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A Then & Now pair with more than 80 years between them
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A quick redevelopment of two historic homes in an eroding historic district under pressure to provide “modern” student housing
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A project that did not gain develepment approval will not go forward, but the demolition of these three houses will
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A commercial space and apartment house best known for its colorful aquatic mural on a busy corner in Fox Point
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A simple Art Deco commercial building whose fate is uncertain now that its long-term tenant has moved out
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This narrow, small footprint a hundred fifty year-old house had a prominent African-American artist as a resident for about 20 years
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A narrow home that was once owned by antique collectors and caretakers of the Bannister House next door
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A pair of turn-of-the-20th century buildings in use for commercial and automobile-related businesses with one being converted into apartments
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Two late-19th century houses are to be torn down in favor of a five-story mixed-use residential and commercial building in the College Hill Historic District
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Twin 1875-era three-story mansard houses are decaying under ownership of Brown Univesity
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A handsome school building in the middle of a dense neighborhood that will be closing in the spring of 2023
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The Red Bridge name has been used with four different bridges connecting Providence and East Providence, but this is the one that “Used To Be There”
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A slowly built-up set of factory buildings that decayed for more than a decade before being razed for… a flower farm
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Pinnacles have mountains underneath them; Mountains nurtured, fed, and supported by the compost of intentional or unintentional community
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A large, sprawling glass manufacture complex and large employer in Central Falls, closed its doors in 2014
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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
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Providence got a wake-up call when opponents sounded off against a proposal to turn Eagle Square into a strip mall. A look at the rhetoric and reality of nurturing the arts
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A non-descript location captured 45 years ago with an evolution that deserved to be recaptured
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A unique view of the edge of the Jewelry District where it meets Downtown Providence
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A former fire station that had its façade completely replaced by 1970, and home to independent radio station WBRU
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A 100+ year old former fire house was demolished in order to command a high price for redevelopment on a busy street
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This converted hotel has been restored to much of its former glory, without those great vertical decorative signs
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An emblem and pin manufacturer with a long life as industrial/
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A narrow but deep building had its modern refacing removed to reveal an original set of brickwork ornamentation. Now being used as office space
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A small one-story industrial building has been home to a design studio for about 50 years but is now awaiting a new owner
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This gothic revival wood frame house has been languishing since the 1990s as developers have come and gone
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An over 170-year-old congregation has served the needs of people in the center of Downtown Providence from a 120-year-old church building
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Demolition Alert
Home to the Pawtucket Red Sox for fifty years but with a total history of 83 years
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Demolition Alert
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
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An almost 100-year old business in an even older building was hastily razed in 2021
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A mid-century, pre-Brutalist retail amenity in downtown was razed only to avoid maintenance costs
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A newer complex of brick structures built up and around an almost 200-year old stone mill
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A two-story industrial building used mainly as a nightclub in recent years flies under the radar in the Jewelry District — a hotbed of new development
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An empty and derelict 150 year old mansion lost a fight to find a savior and new purpose
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This former stable is a remnant of a larger house that was razed in the 1940s and now stands as a handsome private home
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One of the oldest mill structures in Olneyville, this building housed a collection of 60 artists who were forced out in 2004
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A six-story, square plan apartment building adding density to the Jewelry District
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Demolition Alert
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
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A six-story pile of setbacks and surface changes along the Moshassuck River, Amtrack train corridor, and the State House
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Twenty-eight properties have been demolished in the past 10 years within these four blocks.
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Converting industrial buildings into housing threatens to eliminate a surprisingly robust source of jobs and small businesses.
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A former power substation along the train tracks has most recently been an after-hours nightclub but has now been vacant since 2018
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A new three story, boxy and flat modern apartment building on an important historic East Side corner
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A large complex of mill buildings spread out over three city blocks is only partially intact and undergoing revitalization in different forms
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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
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The vitality of Providence’s artistic underground is weakened by the demise of Olneyville’s fabled music scene
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Demolition Alert
Two buildings on a prominent corner of Wickenden Street face demolition in favor of a five-story 62 unit apartment building
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Additional apartments have been added to a busy street corner but at the cost of a neighborhood institution
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A former screw and fastener manufacturer that has been revitalized as a cooperative craft brewing collective
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A quaint small cottage is delicately saved by a considerate addition and rebuild while the large lot was subdivided to support monster new construction