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The Hay Building (117-135 Dyer Street) is a four-story structure, built in 1867 for Alexander Duncan, as a speculative business venture. It was designed by James C. Bucklin . The Hay Building was formerly the Hay Buildings, as a matching structure once stood on the parking lot behind the building.
Tallest building in Rhode Island constructed in the 1930s [22] [24] 13 Turk's Head Building: 217 (66) 16 1913 Providence Office Tallest building in Rhode Island constructed in the 1910s [22] [25] 14 Waterplace 2: 210 (64) 17 2008 Providence
The Shepard Company Building is a historic building at 255 Westminster Street and 72-92 Washington Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.A prominent landmark, it housed Shepard's, Providence's most prestigious department store, and one of the largest in New England, from 1903 to 1974, beginning as a single building built in the 1870s at Clemence and Washington and continually expanding ...
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
One Financial Plaza, also known as the Sovereign Bank Tower and formerly known as the Hospital Trust Tower, [1] is an international-style skyscraper that stands along Kennedy Plaza in Downtown Providence, Rhode Island. The building is the second-tallest in the city and state, surpassed in height only by the Industrial National Bank Building.
The layout of the buildings, whose short ends face the river and Roosevelt Avenue, was defined by a series of trenches (now filled in) which channeled water from the river to power the machinery of the mills. The oldest building dates to 1825, and the most recent to c. 1910; all have been modified to some extent by later industrial tenants. [2]
A $23.5-million investment to develop Rhode Island's first food hall in the station was begun in 2022, [13] by a local developer who purchased the building from The Rhode Island Foundation. [14] The 18,000-square-foot food hall will be named Track 15 , a reference to the fact that the historic Union Station had 14 tracks. [ 14 ]