Tag: Style, Art Deco

A simple Art Deco commercial building whose fate is uncertain now that its long-term tenant has moved out

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

A former industrial building converted to a Benny’s department store and then converted to a strip mall

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

A sweet little simple Art Deco brick gas station in the middle of the Hope Street commercial district. Probably contaminated and hard to subdivide, so it came down.

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

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

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

A soon-to-be-100-year-old movie theater went through a tumultous rebirth over a decade, and may now yet again be on the brink of something new

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

A highly decorative example of Art Deco municipal buildings constructed at the height of publically-funded Depression-era projects

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.

A nice, simple early 20th century building on a busy commercial corridor with some subtle Art Deco details