List: National Register of Historic Places

A square, seven story commercial building converted to apartments in the early aughts — a frontrunner to the downtown residential boom

This turn-of-the-century Federal-style two-story wooden house-turned-resturant was razed quickly on Good Friday in 2021

A large, dense, castle-like former brewery turned warehouse space on the edge of Olneyville and Federal Hill

A collection of six brick buildings with a complicated history, series of owners, and name

An amazingly dense complex of mill structures dating from the mid-1800s and in use for over 100 years before succumbing to two large fires in the midst of plans to redevelop

A quick redevelopment of two historic homes in an eroding historic district under pressure to provide “modern” student housing

A project that did not gain develepment approval will not go forward, but the demolition of these three houses will

A commercial space and apartment house best known for its colorful aquatic mural on a busy corner in Fox Point

Built circa 1915, these concrete coal storage towers were demolished in late 2002 by oversight — a permit was granted despite their protection by inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

A series of late 19th and early 20th century mill buildings converted to residential during the boom of the mid-2000s

This narrow, small footprint a hundred fifty year-old house had a prominent African-American artist as a resident for about 20 years

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

An almost two-century old building which has been in constant use for military-related purposes

About half of the “Mile of History,” documenting the western side of Benefit Street as it looked in 2004

A narrow home that was once owned by antique collectors and caretakers of the Bannister House next door

A handsome, if not crumbling, three story brick and granite five-sided commercial building at the gateway to Pawtucket’s Downtown

Nine homes on a block off Thayer Street were demolished ot make way for a large bulk of student apartments

Eight houses allowed to decay as student housing and easily demolished because of a lack of visual maintenance

A fine example of turn-of-the-19th-century hydroelectric power generation situated below Pawtucket Falls along the Blackstone River

The façade of this simple commercial building was left open for years before finally being finished off in an unattractive manner

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

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

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

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

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

A former department store turned rock club venue turned loft apartments whose conversion contributed to making Downtown Providence bustle again

A late 19th-century mill building used originally as a machine shop but largely as a cording manufacturer that converted to residential in 2004

A handsome school building in the middle of a dense neighborhood that will be closing in the spring of 2023

A four-turned-five-story 19th-century commercial building goes residential to support 44 micro-lofts and a younger clientele

Since its acquisition in 1902, this mid-19th-century church has been studio and student activity space adjacent to the RISD Museum

Worcester Lunch Car #806 has had a long life and many names but continues to attract new entrepreneurs who want to make a go of the restaurant business

A more than century old ornate schoolhouse has been converted to fourteen apartments as part of the nearby Slater Cotton development

Closed in 1981, this William R. Walker and Son-designed church was vacant for over 20 years before neglect contributed to its demise.

A handsomely-detailed yellow brick commercial building with an active bar on the first floor and currently empty upper floors

Once the largest manufacturer of costume jewelry, this building was vacant in the 80s but then revived by Lifespan as their corporate headquarters

An elaborate four and a half story Medieval Gothic armory has been plagued by underutilization for the past 20 years

During this park’s 90-year run, it entertained millions of New Englanders as well as people from all over the world.

A small stature mill building in a residential neighborhood with many uses over the years is now residential

A large 250,000 sf brick mill complex used for rubber manufacture over almost 100 years, now divided into office and retail space

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

A late ninteenth century dye house of the larger Weybosset Mills which has lately become a boutique hotel

An over 180-year-old mill structure with the Woonasquatucket river at its back and a former office building fronting Manton Avenue

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

A low-slung, 2-story mill with numerous large windows sat vacant for years before it succumbed to a fire

This historic wooden structure over the Providence River withstood the Hurricane of 1938 but not a lighting strike on January 12, 2011

A popular restaurant since 1973 in a unique red brick building that was an early horse-drawn apparatus Fire Station

A small, unassuming but nicely detailed brick firehouse from the mid-19th century on Providence’s West Side

An enormous granite, brick, and steel early 19th-century military fortification guarding the entrance to Narragansett Bay

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

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

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

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

At only 12 1/2 feet deep, the George Arnold building is an anomoly in the Downtown Historic District

A late 18th-century inn in the heart of Colonial Providence’s political seat

A sprawling complex and a leading designer of silver goods for 100 years or more. Still in business (not in RI) as part of the Lenox Corporation.

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

A long fight over the demolition of a former neighborhood school — and a contributing structure to the Broadway-Armory Historic District.

A former Providence Journal distribution center that was previously a milk processing plant is becomming a graffiti playground

An irregulary shaped former horse stable turned furniture showroom turned apartments

This huge 7-acre complex is a mixed-use, active-24/7 collection of 165 flexible business spaces and 149 mill lofts

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

A turn-of-the-century hotel with intact, 100-year old wood panelled bar enhanced by stained-glass windows and decorative terra cotta

A shingle-style public building sat underused for 20 years before being rejuvenated recently

The iconic “Superman” building, the tallest in the state, might be close to getting a new life as residential apartments

An emblem and pin manufacturer with a long life as industrial/commercial space until a conversion to apartments

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

This four hundred foot long mill had a big part to play in the industrial revolution as home to the inventor James Brown

A turn-of-the-century 6-story downtown commercial building that is now part of the RISD campus

One of the last operating woven product mills in the area, closing in 2001, and later converted to residential starting in 2007

This handsome trapezoidal mill building with chamfered corner in the Jewelry District was converted to lofts in 2004.

A nine-story commercial building turned residential and joined the ranks of its neightbors in the collective called “Westminster Lofts”

One of the first condominium mill conversions in Pawtucket, taking full advantage of the picturesque Blackstone river

Two 19th-century commercial buildings come together to create a unique hotel with historic character

A striking black and cerulean blue Art Deco first floor facade adorns this commercial building along a historically significant portion of upper Westminster Street

This 300-ton house was rotated and moved 450 feet up Olive Street in one piece over the course of three days

This former jewelry manufacturing building was converted to office use in the late 1970s and is now the Brown Medical School

This gothic revival wood frame house has been languishing since the 1990s as developers have come and gone

A large two- and three-story mill complex bordered by Conant, Pine, Barton, and Weeden Streets

A small house gifted to Brown University was razed in favor of expanding the Life Sciences Building along Meeting St

Parcel 14: This Neo—Classical Revival structure stood unfinished for 80 years before finally getting a new life as a hotel in 2004.

A five-story red brick former Freemasons hall in very good historic condition converted to commercial space in the 1980s

An over 170-year-old congregation has served the needs of people in the center of Downtown Providence from a 120-year-old church building

This once ornate building was simplified in the 1920s and once again in the 2000s but has always been commercial space

One the last remaining historic homes on the Thayer to Brook Street block demolished for a new structure

This fine example of roadside architecture is slowly decaying along Route 146 in North Smithfield

One of two remaining Sterling Streamliner diners manufactured in the late 1930s by the J.B. Judkins Company left in the country

This ornate former single-family home was built in stages and owned by two prominent business people that almost succumbed to the wrecking ball

A large mill complex of 13 buildings on 2 acres was converted to apartments and commercial space in 2005

A large mill complex on the West Side of Providence turns into residential lofts at the beginning of the boom

A 19th century former volunteer firehouse turned into commercial space on a busy urban corner

Before it was demolished and rebuilt, the Ocean House was one of the few surviving 1800s seaside resort hotels in RI

A classically-inspired former bank with soaring vaulted ceiling finds new life as a performing arts center

A late-nineteeth-century warehouse building with thick walls, strong floors, and details reminiscent of an armory building

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

A massive, Romanesque-revival style, granite and brick masonry building with an interior Drill Hall clearspan space of 80 by 140 feet

An art deco jewel along the Blackstone River is decaying from water infiltration and exorbitant repair costs

A six-story early Moderne former bank lobby and upper-floor offices was redeveloped in fits and starts into residential apartments

A group of turn-of-the-century mills get converted into affordable residential units and commercial/office space

A stone mill formerly used as a machine parts manufacturer and now commercial office space

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

This 70-year-old diner car sat on blocks for 10 years before being restored and reopened as a classic breakfast and lunch diner

A mill redevelopment that tried to be different than the typical luxury condos and one that change residential zoning to help make units more affordable

A long, low slung industrial building west of the highway and in the shadow of the Providence Place Mall. Neglect over ten years as well as some nefarious local dealings took the building down.

Once the center of an ambitious waterfront redevelopment project, the building is now underutilized

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.

A 1980s conversion from industrial to residential condominiums by the same developer of the Davol Rubber Company

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

A 100-year-old ornamental steel and iron manufacturer gets a new life as a center for vocational training and art creation

A two-story industrial building used mainly as a nightclub in recent years flies under the radar in the Jewelry District — a hotbed of new development

An empty and derelict 150 year old mansion lost a fight to find a savior and new purpose

A sprawling pre-Civil-War-era complex with a proud history of metal manufacturing of many kinds, including armaments

A sliver of an 1829 structure survives under this turn-of-the-20th-century vaudeville theatre turned movie house turned commercial storefronts

This former stable is a remnant of a larger house that was razed in the 1940s and now stands as a handsome private home

One of the oldest mill structures in Olneyville, this building housed a collection of 60 artists who were forced out in 2004

A small commercial building surrounded by parking lots razed for an 800 car parking garage for Johnson & Wales University

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

A former catholic school has been vacant since 2009 while plans to create new residences have yet to happen

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

An almost 200 year old brick house has seen many changes, from home of a three term Providence Mayor to an industrial business

This mid-1800s structure was one the few examples of Providence’s eminent architect Thomas Tefft but burned in 2006.

After almost 100 years involved in heavy industry, this building became home to a variety of office and retail uses

A tall, handsome mill which was a cottom weaving company for about 35 years before becomming a realty company that rented space to other businesses — now residential lofts

An early 19th-century complex with two granite stone mills in the first “Mill Village” is converted into residential apartments

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

A mid-19th century small scale commercial brick mill has been a home to various businesses and loving owners

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

A narrow and difficult to redevelop building languished on the Ten Most Endangered List for five years before getting a new life

A present-day example of early car service culture — white enamelled panels with bright green and red accents and an utilitarian design

The ever changing face of Thayer Street captured whenever we can (mostly from 2004 and 2020)

Another erosion of the neighborhood fabric, moving from wood-built houses to slick “modern concept” commercial structures

This over 190 year old structure survived 170 years as an indoor mall but now is a collection of retail and micro-loft styles residential condos

An mid-19th-century mill falters in its second life but gains a third life in the late 2010s to become residential with a boutique hotel on the same property

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

A small single-story brick commercial-industrial storefront with subtle art-deco details

A late 19th-century investment building used as commercial space for over 100 years recently turned into residential upper floors.

A 27,000 sf piece of the former US Rubber Works has been developed into the Waterfire Arts Center

This 120-year old station has see fires and rehabilitation, but the remarkably handsome structure is still standing and useful and full of tenants

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

A dense complex of 20 buildings built over the course of 50 years has ben converted from maufacturing to new-arts-industrial to residential

A collection of handsome late-19th- and early-20th-century buildings that served as headquarters for a knitted good company as well as rental space for jewelry businesses

A mini-arcade type of commercial building in a once bustling retail district turned small business and destination retail space

An ornate mill-company-built community space subdivided into offices during the last century

A recently underutilized mill building with distinctive central octoganol tower to become 225 apartments and commercial space

A large complex of mill buildings spread out over three city blocks is only partially intact and undergoing revitalization in different forms

An over 200 year old house avoids demolition, but very little of its original interior remains

A circa 1900 collection of mill buildings are still in use as manufacturing, small business space, and studios even though the building itself needs maintenance

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.

The Fletcher building marks the first foray into downtown Providence for RISD and its graduate students

A former screw and fastener manufacturer that has been revitalized as a cooperative craft brewing collective

A small, five-story commercial building that underwent a modern renovation into 12 apartments on a busy downtown street

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

A non-descript one story building in the jewelry district was once a job training program for impoverished women