Category: #UrbanDecay

A large, dense, castle-like former brewery turned warehouse space on the edge of Olneyville and Federal Hill

An iconic department store visible from interstate 95 in Pawtucket with an uncertain future

A simple Art Deco commercial building whose fate is uncertain now that its long-term tenant has moved out

A simple, rectangular reb brick former-jewelry mill building seeing new uses in recent years

An aging complex of four buildings, three more than 150 years old, that once housed the largest stove manufacturer in New England

A local-chain tire and automotive parts outlet with four car-wide drive-through bays on a local retail corridor.

A handsome, if not crumbling, three story brick and granite five-sided commercial building at the gateway to Pawtucket’s Downtown

The façade of this simple commercial building was left open for years before finally being finished off in an unattractive manner

A pair of turn-of-the-20th century buildings in use for commercial and automobile-related businesses with one being converted into apartments

Twin 1875-era three-story mansard houses are decaying under ownership of Brown Univesity

A handsome school building in the middle of a dense neighborhood that will be closing in the spring of 2023

An elaborate four and a half story Medieval Gothic armory has been plagued by underutilization for the past 20 years

The “Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge” at Crook Point was abandoned in 1976 but once carried Providence, East Providence, Warren, & Bristol train lines

A worsted yarn mill under the same ownership for 60 to 80 years has been home to small businesses and a plastics company for at least the last 20

A purpose-built nursing home that closed within six years due to mismanagement, croneyism, and nepitisim

A wonderful Beaux-Arts fire station on the east side of Providence that has been vacant since 2017

A three-hundred year old house with a varied history, a little mystery, and larger questions about what is worth preserving.

A 50 year old family entertainment complex on a busy strip mall section of Route 6 survived fads but could not survive the pandemic

A collection of images from three different coastal military defense structures: Fort Wetherill, Beavertail, and Horseneck Beach

An enormous granite, brick, and steel early 19th-century military fortification guarding the entrance to Narragansett Bay

Two buildings, one still extant and the other recently demolished, in a fruit and produce warehouse portion of Valley Street

A former Providence Journal distribution center that was previously a milk processing plant is becomming a graffiti playground

Three underutilized commercial buildings have been considered one since the 1930s and may face the wrecking ball

A decaying former banking hall with high cielings and an interior stained-glass lit dome shrouded in copper

A complex with two remaining late-19th century brick mill buildings remaining, though newer additions and layers of paint obscure them

A small, narrow two-story tower once used to switch trains between tracks has been sitting vacant and deteriorating for almost 40 years

A once bustling retail destination and hang out. Now, a dead mall? Not quite yet…

A campus of eight builidngs constructed over the course of 80 years and encompassing styles from Romanesque to Spanish Colonial to Brutalism

This fine example of roadside architecture is slowly decaying along Route 146 in North Smithfield

A beaux-arts beauty of a train station decays twenty-one feet over the tracks on the city line between Pawtucket and Central Falls

An art deco jewel along the Blackstone River is decaying from water infiltration and exorbitant repair costs

A fire on Christmas morning gutted the building, but the Masonic Lodge members plan to rebuild, and you can help.

A newer complex of brick structures built up and around an almost 200-year old stone mill

A late 1920s Tudoresque fire station on the East Side of Providence is seeking ideas for reuse

Once the center of an ambitious waterfront redevelopment project, the building is now underutilized

This former automobile service and repair shop is crumbling just outside of Olneyville Square

A sliver of an 1829 structure survives under this turn-of-the-20th-century vaudeville theatre turned movie house turned commercial storefronts

A former catholic school has been vacant since 2009 while plans to create new residences have yet to happen

RISD-graduate Sheperd Fairey has pasted and painted his art over many decaying (and not-decaying) Providence buildings

A long-standing family-run business survived for 93 years before succumbing to low-reimbursements and major pharma companies preferences for chain store control

A narrow 3-story building built as infill when rail lines were removed in the Provisions Warehouse District. Most recently a set of nightclubs.

A truck showroom turned office for the State’s Board of Elections has one redevelopment plan rejected as it waits for new ideas

Could the newest owner of this long neglected building finally turn it back into the jewel it used to be?

A former power substation along the train tracks has most recently been an after-hours nightclub but has now been vacant since 2018

A former trolley car barn along the busy thoroughfare of Broad Street has been reduced twice to a much smaller industrial space on the corner of Thurbers and Prairie

A turn-of-the-20th-century former funeral home will be demolished for a new apartment building on the edge of Wayland Square

A large complex of mill buildings spread out over three city blocks is only partially intact and undergoing revitalization in different forms

A circa 1900 collection of mill buildings are still in use as manufacturing, small business space, and studios even though the building itself needs maintenance