List: David Brussat’s 10 Best Lost Buildings
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Mr. Brussart’s lists the most significant architectural losses Providence has endured, either by progress, entropy, or tragedy. From a Providence Journal article in 2014 Source
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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 neo-Georgian building that was home to the original home to the Providence National Bank Company. Razed for a proposed hotel that was never built.
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This 60 year-old Art Deco structure was vacated in 2000 for new digs across the highway. It stayed vacant for 6 years until a proposed condo structure took it down.
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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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This mid-1800s structure was one the few examples of Providence’s eminent architect Thomas Tefft but burned in 2006.
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A masterpiece of the Italian Romanesque style designed by a young newcomer who would later become an architecture star in his relatively short life