Tag: The Superlatives
24 properties
The first, the largest, the oldest…
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At the turn of the 20th century, the largest screw manufacturer in the country
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This mill was once the largest lace producer in the country
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By the late 1880s, its production of worsted and cotton-wrap fabric was the largest in Providence, employing over 2000 workers
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The first permanent, multistory office building in the United States made entirely from shipping containers
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, Brown & Sharpe was one of the best-known and most influential machine tool builders and was a leading manufacturer of instruments for machinists
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The first department store of its magnitude in Providence established in 1866 — the building would later be replaced in 1873
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At the turn of the 20th century, the largest metal-working foundries in the world
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In 1894, this was the first direct investment by a British manufacturer in the United States
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After 1925, the largest laundry business in RI with 150 employees and 16 outlets throughout the state
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City directories listed the company as the largest receivers of roofing materials in New England
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The largest cold storage plant in New England outside of Boston with nearly 3 million cubic feet of storage by 1910
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By 1915, the largest lager beer brewery in New England
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At one time, the largest consumer of wool in the United States
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The first LEED-certified college residence hall in the state
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The African Masonic Lodge was the first institution, other than the Black church, that organized on behalf of African Americans in the United States
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With a capacity of 13,000 spectators, it was the largest bicycle track in the country during the 1920s
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During the mid-1870s it was the largest single employer in Providence and an important American rifle manufacturer
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Under the ownership of B.B. and R. Knight, part of the largest textile manufacturers in the world
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Screen number one is 60 by 120 feet, the largest in RI
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Built as a church, the building later housed the first private normal school in Providence
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This power plant once boasted the largest steam engine in the world, weighing more than 500 tons
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In 1883 this was the first mill in Rhode Island to be lit by electricity
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Under the leadership of Eugene Phillips, it became the largest steel and copper wire manufacturer in the world.