Date Added: 2024

A small brick industrial building in a predominantly residential neighborhood is the remaining legacy of a large bakery conglomerate

An almost 10-acre property on the corner of routes 2 and 102 in North Kingstown are soon to become 22 apartment buildings

A corner of great change, from prominant residential neighborhood to gritty industrial center and back again

An almost two-century old building which has been in constant use for military-related purposes

A beautiful Second-Empire style, iron storefront, six-story commercial building on the edge of Exchange Place until a fire destroyed it in 1925

Since its acquisition in 1902, this mid-19th-century church has been studio and student activity space adjacent to the RISD Museum

A more than century old ornate schoolhouse has been converted to fourteen apartments as part of the nearby Slater Cotton development

A handsomely-detailed yellow brick commercial building with an active bar on the first floor and currently empty upper floors

A former church mission turned into a series of unsavory businesses establishments until a 30 year old law allowing indoor prostitution was rewritten

A former schoolhouse that has been constantly in use by the Girl Scouts of America, East Providence Troops

A set of builings to support beachgoers deemed unfit and unsafe due to repeated ocean storms that have been increasing in intensity

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

A very early fire station was repurposed as commercial space and a twin building was built next door

A late 18th-century inn in the heart of Colonial Providence’s political seat

Photos captured a late 1700s grand hotel’s last days in 1941

A state-of-the-art grenhouse, specializing in leafy greens and basil, opened in 2019 on the site of a former industrial plant

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

A simple mill building with 100 years of history in use for jewelry manufacturing converted to commercial office space in the 1980s

A four story former mill on the south side of Providence that has been under the radar as large industrial-style studio and living spaces

This four hundred foot long mill had a big part to play in the industrial revolution as home to the inventor James Brown

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

A contemporary white box sits atop a ribbon of glass and contains a flexible set of performance spaces that can be configured in multiple ways

A small house gifted to Brown University was razed in favor of expanding the Life Sciences Building along Meeting St

A new four-story apartment building with commercial space replaces a century-old 2 1/2 story gable roof house

“That very Rhode Island, deliberately shabby den of loud music, cheap beer and all kinds of people”

A modern gymnasium that borrowed some of the classically-inspired details of the building it replaced

The first new residential facility built at RISD in 34 years offers 148 rooms to first-year students

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

Six new apartments in a trendy-styled contemporary building sited on a once vacant lot overlooking a historically significant part of the city

This freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America and one of the few only surviving structures of its architect Thomas A. Tefft

A tiny former boiler house becomes a popular bar with a large cultural impact on Providence’s waterfront

Parcel 3 of 25: A brand-new Level 3 health laboratory will upgrade the state's health crisis reponse and research capabilities

A new building takes advantage of a small space to introduce additional density in an already dense edge of downtown and the Jewelry District

Two mid-to-late-century buildings will be demolished for a new Brown University science lab, connected and in proximity to other biotech and science-related facilities

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

A small colonial house along Meeting St with ties to the Civil War’s “Colored” infantry and African American’s fight for equal education rights in the state

An almost 200 year old brick house has seen many changes, from home of a three term Providence Mayor to an industrial business

An early-19th-century mill complex remained industrial for 100 years now has an uncertain future as industry continues to leave the state (and country)

A comparison of the iconic sawtooth weave shed of the Slater Dye Works over 35 years

An old house gets a renovation and a nearby addition for a total of five new “luxury” condominium units

A charming flat-iron style building on Charles Street, built circa 1874, changed drastically in the past 50 years

A drive-up news stand on the “Pawtucket Downtown Loop” that survived for almost 40 years

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

Parcel 9: A new five-story, 127-unit development breaks ground with phase 1 in 2023

A 30-year-vacant 19th-century schoolhouse gets a new life as residential apartments

Thirty “workforce’-priced apartment units in a three-story podium building occupying long vacant space on the West Side

A low set of one-story buildings built into a hill along Valley Street have been razed for… something, we’re not sure

A new five-story apartment building set on two adjoined lots on the edge of the Thayer Street shopping district

An over 200 year old house avoids demolition, but very little of its original interior remains

A non-descript one story building in the jewelry district was once a job training program for impoverished women