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The Elmwood Historic District encompasses two large residential sections of the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.The Elmwood area was mainly farmland until the mid-19th century, when its development as a residential area began, and these two sections represents well-preserved neighborhoods developed between about 1850 and 1920. [2]
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.
Columbus Square is the heart of the Elmwood Avenue business district that abuts the South Elmwood Historic District. [2] After June 2020, the location consists of a fenced triangle of land, half paved-over with brick, with about a dozen trees and a square granite slab where the Columbus statue once stood.
The Parkis–Comstock Historic District is a residential historic district in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.It includes all of the properties on Parkis Avenue and a number of properties on the western end of Comstock Street and Harvard Avenue, just across Broad Street from Parkis.
The Central Diner, also called Paula's Kitchen and formerly known as The Elmwood Diner, Liberty Elm Diner, Jenn's Elmwood Diner, Ole Elmwood Diner, or Worcester Lunch Car Company Diner #806, is a historic Worcester Lunch Car Company diner at 777 Elmwood Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island.
A Hispanic church on Elmwood Avenue. The neighborhood remains one of the most ethnically, culturally, and racially diverse in the city. [6] As of March 2007, 56.7% of the population was Hispanic, 23.3% Black or African-American, 23.6% White (10.5% Non-Hispanic White), 9.3% Asian, and 1.8% Native American.
It includes four properties on the south and west side of Trinity Square, the triangular junction of Elmwood Avenue and Broad Street. The visual focal points of the district are the Grace Church Cemetery, which is located south of the square, and the Trinity United Methodist Church, an imposing Gothic Revival structure built in the mid-1860s to ...
Providence College and La Salle Academy moved to the area in 1917 and 1925 respectively. [1] Nathanael Greene Middle School, a yellow brick Tudor Gothic style public school, was built in 1929 on Chalkstone Avenue. [2] Following World War II, Elmhurst saw growth of a suburban character as it was one of the few areas in Providence with ...