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[3] [2] The diner was originally placed at 13 Dexter Street in Pawtucket. [3] It operated at that site until 1984, when it was moved to its present location to avoid demolition. [3] The diner was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] It was the first diner to be added to the register. [4]
An engraving depicting Exchange Place in 1886. Kennedy Plaza has seen numerous transformations over the 19th and 20th centuries. [3] According to architectural historian William McKenzie Woodword, the site is Providence's "most constantly reworked space, and fully interpreting its history would fill a book that could be a landmark in understanding American urbanism."
Amica Mutual Pavilion garage at 114 West Exchange Street. Providence Place garage at 11 Providence Place. South Street Landing Parking Garage at 330 Eddy St. ... RI Kung Fu & Lion Dance Club.
The Exchange Street Historic District is an industrial and civic historic district roughly along Exchange, Front and Fountain Streets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.The 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) area is located just north of Pawtucket's downtown, and includes seven buildings and the Exchange Street Bridge, which spans the Blackstone River.
However, this project was unable to attract shoppers away from the new suburban Midland Mall (1968) and Warwick Mall (1972). [5] Within a decade, all the street's major department stores had closed except Woolworth's, and in 1989 the pedestrian mall was torn up, and the street was returned to vehicular traffic. [5]
The park was dedicated in 1892 and landscaped following the completion of Union Station in 1898. Monumental sculpture was added in the first decade of the 20th century, including the resetting of the equestrian portrait of General Ambrose E. Burnside (1887, Launt Thompson, sculptor) from Exchange Place in 1906. [3]
Providence's first federal building and custom house, built in the Italianate style, was constructed 1855-1857. As the city grew, the need for more space became apparent. In 1908, a new courthouse, post office, and custom house building in the Beaux Arts style was erected at the northeast end of Exchange Place Mall (now Kennedy Plaza).
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