Tag: Yellow brick

19 properties

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

    East Side | Built: circa 1930

  • A pair of turn-of-the-20th century buildings in use for commercial and automobile-related businesses with one being converted into apartments

    West Side | Built: Between 1908 and 1920

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

    College Hill | Built: circa 1929 | Demolition: 2011

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

    Jewelry District | Built: 1929, 1947

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

    West Side | Built: 1897–1907

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

    Downtown Providence | Demolition: 2018

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1890, 1917

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1897, 1911

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

    East Side | Demolition: 2009

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1915, 1916

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1829, 1902, 1950s

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

    Jewelry District | Built: 1923-1925 | Demolition: 2012

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

    East Side | Built: Between 1962 & 1972 | Demolition: 2007

  • 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.

    East Side | Built: circa 1948 | Demolition: 2014

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

    Jewelry District | Built: 1926

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

    South Providence | Built: 1910–1911

  • 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.

    Jewelry District | Built: 1901–1956 | Demolition: 2012, 2021

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

    East Side | Built: 1960–1961 | Demolition: 2025

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

    Downtown Providence | Built: 1895-1903