The Modern Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island is one of two known surviv...
The diner was manufactured in 1940 by the John B. Judkins Company of Merrimac, Massachusetts, and originally placed elsewhere in Pawtucket. It operated at that site until 1984, when it was moved to its present ... More
Sheltered footbridge at the 435-acre Roger Williams Park in Providence...
The park is named for Williams, a theologian and Puritan minister who founded Britain's Rhode Island Colony. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsm... More
A swan glides across Polo Lake at the 435-acre Roger Williams Park in ...
The park is named for Williams, a theologian and Puritan minister who founded Britain's Rhode Island Colony. Perhaps ironically, human-made pontoon pleasure crafts called "swan boats" that look a lot like this ... More
A Navy sailor or U.S. Marine, one of six marble statues representing d...
Created in Rome, Italy, by sculptor Giorgio Constanzo, they are made of Italian Carrera marble, each standing on a red-onyx pedestal. The statues commemorate the end of World War II and those who served this co... More
Friday night crowd at the outdoor cafes in Providence, Rhode Island's,...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-3) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More
Providence Union Station, Exchange Terrace, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: The station complex was built as part of a massive redesign of the transportation facilities in Providence. The structures remain as monuments to the role they played in the regional rail transpo... More
Albion Bridge, School Street, Spanning Blackstone River, Cumberland, P...
Survey number: HAER RI-21 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jun 1892. 15 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pascoag, Providence County, Rhode Isla...
Jun 1891. 5 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabi... More
Albion Bridge, School Street, Spanning Blackstone River, Cumberland, P...
Survey number: HAER RI-21 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, East Windsor Road south of State Route 101...
Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 is significant because it is a representative example of NIKE batteries in New England and in Rhode Island. PR-79 is an intact, physical manifestation of Ame... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jun 1892. 15 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jul 1898. 25 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Albion Bridge, School Street, Spanning Blackstone River, Cumberland, P...
Survey number: HAER RI-21 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jun 1892. 15 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jul 1898. 25 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jul 1898. 25 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... 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
Providence College, George M. Bradley House, 189 Eaton Street, Provide...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Provisions Warehouse Historic District, Kinsley & Harris Avenues, Prov...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Provisions Warehouse Historic District, Kinsley & Harris Avenues, Prov...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Union Station Viaduct, Spanning Gaspee, Francis, Promenade & Canal Str...
Significance: In the late 19th century the city of Providence began filling in its tidal basin and undertook construction of a new Union Station Complex. A viaduct, utilizing a series of box-girder bridges, wa... 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
Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Boi...
Significance: As the power source for three steam engines which in turn powered sewage pumps, this structure was one of three integral elements in the Ernest Street sewage pumping station built in 1895-6 to con... More
Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More
Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI
Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Clinton Mill is typical of the large stone cotton textile mills of Rhode I... More
The Milk Can, Louisquisset Turnpike, Route 146, Saylesville, Kent Coun...
Significance: The Milk Can is significant for its exemplification of aspects of early twentieth-century commercial and transportation history. It is a characteristic example of a distinctive and fast-disappear... More
Zachariah Carpenter House, 20 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: Built about the end of the eighteenth century, this house is somewhat smaller than its neighbors from the same period being four bays wide rather than five, but it preserves many characteristic de... More
Kenyon Village, Kenyon School Road, Sherman Avenue, & Lewiston Avenue,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cranston Street Armory, Cranston Street, Providence, Providence County...
Significance: General William Walker garnered used his connections from high commission during the Civil War and active interest in military affairs to great effect in garnering four large armories for Rhode Is... More
Cranston Street Armory, Cranston Street, Providence, Providence County...
Significance: General William Walker garnered used his connections from high commission during the Civil War and active interest in military affairs to great effect in garnering four large armories for Rhode Is... More
William Wilkinson House, 69 College Street, Providence, Providence Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24 Survey number: HABS RI-24 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1954 Demolished
Ashton Viaduct, State Route 116 (Washington Highway) spanning Blacksto...
Significance: The Ashton Viaduct is one of the State of Rhode Island's largest engineering projects. It is a fine example of open spandrel design and, as the northern terminus of the Washington Highway, an imp... More
Rhode Island State House, 90 Smith Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Armour & Company Building, 100 Harris Avenue, Providence, Providence C...
Significance: Constructed in 1943, during the final phase of development for the Provisions Warehouse Historic District, the Armour & Company Building is the only contributing building in the district that was ... More
Armour & Company Building, 100 Harris Avenue, Providence, Providence C...
Significance: Constructed in 1943, during the final phase of development for the Provisions Warehouse Historic District, the Armour & Company Building is the only contributing building in the district that was ... 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
Woonasquatucket River Bridge, State Route 104 (Farnum Pike), spanning ...
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
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
Jeremiah Dexter House, 957 North Main Street, Providence, Providence C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6 Survey number: HABS RI-5 Building/structure dates: 1754 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000046
Eliza Ward House, 2 George Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Significance: This is a large, brick house, built soon after 1814, with very elegant interiors. Survey number: HABS RI-207 Building/structure dates: after 1814 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More
Elder Ballou Meetinghouse, Ballou Meetinghouse Road & West Wrentham Ro...
Significance: In 1940 when the building was assessed by the HABS district officer, Philip Creer, the (Six Principle Baptist Congregation) meeting house was described as having a frame structure with a pitched r... More
Court Street Bridge, Court Street spanning Blackstone River & Truman D...
Significance: The Court Street Bridge is a rare example of a late 19th century steel deck truss. The bridge embodies the following distinctive characteristics of the period: Pratt design, fabrication by an ind... More
Fleur De Lys Studio, 7 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Fleur de Lys Studio, in Providence, Rhode Island was built in 1885. Designed by Sydney Burleigh, an artist and Edmund Wilson, a Beaux Arts trained archit... 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
Merchants Cold Storage Warehouse, 160 Kingsley Avenue, Providence, Pro...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Francis W. Goddard House, 71 George Street, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: This is one of the larger houses in this area, built for a member of a prominent Providence family, and an example of the houses on College Hill in the 1870s. Survey number: HABS RI-194 Building... More
Edward Dexter House, 72 Waterman Street (moved from George Street), Pr...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS RI-15 Building/structure dates: 1798 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1860 Subsequent Work National Registe... More
John Reynolds House, 81 Power Street (moved from 31 Benevolent Street)...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
First Baptist Meetinghouse, 75 North Main Street, Providence, Providen...
Significance: This is the third meeting house of the first Baptist church in America, founded in 1638 by Roger Williams. The present building, a well-known architectural monument, was built in 1774-1775, and d... More
NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Launch Area, East Windsor Road south of St...
Significance: The Foster NIKI Missile Battery PR-79 Launch Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that missiles were assembled, armed and readied for launching, imp... More
Music for the Saturday night square dances in Clayville, Rhode Island,...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Christmas trees for sale at the market. Providence, Rhode Island
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Music for the Saturday night square dances in Clayville, Rhode Island,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Men leaving the Browne and Sharpe Manufacturing Company in Providence,...
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
At a Saturday night square dance in Clayville, Rhode Island
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Children getting out of school at three-thirty in Woonsocket, Rhode Is...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Houses in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sitting one out at a Saturday night square dance in Clayville, Rhode I...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
War nursery schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.This young lady's mother...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Captain Daniel Arnold House, 71 Great Road (State Route 146), North Sm...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"The Fighting Gladiator," an 1891 approximation of the Borghese Gladia...
The park is named for Williams, a theologian and Puritan minister who founded Britain's Rhode Island Colony. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsm... More
The 1902 Carrie Brown Bajnotti Memorial Fountain in Providence, the ca...
Sculpted by Enid Yandell, the fountain was a gift to the city from Count Paul Bajnotti, an Italian diplomat, in memory of his wife, Carrie Brown Bajnotti, a Providence native and grandaughter of the founder of ... More
The Providence & Worcester Railroad Station in Woonsocket, Rhode Islan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-3) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More
The Carrie Tower at Brown University, one of America's prestigious "Iv...
Carved into the 95-foot-high tower, designed by Guy Lowell, is "Love is Strong as Death." After an essential mechanism was removed, perhaps as a prank, the clock ran erratically and thereafter, its face was fi... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Candace Allen House, 12 Benevolent Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by the Providence architect John Holden Greene. This property has always been in the Allen family. Survey number: HABS RI-169 Building/structure dates: 182... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jun 1892. 15 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jul 1898. 25 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... More
Providence Union Station, Exchange Terrace, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: The station complex was built as part of a massive redesign of the transportation facilities in Providence. The structures remain as monuments to the role they played in the regional rail transpo... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jun 1892. 15 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... More
Providence Union Station, Exchange Terrace, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: The station complex was built as part of a massive redesign of the transportation facilities in Providence. The structures remain as monuments to the role they played in the regional rail transpo... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode I...
Jul 1898. 25 Sheet(s). Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liab... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Is...
1890. 38 Sheet(s). Includes Central Falls. Bound. Rhode Island fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of ... More
Blackstone Canal, Charles & Randall Streets, Canal & Haymarket Streets...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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
Richard Brown House, 587 Rochambeau Avenue, Providence, Providence Cou...
Significance: Earliest known brick house in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS RI-31 Building/structure dates: 1733 Initial Construction
Modern Diner, 13 Dexter Street, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joseph Hale House, 106 George Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Significance: This is a large brick house, built in 1806, now used as a guest house by Brown University. Survey number: HABS RI-197 Building/structure dates: 1806 Initial Construction National Register of Hi... 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
Kenyon Village, Kenyon School Road, Sherman Avenue, & Lewiston Avenue,...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Cranston Street Armory, Cranston Street, Providence, Providence County...
Significance: General William Walker garnered used his connections from high commission during the Civil War and active interest in military affairs to great effect in garnering four large armories for Rhode Is... More
William Wilkinson House, 69 College Street, Providence, Providence Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24 Survey number: HABS RI-24 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1954 Demolished
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
Rhode Island State House, 90 Smith Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Manchester Street Generating Station, Conveyors, 460 Eddy Street, Prov...
Significance: The Conveyor structures, along with the Breaker House (HAER No. RI-35-B) and the Transfer Houses (HAER No. RI-35-C) form the yard coal delivery and handling system constructed between 1940 and ca.... More