Neighborhood: East Side, Providence
14 properties
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A former clothing store built off the north side of Sears that stayed empty for years and years before being razed in 2009.
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A local-chain tire and automotive parts outlet with four car-wide drive-through bays on a local retail corridor.
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A large former gymnasium with a large enough indoor space to support a suspended indoor quarter mile track. Demolished in 2001.
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A neighborhood battle and a prolonged redevelopment took down Clark’s to replace it with mixed-use residential and commercial space
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In use for almost 70 years, the East Side Train tunnel burrows beneath College Hill and once connected Union Station to East Providence
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This cinder block building with a residential looking store facade slapped on it stood vacant for many years before demolition. Part of the way commercial retail comes and goes.
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A sweet little post-Art Deco brick gas station in the middle of the Hope Street commercial district. Probably contaminated and hard to subdivide, so it came down.
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A rather small commercial storefront that was a branch bank for some time but abandoned for many years before eventual demolition.
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A plethora of pithy postcard images from the turn of the century.
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This property is actually a tale of three things — competitive cycling, a football stadium, and the Providence Steamroller
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A big hulking 5300-person capacity civic auditorium that hosted sports and entertainment for close to 50 years.
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A boarded-up retail space along a retail corridor in need of rethinking.
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One of the last big box stores on North Main Street, closed since the mid-to-late 90s. Demolished in 2014 to become infill for a parking lot.
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An innovative early 70s hyperbolic paraboloid roof structure design that allowed a 130' x 325' uninterrupted interior space for the Brown University pool