Decade built: 1870-1879

19 properties

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  • A lovely split-square dual residence at the beginning of Atwells Avenue, razed in 2014 for a speculative development that has not come to pass

    Federal Hill | Built: 1871 | Demolition: 2014

  • A long-standing and intact example of mill architecture from the late 1800s, available as studio and commercial space

    Olneyville/Valley | Built: 1871–1899

  • A visually-arresting former carriage house and stable behind one of Broadway’s most ornate mansions

    West Side | Built: 1875

  • Twin 1875-era three-story mansard houses are decaying under ownership of Brown Univesity

    College Hill | Built: circa 1875

  • Slow and steady wins this race — vacated in 1964, some of the buildings were in use as early as 1988, but only 30 years later has the entire complex been redeveloped

    Smith Hill | Built: 1872–1941

  • Two distinctive buildings joined together as downtown residential lofts — both with unique features, design, and spaces

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1870 | 1925

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1871-1873 | Demolition: 1925

  • 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”

    East Providence, RI | Built: 1872 | Demolition: 1977

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

    Riverside | Built: 1864–1874

  • A rare apartment row house with interconnected interior spaces and original details gets a facelift and modern new addition

    West Side | Built: 1878, 1925

  • This chalet-style 19th century Stone & Carpenter design was reivigorated in 2002 with new foundation and additional connecting buildings to expand Brown’s Hillel Center

    College Hill | Built: 1878

  • A fire-damaged former church used for many years as a furniture storage facility recently turned into 15 residential units

    West Side | Built: 1873

  • 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

    College Hill | Built: 1877

  • A small flatiron-style 19th century mill building right on the bank of the Moshassuck River in a formerly dense industrial area

    Charles | Built: 1871–1876

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

    Charles | Then: 1971 | Now: 2020

  • A large, late 19th-century mill complex razed for the relocation of I-195 in the mid-2000s. The complex was eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

    South Providence | Built: 1873 | Demolition: 2004

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

    East Providence, RI | Built: 1873, 1888, 1961

  • A 400,000+ sq. ft. series of mill buildings dating from 1870 and converted to residential units after suffering a devastating fire that leveled half the complex

    Pawtucket, RI | Built: 1847–1870 | Demolition: partial 2010

  • A quaint small cottage is delicately saved by a considerate addition and rebuild while the large lot was subdivided to support monster new construction

    College Hill | Built: 1875-1895