Butterfly Factory, Great Road, Saylesville, Kent County, RI
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Second Congregational Church, 13-17 Clarke Street, Newport, Newport Co...
Significance: The building was completed September 15, 1735. It served as barracks for British troops 1776-1779 during their occupation and as a hospital for the French while they were in Newport. The buildin... More
Captain Joseph Tillinghast House, 403 South Main Street, Providence, P...
Significance: This house, built about 1767, is the only well-preserved survival of the pre-Revolutionary period on the lower part of South Main Street in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Captain Joseph Tillinghast House, 403 South Main Street, Providence, P...
Significance: This house, built about 1767, is the only well-preserved survival of the pre-Revolutionary period on the lower part of South Main Street in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Captain Joseph Tillinghast House, 403 South Main Street, Providence, P...
Significance: This house, built about 1767, is the only well-preserved survival of the pre-Revolutionary period on the lower part of South Main Street in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Thomas Clemence House, 38 George Waterman Road, North Providence, Prov...
Photograph #19 was not digitized along with the rest of the first photo set (#1-19) because it is a duplicate of one of the measured drawings. See sheet 11 instead. Significance: This house, now restored and o... More
Thomas Clemence House, 38 George Waterman Road, North Providence, Prov...
Photograph #19 was not digitized along with the rest of the first photo set (#1-19) because it is a duplicate of one of the measured drawings. See sheet 11 instead. Significance: This house, now restored and o... More
John Dockray House, Dockray Street, Wakefield, Washington County, RI
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Edward Searle House, 107 Wilbur Avenue, Oaklawn, Providence County, RI
Significance: The original part of the house was constructed in the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century but the two-story, five-bay main block with a central chimney plan and gable roof was not built unti... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
Joanna Barnes House, 49 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This is a medium large frame house, built in 1826, typical of Providence in this period, but with some unusual details. Survey number: HABS RI-144 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Joseph Smith House, 109 Cushing Street, North Providence, Providence C...
Significance: The earliest house on the site was built before 1675. It was a stone-ender, one and one-half stories in height. Destroyed during King Philip's War, Joseph Smith used the old foundation and chimney... More
Joseph Smith House, 109 Cushing Street, North Providence, Providence C...
Significance: The earliest house on the site was built before 1675. It was a stone-ender, one and one-half stories in height. Destroyed during King Philip's War, Joseph Smith used the old foundation and chimney... More
Joseph Smith House, 109 Cushing Street, North Providence, Providence C...
Significance: The earliest house on the site was built before 1675. It was a stone-ender, one and one-half stories in height. Destroyed during King Philip's War, Joseph Smith used the old foundation and chimney... More
Market House, Market Square, Providence, Providence County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-74 Building/structure dates: 1774 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939-1940 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000001
Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Benjamin Cushing House, 38 1/2 North Court Street, Providence, Provide...
Significance: "Most of the mid-eighteenth century houses, which once stood along the west side of South Main Street and elsewhere in the then newer sections of town, are gone or dilapidated beyond repair, so th... More
Newport Steam Factory, 449 Thames Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: The Newport Steam Factory is an important surviving example of the nineteenth century industrial development of the Newport waterfront, as well as an interesting large example of early mill constr... More
Friends Meetinghouse, Great Road, Saylesville, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS RI-17 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Subsequent Work
First Congregational Church, 301 Benefit Street, Providence, Providenc...
Significance: This is a large, attractive stone church, built 1815-1816, and designed by an important Providence architect, John Holden Greene. Very few alteration have been made to the church, and the buildin... More
John N. A. Griswold House, 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County...
Significance: This is an early and key example of a major style of domestic architecture in America in the second half of the 19th century. It is characterized by open planning, irregular and picturesque massi... More
Job Greene House, West Shore Road (Hoxie), Warwick, Kent County, RI
Significance: Although no longer extant, some of the interior work was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The original one and one-half story frame house had a stone end chimney; this was folded... More
Longfield, 1200 Hope Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI
Significance: Longfield was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in May of 1972. Longfield is significant as a notable and picturesque site and house in Bristol's outskirts. It is a very good... More
James Greene House, 698 Buttonwoods Avenue, Buttonwoods, Kent County, ...
Survey number: HABS RI-270 Building/structure dates: ca. 1715 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000038
Thomas R. Holden House, 118 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: Built in 1809. This is an example of the less common brick houses on College Hill, and the earliest one standing on this part of Benefit Street. It has been remodeled at various times, and prese... More
Samuel Tilton House, 12 Sunnyside Place, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This house is an outstanding early building of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. An example of their "Shingle Style" work, it is characterized by open planning and richly textured surfaces on... More
Samuel Tilton House, 12 Sunnyside Place, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This house is an outstanding early building of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. An example of their "Shingle Style" work, it is characterized by open planning and richly textured surfaces on... More
Samuel Tilton House, 12 Sunnyside Place, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This house is an outstanding early building of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. An example of their "Shingle Style" work, it is characterized by open planning and richly textured surfaces on... More
Charles H. Baldwin House, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: The work of Potter and Robertson of New York, this is an interesting example of the Shingle Style or American version of the Queen Anne Revival. It is characterized by richly textured, decorative... More
Woonsocket Company, Number 2 Mill, 115 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...
Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: Built in 1833, the Woonsocket Company's No. 2 Mill is an unusually fine early ... More
Woonsocket Company, Number 2 Mill, 115 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...
Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: Built in 1833, the Woonsocket Company's No. 2 Mill is an unusually fine early ... More
Woonsocket Company, Number 2 Mill, 115 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...
Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: Built in 1833, the Woonsocket Company's No. 2 Mill is an unusually fine early ... More
Grist Mill, State Route 3, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-376 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Samuel Westcott House, 240 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: Demolished in 1936, the doorway was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-25 Building/structure dat... More
Samuel Westcott House, 240 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: Demolished in 1936, the doorway was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-25 Building/structure dat... More
Samuel Westcott House, 240 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: Demolished in 1936, the doorway was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-25 Building/structure dat... More
Providence & Worcester Railroad Station, 1 Depot Square, Woonsocket, P...
Significance: This building is the third railroad station on the site and its most notable feature is the "light- weight curved and chamfered wooden brackets that arch well beyond the walls in a series of spoke... More
Providence & Worcester Railroad Station, 1 Depot Square, Woonsocket, P...
Significance: This building is the third railroad station on the site and its most notable feature is the "light- weight curved and chamfered wooden brackets that arch well beyond the walls in a series of spoke... More
Providence & Worcester Railroad Station, 1 Depot Square, Woonsocket, P...
Significance: This building is the third railroad station on the site and its most notable feature is the "light- weight curved and chamfered wooden brackets that arch well beyond the walls in a series of spoke... More
General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...
Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More
General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...
Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More
Nathan Mason House, 33 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Significance: This frame house, built in the 1840s, is representative of the Greek Revival influence on Providence houses. Survey number: HABS RI-182 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction
William G. Low House, 3 Low Lane, Bristol, Bristol County, RI
Significance: Built with respect to Bristol's long tradition of using wood construction in its architecture, the William G. Low House is a key example of the Shingle-style. The house was a massive, low gable in... More
William G. Low House, 3 Low Lane, Bristol, Bristol County, RI
Significance: Built with respect to Bristol's long tradition of using wood construction in its architecture, the William G. Low House is a key example of the Shingle-style. The house was a massive, low gable in... More
Valentine Whitman, Jr. House, Great Road & Meetinghouse Road, Lime Roc...
Significance: The district officer for HABS described the building as having a fine framework with chamfering; an end chimney made of stone with a brick top; and a four-room, two deep floor plan. The authors of... More
Valentine Whitman, Jr. House, Great Road & Meetinghouse Road, Lime Roc...
Significance: The district officer for HABS described the building as having a fine framework with chamfering; an end chimney made of stone with a brick top; and a four-room, two deep floor plan. The authors of... More
Valentine Whitman, Jr. House, Great Road & Meetinghouse Road, Lime Roc...
Significance: The district officer for HABS described the building as having a fine framework with chamfering; an end chimney made of stone with a brick top; and a four-room, two deep floor plan. The authors of... More
12 Croade Street (House), Warren, Bristol County, RI
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Cyrus Ellis House, 31 John Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pidge Tavern, 586 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
Significance: Built in the early eighteenth century, the four-room house was expanded around 1767. The mid century improvements included a six-bay facade and pedimented doorway. The building became a tavern in ... More
Joseph Reynolds House, Forge Road, Kingston, Washington County, RI
Significance: Traditionally said to have been constructed in the 1680s, and certainly by the time of the 1713 property transfer, the building has been added onto several times. A dining room and kitchen were ad... More
Joseph Reynolds House, Forge Road, Kingston, Washington County, RI
Significance: Traditionally said to have been constructed in the 1680s, and certainly by the time of the 1713 property transfer, the building has been added onto several times. A dining room and kitchen were ad... More
Amos Allen House, 62 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This is a medium sized, well-preserved house from the late eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS RI-148 Building/structure dates: 1773- 1798 Initial Construction
Bliss-Ruisden House, 606 Main Street, Warren, Bristol County, RI
Significance: The Federal-period house has lovely woodwork inside, including the wainscoting, scrollwork on the stringer, and crossetted surround in the parlor, but the exterior is noted for its Colonial Reviv... More
Thomas Fenner House, 1538 Plainfield Street, Thornton, Providence Coun...
Significance: The Thomas Fenner House is an example of a Rhode Island frame house with the stone of the chimney exposed at one end (i.e., the stone ender). Survey number: HABS RI-72 Building/structure dates: ... More
Immanuel Case House, 41 Main Street, Wickford, Washington County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-3-13 Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction
Immanuel Case House, 41 Main Street, Wickford, Washington County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-3-13 Building/structure dates: 1785 Initial Construction
Trinity Church, 141 Spring Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: Built in 1725-1726, to replace an earlier structure, Trinity Church served the congregation organized in 1698 by Francis Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor of New York and later Governor of Virginia a... More
General Nathanael Greene House, Greene Street, Anthony, Coventry, Kent...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Palmer Northrup House, 7919 Post Road (U.S. Route Alternate 1), Kingst...
Significance: Traditionally associated with Roger Williams, that is, it has been said to be his house of 1643, this house is representative of mid seventeenth-century dwellings found in Rhode Island. At that ti... More
Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, 17 Broadway, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: The dwelling was constructed by Stephen Mumford, a minister, but it is better known for its eighteenth-century occupants including Colonial Governor Richard Ward and Tory pamphleteer Martin Howard... More
Clement Weaver House, 125 Howland Road, East Greenwich, Kent County, R...
Significance: The Clement Weaver House is one of Rhode Island's seventeenth-century treasures, with a construction history that began in 1679. Originally it was a one-room, end-chimney house type with a lean-to... More
Clement Weaver House, 125 Howland Road, East Greenwich, Kent County, R...
Significance: The Clement Weaver House is one of Rhode Island's seventeenth-century treasures, with a construction history that began in 1679. Originally it was a one-room, end-chimney house type with a lean-to... More
Clement Weaver House, 125 Howland Road, East Greenwich, Kent County, R...
Significance: The Clement Weaver House is one of Rhode Island's seventeenth-century treasures, with a construction history that began in 1679. Originally it was a one-room, end-chimney house type with a lean-to... More
Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...
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Samuel Gorton, Jr. House, 777 Love Lane, East Greenwich, Kent County, ...
Significance: At the core of this late seventeenth-century, stone-ender house is a pilastered, stone chimney. The house was expanded several times giving it a somewhat rambling feel today. Of note inside are th... More
Benjamin Arnold House, Entrance "A" Road to Lincoln Woods Reservation,...
Significance: The five-bay, two-story frame house is no longer extant. Survey number: HABS RI-86 Building/structure dates: 1743 Initial Construction
Robert Purkis House, 37 Charles Field Street, Providence, Providence C...
Significance: This is a typical example of a medium-sized wood house, with very few alterations, built about 1823. Survey number: HABS RI-202 Building/structure dates: ca. 1823 Initial Construction Building/... More
Captain Joseph Tillinghast House, 403 South Main Street, Providence, P...
Significance: This house, built about 1767, is the only well-preserved survival of the pre-Revolutionary period on the lower part of South Main Street in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for ... More
Nathan Seamans House, 15 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence County,...
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Edward Searle House, 107 Wilbur Avenue, Oaklawn, Providence County, RI
Significance: The original part of the house was constructed in the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century but the two-story, five-bay main block with a central chimney plan and gable roof was not built unti... More
Edward Searle House, 107 Wilbur Avenue, Oaklawn, Providence County, RI
Significance: The original part of the house was constructed in the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century but the two-story, five-bay main block with a central chimney plan and gable roof was not built unti... More
Jabez Gorham House, 56 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County, ...
Significance: This is a typical wooden house of the 1790s built for Jabez Gorham, the father of the founder of Gorham Silver Company. Survey number: HABS RI-146 Building/structure dates: after 1790 Initial Co... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
College Hill, Bounded roughly by Olney, Hope, Governor Streets, & Seek...
Significance: College Hill is significant at the national level as a well preserved collection of historic residential, commercial, educational, and religious buildings dating from the early eighteenth century ... More
Joseph Brown House, 50 South Main Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This house is one of the designs of the amateur architect, Joseph Brown. Built originally as Brown's own house, the building was later used for over a century as the office of the Providence Bank... More
Solomon Carpenter House, 144 South Road, Kingston, Washington County, ...
Survey number: HABS RI-61 Building/structure dates: 1705 Initial Construction
Isaac Bowen, Jr. House, 312 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: This is a medium-sized frame house with brick end walls, characteristic of the early 19th century. Survey number: HABS RI-161 Building/structure dates: ca. 1805 Initial Construction
Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More
Friends Meetinghouse, Great Road, Saylesville, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS RI-17 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Subsequent Work
Friends Meetinghouse, Great Road, Saylesville, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS RI-17 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Subsequent Work
Friends Meetinghouse, Great Road, Saylesville, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS RI-17 Building/structure dates: 1703 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Subsequent Work
First Congregational Church, 301 Benefit Street, Providence, Providenc...
Significance: This is a large, attractive stone church, built 1815-1816, and designed by an important Providence architect, John Holden Greene. Very few alteration have been made to the church, and the buildin... More
First Congregational Church, 301 Benefit Street, Providence, Providenc...
Significance: This is a large, attractive stone church, built 1815-1816, and designed by an important Providence architect, John Holden Greene. Very few alteration have been made to the church, and the buildin... More
Job Greene House, West Shore Road (Hoxie), Warwick, Kent County, RI
Significance: Although no longer extant, some of the interior work was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The original one and one-half story frame house had a stone end chimney; this was folded... More
George Champlin Mason House, 31 Old Beach Road, Newport, Newport Count...
Significance: This Swiss-style chalet was the personal residence of the Newport architect, George Champlin Mason (1820-1894). The exterior and interior illustrate Mason's interest in the revival of architectur... More
Longfield, 1200 Hope Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI
Significance: Longfield was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in May of 1972. Longfield is significant as a notable and picturesque site and house in Bristol's outskirts. It is a very good... More
Isaac P. White House, 66 Ayrault Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This is a very well-preserved example of a kind of house commonly used in its period in this section of Newport. Built between 1871 and 1874, it is a two-and-a-half-story frame structure with a h... More
Isaac P. White House, 66 Ayrault Street, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This is a very well-preserved example of a kind of house commonly used in its period in this section of Newport. Built between 1871 and 1874, it is a two-and-a-half-story frame structure with a h... More
Samuel Tilton House, 12 Sunnyside Place, Newport, Newport County, RI
Significance: This house is an outstanding early building of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. An example of their "Shingle Style" work, it is characterized by open planning and richly textured surfaces on... More
Warren-Bache House, 86 State Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI
Significance: 86 State Street was designed by well known regional architect Russell Warren in 1807. Warren lived in the house from 1814 until 1823. This residence as interpreted by Warren is an example of the... More
Grist Mill, State Route 3, East Greenwich, Kent County, RI
Survey number: HABS RI-376 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stephen Hopkins House, 12 Hopkins Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: Stephen Hopkins, Governor of Rhode Island, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Chancellor of Brown University, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Indepen... More
Samuel Westcott House, 240 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: Demolished in 1936, the doorway was moved to the Rhode Island School of Design. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-25 Building/structure dat... More
General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...
Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More