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A small brick industrial building in a predominantly residential neighborhood is the remaining legacy of a large bakery conglomerate
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An almost 10-acre property on the corner of routes 2 and 102 in North Kingstown are soon to become 22 apartment buildings
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A corner of great change, from prominant residential neighborhood to gritty industrial center and back again
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An almost two-century old building which has been in constant use for military-related purposes
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A beautiful Second-Empire style, iron storefront, six-story commercial building on the edge of Exchange Place until a fire destroyed it in 1925
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A more than century old ornate schoolhouse has been converted to fourteen apartments as part of the nearby Slater Cotton development
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A handsomely-detailed yellow brick commercial building with an active bar on the first floor and currently empty upper floors
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A former church mission turned into a series of unsavory businesses establishments until a 30 year old law allowing indoor prostitution was rewritten
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A former schoolhouse that has been constantly in use by the Girl Scouts of America, East Providence Troops
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A set of builings to support beachgoers deemed unfit and unsafe due to repeated ocean storms that have been increasing in intensity
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A purpose-built nursing home that closed within six years due to mismanagement, croneyism, and nepitisim
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A very early fire station was repurposed as commercial space and a twin building was built next door
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A late 18th-century inn in the heart of Colonial Providence’s political seat
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Photos captured a late 1700s grand hotel’s last days in 1941
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A state-of-the-art grenhouse, specializing in leafy greens and basil, opened in 2019 on the site of a former industrial plant
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Three underutilized commercial buildings have been considered one since the 1930s and may face the wrecking ball
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The two types of Historic Districts are very different, and in Providence, while 28% of the City is documented on the National Register, only 7% has the protections that Local Historic Districts can offer.
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A simple mill building with 100 years of history in use for jewelry manufacturing converted to commercial office space in the 1980s
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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
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This four hundred foot long mill had a big part to play in the industrial revolution as home to the inventor James Brown
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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
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A new four-story apartment building with commercial space replaces a century-old 2 1/2 story gable roof house
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“That very Rhode Island, deliberately shabby den of loud music, cheap beer and all kinds of people”
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A modern gymnasium that borrowed some of the classically-inspired details of the building it replaced
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The first new residential facility built at RISD in 34 years offers 148 rooms to first-year students
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An art deco jewel along the Blackstone River is decaying from water infiltration and exorbitant repair costs
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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
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A tiny former boiler house becomes a popular bar with a large cultural impact on Providence’s waterfront
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The evolution of Downtown Providence and Capital Center from a brand-name retail point of view
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A brand-new Level 3 health laboratory will upgrade the state's health crisis reponse and research capabilities
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A new building takes advantage of a small space to introduce additional density in an already dense edge of downtown and the Jewelry District
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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
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A former catholic school has been vacant since 2009 while plans to create new residences have yet to happen
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An almost 200 year old brick house has seen many changes, from home of a three term Providence Mayor to an industrial business
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A recent spate of demolition and development has people questioning what the City is doing to preserve its historic assets.
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An old house gets a renovation and a nearby addition for a total of five new “luxury” condominium units
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A charming flat-iron style building on Charles Street, built circa 1874, changed drastically in the past 50 years
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A drive-up news stand on the “Pawtucket Downtown Loop” that survived for almost 40 years
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A new five-story, 127-unit development breaks ground with phase 1 in 2023
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A 30-year-vacant 19th-century schoolhouse gets a new life as residential apartments
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A low set of one-story buildings built into a hill along Valley Street have been razed for… something, we’re not sure
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A new five-story apartment building set on two adjoined lots on the edge of the Thayer Street shopping district
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A non-descript one story building in the jewelry district was once a job training program for impoverished women