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
Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI
Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... More
Plante Grist Mill, U.S. Route 44, Chepachet, Providence County, RI
Significance: The Plante Grist Mill is a typical example of owner built mill structures that could be found all over New England during the mid-19th century. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this str... 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
Granite Block, 6-18 Market Square, Providence, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS RI-30 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939 Demolished
Granite Block, 6-18 Market Square, Providence, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS RI-30 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939 Demolished
Granite Block, 6-18 Market Square, Providence, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS RI-30 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939 Demolished
Granite Block, 6-18 Market Square, Providence, Providence County, RI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Survey number: HABS RI-30 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1939 Demolished
Eleazer Whipple House, Great Road, Lime Rock, Providence County, RI
Significance: The small house, a Rhode Island "stone ender" became an inn known as Mowry Tavern. It was expanded linearly in the nineteenth century, and a front porch was added. Survey number: HABS RI-95 Bui... More
Blackstone Canal, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
Significance: The Blackstone canal was one of the region's first long distance transportation systems. It was one of the waterways that helped to spawn the industrial development that took place in the Blackst... 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
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
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
Adelaide Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, Adelaide Avenue over New Haven Rail...
Significance: Erected in 1903, the Adelaide Avenue Pedestrian Bridge is significant for its association with the Gorham Manufacturing Company, a large ornamental metal manufacturer. This former employee footbr... More
Thornton Homestead, Atwood Avenue & Memorial Avenue, North Providence,...
Survey number: HABS RI-80 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Eng...
Significance: The Ernest Street Pumping Station Engine House was the principal structure within the three-building complex constructed in 1895-6 to pump sewage directly to Providence's Fields Point Plant for tr... More
Governor Elisha Brown House, 537 North Main Street, Providence, Provid...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Franklin House Hotel, 32 Market Square, Providence, Providence County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-22 Building/structure dates: 1823 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Demolished
Franklin House Hotel, 32 Market Square, Providence, Providence County,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS RI-22 Building/structure dates: 1823 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Demolished
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
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
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
Blackstone Canal, Albion, Providence County, RI
Significance: The Blackstone canal was one of the regions first long distance transportation systems. It was one of the waterways that helped to spawn the industrial development that took place in the Blacksto... More
Truman Beckwith House, 42 College Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This large brick house built in 1827-1828, is an outstanding example of the work of the architect John Holden Greene. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey numb... More
Truman Beckwith House, 42 College Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This large brick house built in 1827-1828, is an outstanding example of the work of the architect John Holden Greene. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey numb... More
St. John's Church, 271 North Main Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This church is the second building erected by the first Episcopal parish in Providence, and has been the Cathedral church of the Rhode Island Diocese since 1929. It is an important work of the Pr... More
Nathaniel Pearce House, 305 Brook Street (moved from 41 George Street)...
Significance: This is a moderate sized frame house, built early in the nineteenth century for a shipmaster and owner, typical of that period. Survey number: HABS RI-184 Building/structure dates: 1801- 1820... More
Nathaniel Pearce House, 305 Brook Street (moved from 41 George Street)...
Significance: This is a moderate sized frame house, built early in the nineteenth century for a shipmaster and owner, typical of that period. Survey number: HABS RI-184 Building/structure dates: 1801- 1820... More
George Benson House, 64 Angell Street, Providence, Providence County, ...
Significance: This dwelling was built for Captain George Benson, a prominent Providence merchant at the end of the eighteenth century. Built in 1797, this house is characteristic of the conservative, but elega... More
Merchants Cold Storage Warehouse, 160 Kingsley Avenue, Providence, Pro...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Terminal Building, 184 Kinsley Avenue & 11-25 Terminal Way, Providence...
Significance: The Terminal Building is significant for its associations with the development of the Provisions Warehouse District of Providence. It was constructed in 1917 by the Merchants' Cold Storage & Ware... More
Downtown Providence, Roughley bounded by Woonasquatucket River, Provid...
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Israel Arnold House, Great Road, Saylesville, Kent County, RI
Significance: In Lincoln Woods, on Great Road to Mendon west of Lonsdale stands the Israel Arnold House. The early part of this building, a one-room gambrel-roofed dwelling with an exposed end chimney of brick... More
Israel Arnold House, Great Road, Saylesville, Kent County, RI
Significance: In Lincoln Woods, on Great Road to Mendon west of Lonsdale stands the Israel Arnold House. The early part of this building, a one-room gambrel-roofed dwelling with an exposed end chimney of brick... More
Israel Arnold House, Great Road, Saylesville, Kent County, RI
Significance: In Lincoln Woods, on Great Road to Mendon west of Lonsdale stands the Israel Arnold House. The early part of this building, a one-room gambrel-roofed dwelling with an exposed end chimney of brick... More
Captain Stephen Olney House, 138 Smithfield Road, North Providence, Pr...
Survey number: HABS RI-77 Building/structure dates: 1805 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000004
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
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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.
Eleazer Arnold House, Great Road, Saylesville, Kent County, RI
Significance: This post-Medieval framed timber and clapboard farmhouse is a fine example of a stone-ender house, a local form of domestic structure in which the chimneys of the hall and kitchen are combined on ... More
Samuel Carlile House, 87 Williams Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This is a characteristic example of a medium-sized brick house of about 1800. It is one of an unusual series of houses built on Williams Street at this time on leased land with certain building r... More
John Jenckes House, 43 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County, ...
Significance: Built in 1774, this house is one of the few large gambrel-roofed wooden buildings left in Providence. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS RI-12 ... More
Governor James Fenner House, 41 Waterman Street, Providence, Providenc...
Survey number: HABS RI-55 Building/structure dates: 1780 Initial Construction
Wheaton & Anthony Building (First), 33-39 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, P...
Significance: A typical Italianate commercial block from the mid-nineteenth century, this building housed a number of downtown offices for textile mills in the rural hinterland. Its construction coincides with... More
George H. Corliss House, 45 Prospect Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: This is a large brick house, the home of George H. Corliss, a prominent Providence industrialist. Survey number: HABS RI-229 Building/structure dates: 1873-1883 Initial Construction
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
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 Larchar House, 282 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This house, which was designed by John Holden Greene, has always been in the Larchar family. It preserves in excellent condition two sets of Joseph Dufour wallpaper. Unprocessed Field note mater... More
John Larchar House, 282 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This house, which was designed by John Holden Greene, has always been in the Larchar family. It preserves in excellent condition two sets of Joseph Dufour wallpaper. Unprocessed Field note mater... More
John Reynolds House, 81 Power Street (moved from 31 Benevolent Street)...
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American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More
American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More
American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More
American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More
American Screw Company, Stevens Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This site represents a 19th century industrial complex that, at the time of documentation, was little altered by 20th century development. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structur... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Governor Henry Lippitt House, 199 Hope Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This large, elaborately decorated house, was built for Henry Lippett, governor of Rhode Island in 1874-1875. Survey number: HABS RI-239 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction Build... More
Providence & Worcester Railroad, Freight House, Canal Street, Providen...
Significance: The freight house was part of one of the first major railroad stations in America. It was also one of the first structures built in the Romanesque style and one of the only surviving structures o... More
Shannock Village, Main Street, North Shannock Road, & West Shannock Ro...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
William Ashton, Jr. House, 368 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This is an example of a medium-sized frame house of about 1800. It is typical of Providence in its plan and exterior detail, except for the center window on the second floor. The interior detail... More
William Ashton, Jr. House, 368 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This is an example of a medium-sized frame house of about 1800. It is typical of Providence in its plan and exterior detail, except for the center window on the second floor. The interior detail... More
William Ashton, Jr. House, 368 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This is an example of a medium-sized frame house of about 1800. It is typical of Providence in its plan and exterior detail, except for the center window on the second floor. The interior detail... More
William Ashton, Jr. House, 368 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This is an example of a medium-sized frame house of about 1800. It is typical of Providence in its plan and exterior detail, except for the center window on the second floor. The interior detail... More
Old State House, 155 North Main Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This building is one of the two eighteenth century colony houses in Rhode Island, the other being in Newport. It was one of the seats of Rhode Island government from 1762 until the erection of th... More
Old State House, 155 North Main Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This building is one of the two eighteenth century colony houses in Rhode Island, the other being in Newport. It was one of the seats of Rhode Island government from 1762 until the erection of th... More
Old State House, 155 North Main Street, Providence, Providence County,...
Significance: This building is one of the two eighteenth century colony houses in Rhode Island, the other being in Newport. It was one of the seats of Rhode Island government from 1762 until the erection of th... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...
Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More
India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...
Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph of the train tunnel, railroad, train track, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical im... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between CT & MA state lines,...
Survey number: HAER RI-19 Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Earle D. Pearce House, 225-227 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence ...
Significance: This was a large brick, double house, built before 1836, demolished in 1959. It was similar in appearance to several other blocks of row houses in the same area. It was three stories high, each ... More
Pine Street (House Interior), (Fragments in Plantations Club, Weybosse...
Survey number: HABS RI-289 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Croade Tavern, Great Road (moved from 13-15 Dexter Street, Pawtucket),...
Survey number: HABS RI-88 Building/structure dates: ca. 1700 Initial Construction
Charles Potter House, 154 Waterman Street, Providence, Providence Coun...
Significance: This is a large brick house, designed by Thomas Tefft in the 1850s, extensively altered later. Survey number: HABS RI-217 Building/structure dates: ca. 1854 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
Christmas trees for sale at the market in Providence, Rhode Island
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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
An Italian farm woman near Providence, Rhode Island preparing spaghett...
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
At a Saturday night square dance in Clayville, Rhode Island
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More
Remington Sheldon Business Building, 379-381 South Main Street, Provid...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blackstone Canal, Canal Tender's House, Blackstone River, Washington H...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Albion Trench Bridge, School Street spanning Albion Mill Race, Cumberl...
Survey number: HAER RI-22 Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blackstone Canal, Charles & Randall Streets, Canal & Haymarket Streets...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blackstone Canal, Charles & Randall Streets, Canal & Haymarket Streets...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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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Charles Street Bridge, Spanning West River on Charles Street, Providen...
Significance: The Charles Street Bridge is an early example of the use of prefabricated steel beams (riveted plate girders). The use of prefabricated beams simplified the design and construction of bridges, pa... More