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  • Demolition Alert

    Updated 20 October, 2024: Added post-fire photos of the former warehouse. Partial demolition of a 195%+ building will occur.

    West Side | Built: circa 1890 | Demolition: partial in late 2024

  • Demolition Alert

    Added 28 August, 2024: A beautifully detailed late 19th-century double house will succumb to the wrecking ball in favor of more of the same modern apartment building design

    College Hill | Built: 1877

  • Demolition Alert

    Added 30 December, 2023: A rare “Collegiate Gothic”-style high school faces potential demolition as educators and the public struggle with the complex emotions surrounding a quality public education

    North Providence | Built: 1938

  • Demolition Alert

    Added 16 September, 2023: Two buildings on a prominent corner of Wickenden Street face demolition in favor of a five-story 62 unit apartment building

    Fox Point/India Point | Built: Between 1985 and 1989 | Demolition: 2023

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  • This anecdote reminds me of the situation with the old Waverly Bridge in central Missouri. That bridge, which carried US 65 across the Missouri River, was also scary to cross. Needless to say, when the old bridge was replaced and demolished, many people did not miss it.
    Joel Bader on Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (the old one)
  • As a RISD student in the 50’s, I remember walking up to Toy Sun’s, Thayer St., East Side of Providence for a delicious late night snack/study break… a chow mein sandwich… on a hamburger roll! Invented in Fall River, btw. The price was right, too!
    Joanne Egan Shea on Chinese Restaurants of the Past
  • In response to Leslie Richards, Pauline Fay Lazarus was my aunt, my fathe’s sister. Woodrow’inds Modern Age was a happy part of my childhood.
    Pamela Stacey Lazarus on Lilly Building
  • In 1957 I had a summer job working in the woolen tubular jersey drying room of the factory. It was very uncomfortable working in a hot, humid room with floating lint and smelling of lanolin while sitting on a stool in front of a wire drying rack that was mounted over a hole in...
    David Carp on Lebanon Mill Company
  • Since i was young child I had dreams of this walkway. Every now and then it would repeat. I didn’t know where it was until I recently saw a picture on the Internet. So now I’m reading all this fascinating information. I was born in 1953 so there is no way my dream could be a m...
    Therese Loranger on Vanity Fair Amusement Park
  • I was hired to sing and play guitar with a friend of mine at the Providence Goff’s back in 2000 and 2001. It was a great spot. Also played and sang at the Bristol location around 2003-2005. Great times!
    Tom C. on James C. Goff Company Office Building
  • I pop into your sight from time to time when I’m in a nostalgic mood. In the mood today 😬. I brought a league there back in 80s. We used to bowl at Seekonk Lanes but when they were bought out and demolished it to build a Pet Boys we had nowhere to go and it was only a month or...
    Greg Motta on Down Under Duckpin Bowling
  • When the Nelson Fitness Center was built, I wrote about architecture for the Providence Journal. I learned that Jonathan Nelson ‘77 (an entrepreneur and Rhode Island’s only billionaire at the time) had refused to give money for the fitness center as designed by SHoP Architects...
    David Brussat on Nelson Fitness Center, Brown University