Neighborhood: Jewelry District, Providence

A handsome two-story former wharf warehouse along Dyer street, backing up to the Providence River, used as a electric substation for about 100 years

Parcel 22 lot 2: A new 6 and 5 story boutique-brand hotel on the edge of the Jewelry District with views of the riverfront

A corner of great change, from prominant residential neighborhood to gritty industrial center and back again

A proposed 12-story modular building comprised of individual apartments pre-built and stacked in place was designed but never built

A mid-century brick indistrial building on the edge of the Jewelry District is given new life as part of Johnson & Wales University

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

A low slung jewelry manufacturing building on the edge of the Jewelry District is now the main Student Services Center for Johnson & Wales University

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

A unique view of the edge of the Jewelry District where it meets Downtown Providence

Parcel 28: A new, dense, trapezoidal residential building with ground-floor retail on the edge of the Jewelry District

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

A simple mill building with 100 years of history in use for jewelry manufacturing converted to commercial office space in the 1980s

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

Parcel 31: A brand-new Johnson & Wales facility and the first project to break ground where I-195 used to be

A small one-story industrial building has been home to a design studio for about 50 years but is now awaiting a new owner

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

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

A simple and relatively small yet handsome three-story building has stood on this corner for 100 years.

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

An unassuming rehabilitation of a simple mid-century industrial space into a modern office

Parcel 22 lot 1: A hub of scientific and academic innovation and one of the first projects to break ground in the newly available I-195 District

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

A simple mid-century industrial building used for jewelry industry purposes over the past 50 years razed in 2011 for speculative purposes

Parcel 3 of 25: A brand-new Level 3 health laboratory will upgrade the state's health crisis reponse and research capabilities

Two mid-to-late-century buildings will be demolished for a new Brown University science lab, connected and in proximity to other biotech and science-related facilities

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

A six-story, square plan apartment building adding density to the Jewelry District

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

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

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

This unassuming golden brick, pier and spandrel commercial building has been part of the Johnson & Wales campus since the mid-1960s

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 large parcel of land on the edge of the jewelry district whose 1- and 2-story buildings were razed by speculation but nothing yet occupies the site.

Brown University builds a +300,000 square foot life sciences laboratory in the center of the Jewelry District

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