Tag: The Library of Congress

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

Originally located along N. Main & Canal Sts., across from Roger Williams Park, Providence, the last meat-packing plant survived for about 50 years

A photo from 1982 is updated in 2005, before additional new buildings rise up, and then again in 2024

The story of two central fire stations located on the perimeter of Exchange Place, now Kennedy Plaza.

One of the oldest industrial buildings in the state with a rich history that continues to this day

A low-slung, semi-circular mid-century modern transportation hub in downtown Providence.

In use for almost 70 years, the East Side Train tunnel burrows beneath College Hill and once connected Union Station to East Providence

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

Photos captured a late 1700s grand hotel’s last days in 1941

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

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

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

This freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America and one of the few only surviving structures of its architect Thomas A. Tefft

A previous naval repair facility employing about 12,000 military personnel eventually turned into an industrial park once the Navy left

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

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

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

Smaller than its neighbors, this 2-story commercial building joined the ranks of its neightbors in the collective called “Westminster Lofts”