Tag: College Properties
26 properties
Properties related to one of the major colleges in the city — Brown University, RISD, or Johnson & Wales (so far).
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A small brick industrial building in a predominantly residential neighborhood is the remaining legacy of a large bakery conglomerate
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Twin 1875-era three-story mansard houses are decaying under ownership of Brown Univesity
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The existing BioMed center bounded by Brown, Meeting, Thayer, and Olive Streets got a $95M addition for a new Biomedical Research center
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A large former gymnasium with a large enough indoor space to support a suspended indoor quarter mile track. Demolished in 2001.
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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 hub of student and museum activity for RISD named after the late Happy Chase, an ardent preservationist of properties along Benefit Street
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An almost 100 year old apartment building turned dormitory became too downtrodden to be useful.
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A low slung jewelry manufacturing building on the edge of the Jewelry District is now the main Student Services Center for Johnson & Wales University
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A former fire station that had its façade completely replaced by 1970, and home to independent radio station WBRU
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A simple mill building with 100 years of history in use for jewelry manufacturing converted to commercial office space in the 1980s
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A former high-art-style consumer banking lobby and offices becomes a 56,000 sf art library and housing for 500 students
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A turn-of-the-century 6-story downtown commercial building that is now part of the RISD campus
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A contemporary white box sits atop a ribbon of glass and contains a flexible set of performance spaces that can be configured in multiple ways
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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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“That very Rhode Island, deliberately shabby den of loud music, cheap beer and all kinds of people”
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A modern gymnasium that borrowed some of the classically-inspired details of the building it replaced
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The first new residential facility built at RISD in 34 years offers 148 rooms to first-year students
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The first LEED-certified college residence hall in the state, part of the Rhode Island College campus
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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
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A small commercial building surrounded by parking lots razed for an 800 car parking garage for Johnson & Wales University
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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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An innovative early 70s hyperbolic paraboloid roof structure design that allowed a 130' x 325' uninterrupted interior space
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This reinforced concrete frame building was the first modern-style, large windowed design in the City
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This unassuming golden brick, pier and spandrel commercial building has been part of the Johnson & Wales campus since the mid-1960s
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A 56,000 square foot center for Brown University’s international studies students
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The Fletcher building marks the first foray into downtown Providence for RISD and its graduate students