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This 70-year-old diner car sat on blocks for 10 years before being restored and reopened as a classic breakfast and lunch diner
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A sprawling pre-Civil-War-era complex with a proud history of metal manufacturing of many kinds, including armaments
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A huge, castle-looking 400 foot long stone rubble mill with two impressive towers joined to a more modern red brick mill on either side of a historically hard-working river
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Lucky for all of us, the Rustic has so far outlasted 13 other drive-ins that operated in Rhode Island since the 1960s
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A 60-year history slinging good, hearty diner food evaporated into a cyclone of legal battles. The diner itself is still unrestored.
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A tall, handsome mill which was a cottom weaving company for about 35 years before becomming a realty company that rented space to other businesses — now residential lofts
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A collection of Victorian Gothic cottages and a stone chapel turned into a shopping center with character.
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A massive 58,000 sf former electricity generating station went through three different redevelopment projects over 20 years before finally being completed
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A present-day example of early car service culture — white enamelled panels with bright green and red accents and an utilitarian design
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4-story new construction marries a 2-story Greek Revival 150 years younger at the base of College Hill
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A 400,000+ sq. ft. series of mill buildings dating from 1870 and converted to residential units after suffering a devastating fire that leveled half the complex
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An ornate mill-company-built community space subdivided into offices during the last century
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A recently underutilized mill building with distinctive central octoganol tower to become 225 apartments and commercial space
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The Fletcher building marks the first foray into downtown Providence for RISD and its graduate students