Category: #UrbanDecay
28 properties
Properties that are languishing — either waiting for redevelopment plans or waiting for the wrecking ball.
An iconic department store visible from interstate 95 in Pawtucket with an uncertain future
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
This former hotel has sat vacant and underused for 20 years or more and only recently is being renovated
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
In use for almost 70 years, the East Side Train tunnel burrows beneath College Hill and once connected Union Station to East Providence
A wonderful Beaux-Arts fire station on the east side of Providence that has been vacant since 2017
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
A decaying former banking hall with high cielings and an interior stained-glass lit dome shrouded in copper
The iconic “Superman” building, the tallest in the state, might be close to getting a new life as residential apartments
A forgotten building on the industrial edge of the north side may be getting a new life
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
One of the most profitable race tracks in American history had a 44 year run
A beaux-arts beauty of a train station decays twenty-one feet over the tracks on the city line between Pawtucket and Central Falls
A small but charming red square building in various states of repair and neglect over the years
A fire on Christmas morning gutted the building, but the Masonic Lodge members plan to rebuild, and you can help.
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
A sliver of an 1829 structure survives under this turn-of-the-20th-century vaudeville theatre turned movie house turned commercial storefronts
RISD-graduate Sheperd Fairey has pasted and painted his art over many decaying (and not-decaying) Providence buildings
A narrow 3-story building built as infill when rail lines were removed in the Provisions Warehouse District. Most recently a set of nightclubs.