Tag: Yellow brick

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

An almost 100 year old apartment building turned dormitory became too downtrodden to be useful.

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

An elaborate four and a half story Medieval Gothic armory has been plagued by underutilization for the past 20 years

The littlest building in downtown (not including parking lot shelters) that was once home to small coffee shops.

An almost 100-year old Greek Revival style school building is being razed for a new pre-K through 8th grade building

A turn-of-the-century hotel with intact, 100-year old wood panelled bar enhanced by stained-glass windows and decorative terra cotta

The 100-year old center of the original Miriam campus will be replaced by a modern wing and updated Emergency Center

Two 19th-century commercial buildings come together to create a unique hotel with historic character

A former nightclub and commercial building is converted to 6 residences with ground-floor retail

A rather small commercial storefront that was a branch bank for some time but abandoned for many years before eventual demolition.

A handsome yellow brick, seven story building with ornate white brickwork designs has become a dozen luxury residences with ground-floor retail

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

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

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

A large stately building has been converted to 11 apartments as a mix of modern finishes with historic details

A mid-century building in an older style is converted from a former rectory to residential apartments

A boarded-up retail space along a retail corridor in need of rethinking

One of the last big box stores on North Main Street, closed since the mid-to-late 90s. Demolished in 2014 to become infill for a parking lot.

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

Could the newest owner of this long neglected building finally turn it back into the jewel it used to be?

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.

A two-unit commercial strip once home to a 100-year-old bakery business is razed in Wayland Square

The Fletcher building marks the first foray into downtown Providence for RISD and its graduate students