Decade built: 1910-1919

Two massive five-story, brick, pier-and-spandrel warehouses along the waterfront once used for storing cargo. Vacant for 15+ years before demolition from 2013-2015.

A pair of turn-of-the-20th century buildings in use for commercial and automobile-related businesses with one being converted into apartments

Once a circa 1920s car garage, most recently this was a commercial block home to Bagel Gourmet and East Side Mini-Mart, two Brown-University-student staples

This former hotel has sat vacant and underused for 20 years or more and only recently is being renovated

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

A handsome single story early 20th-century storefront tastfully converted to a local bakery and coffee shop

A simple building located next to the former Sportsman’s Inn (now the Dean Hotel) that was razed for a never-built hotel.

This 3-story flatiron 1920s commercial building was vacant for more than 20 years

A quietly operational General Electric light bulb plant for over 70 years until a swift demolition after 20 years of neglect

An unassuming former ice cream factory on a busy road through a residential neighborhood

A mid-sized 4-story mill of red brick and stucco in the middle of a residential neighborhood became apartments in 2009

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

A handsome, turn-of-the century commercial investment property that continues to be a notable downtown office building and landmark due to its unique mural

A former high-art-style consumer banking lobby and offices becomes a 56,000 sf art library and housing for 500 students

A forgotten building on the industrial edge of the north side may be getting a new life

A lovely little pub that we never had to pleasure of visiting. Construction on a 3 mile sewer project damaged the foundations beyond repair

A stately former hospital turned religious education center will become fourteen apartments along Blackstone Boulevard

A cute, manageable, three-story mill building on the outskirts of Smith Hill surrounded by car yards

A campus of eight builidngs constructed over the course of 80 years and encompassing styles from Romanesque to Spanish Colonial to Brutalism

A handsome yellow brick, seven story building with ornate white brickwork designs has become a dozen luxury residences with ground-floor retail

A beaux-arts beauty of a train station decays twenty-one feet over the tracks on the city line between Pawtucket and Central Falls

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

This former automobile service and repair shop is crumbling just outside of Olneyville Square

A huge, castle-looking 400 foot long stone rubble mill with two impressive towers joined to a more modern red brick mill on either side of a historically hard-working river

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

A very interesting weave shed building, flooded with natural light, becomes artist live/work studio lofts

A massive 58,000 sf former electricity generating station went through three different redevelopment projects over 20 years before finally being completed

This reinforced concrete frame building was the first modern-style, large windowed design in the City

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

Three tightly-packed buildings with histories in weaving and threading have turned residential and are thriving in post-industrial Central Falls

A former power substation along the train tracks has most recently been an after-hours nightclub but has now been vacant since 2018

A relatively low-slung and simple early 20th century former car repair garage in a residential portion off Broadway