List: College Hill Historic District
30 properties
National Register 70000019, submitted 1970 (finalized by 1976) — The College Hill Historic District is significant as the site of the original settlement of Providence Plantations in 1636. The district embodies several crucial stages of American social development with a progression of architectural styles and intact historic neighborhoods to reveal the physical growth of Providence from a Colonial town to a modern city.
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This turn-of-the-century Federal-style two-story wooden house-turned-resturant was razed quickly on Good Friday in 2021
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A quick redevelopment of two historic homes in an eroding historic district under pressure to provide “modern” student housing
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A project that did not gain develepment approval will not go forward, but the demolition of these three houses will
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A commercial space and apartment house best known for its colorful aquatic mural on a busy corner in Fox Point
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This narrow, small footprint a hundred fifty year-old house had a prominent African-American artist as a resident for about 20 years
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An almost two-century old building which has been in constant use for military-related purposes
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About half of the “Mile of History,” documenting the western side of Benefit Street as it looked in 2004
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A narrow home that was once owned by antique collectors and caretakers of the Bannister House next door
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Nine homes on a block off Thayer Street were demolished ot make way for a large bulk of student apartments
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Eight houses allowed to decay as student housing and easily demolished because of a lack of visual maintenance
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Two late-19th century houses are to be torn down in favor of a five-story mixed-use residential and commercial building in the College Hill Historic District
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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
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Twin 1875-era three-story mansard houses are decaying under ownership of Brown Univesity
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A 250+ year old home belonging to one of the captain’s that took part in the burning of the Gaspee
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Since its acquisition in 1902, this mid-19th-century church has been studio and student activity space adjacent to the RISD Museum
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A popular restaurant since 1973 in a unique red brick building that was an early horse-drawn apparatus Fire Station
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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
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A late 18th-century inn in the heart of Colonial Providence’s political seat
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This 300-ton house was rotated and moved 450 feet up Olive Street in one piece over the course of three days
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A small house gifted to Brown University was razed in favor of expanding the Life Sciences Building along Meeting St
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One the last remaining historic homes on the Thayer to Brook Street block demolished for a new structure
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A 1980s conversion from industrial to residential condominiums by the same developer of the Davol Rubber Company
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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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This former stable is a remnant of a larger house that was razed in the 1940s and now stands as a handsome private home
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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
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A small colonial house along Meeting St with ties to the Civil War’s “Colored” infantry and African American’s fight for equal education rights in the state
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The ever changing face of Thayer Street captured whenever we can (mostly from 2004 and 2020)
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Another erosion of the neighborhood fabric, moving from wood-built houses to slick “modern concept” commercial structures
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An over 200 year old house avoids demolition, but very little of its original interior remains
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A quaint small cottage is delicately saved by a considerate addition and rebuild while the large lot was subdivided to support monster new construction