Category: #UrbanDecay
41 properties
Properties that are languishing — either waiting for redevelopment plans or waiting for the wrecking ball.
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
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
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
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
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
- Demolition Alert
Added three 1999 and older images of this building, one photo of a portion under construction
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
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…
This gothic revival wood frame house has been languishing since the 1990s as developers have come and gone
- Demolition Alert
Added links about the small chance that a private owner may save the stadium
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
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 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
A more than 150 year old mansion has been empty and derelict for the past 30 years, waiting for plans to repurpose it
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.
A former power substation along the train tracks has most recently been an after-hours nightclub but has now been vacant since 2018
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