List: Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Historic District
10 properties
National Register 85003088, submitted 1985 — Nominated as a historic district in 1985 when industry had been leaving the area and new uses were being considered. While many of the buildings have been rehabilitated for residential, commercial, or educational use, the future of the district was very much uncertain when it was being researched and documented. Full document from the RIHPHC (pdf)
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A corner of great change, from prominant residential neighborhood to gritty industrial center and back again
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Once the largest manufacturer of costume jewelry, this building was vacant in the 80s but then revived by Lifespan as their corporate headquarters
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An emblem and pin manufacturer with a long life as industrial/
commercial space until a conversion to apartments -
This handsome trapezoidal mill building with chamfered corner in the Jewelry District was converted to lofts in 2004.
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This former jewelry manufacturing building was converted to office use in the late 1970s and is now the Brown Medical School
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A stone mill formerly used as a machine parts manufacturer and now commercial office space
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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
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An almost 200 year old brick house has seen many changes, from home of a three term Providence Mayor to an industrial business
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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
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A non-descript one story building in the jewelry district was once a job training program for impoverished women