Decade built: 1900-1909
25 properties
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A part of the Provisions District met the wrecking ball in 2011. Owner of this and nearby buildings, The Providence Journal Company, used deferred maintenance as an excuse.
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The story of two central fire stations located on the perimeter of Exchange Place, now Kennedy Plaza.
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The “Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge” at Crook Point was abandoned in 1976 but once carried Providence, East Providence, Warren, & Bristol train lines
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The spooky former “School for the Feeble-minded” which decayed for 20 years before being slowly razed building by building.
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In use for almost 70 years, the East Side Train tunnel burrows beneath College Hill and once connected Union Station to East Providence
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A low-slung, 2-story mill with numerous large windows sat vacant for years before it succumbed to a fire
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This historic wooden structure over the Providence River withstood the Hurricane of 1938 but not a lighting strike on January 12, 2011
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The littlest building in downtown (not including parking lot shelters) that was once home to small coffee shops.
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A long fight over the demolition of a former neighborhood school — and a contributing structure to the Broadway-Armory Historic District.
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What was left of the former lumber yard along Harris Ave. was replaced with new office space in 2009
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The iconic “HOPE” sign rose off the roof of a mill building as you drove north on 95 until a fire devastated it in 2004.
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A turn-of-the-century 6-story downtown commercial building that is now part of the RISD campus
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A nine-story commercial building turned residential and joined the ranks of its neightbors in the collective called “Westminster Lofts”
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One of the first condominium mill conversions in Pawtucket, taking full advantage of the picturesque Blackstone river
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Vacant since 1987, this building stood on the West Side across from Central High School for over 20 years before being completely razed to the ground.
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An irregulary shaped two-story former jewelry mill turned into a small-business studio and residence
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A late 90s/early 2000s conversion of a small mill with new addition on North Main Street into luxury condos
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A massive private home designed by important turn-of-the-century minds had as colorful a history as it had decorative stone details.
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A sliver of an 1829 structure survives under this turn-of-the-20th-century vaudeville theatre turned movie house turned commercial storefronts
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A huge turn-of-the-century brick barn for trolleys that was later used by the Narragansett Brewing Company for storage & distribution.
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America’s first designed and purpose-built amusement park was open for only 5 years.
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Old aerials of Providence taken from different vantage points and at different times in its development.
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A large parcel of land on the edge of the jewelry district whose 1- and 2-story buildings were razed by speculation but nothing yet occupies the site.
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A former steel and wire manufacturing facilty along the waterfront in East Providence shut down in 1994 and was razed 10 years later
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A small, five-story commercial building that underwent a modern renovation into 12 apartments on a busy downtown street