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The Woonsocket City Hall, (also known as the Harris Institute) is located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Edward Harris , a leading Woonsocket industrialist, constructed the earliest part of the building in 1856, and it was known as the Harris Block, with stores on the first floor, and an auditorium hall seating 1,100 on the third floor.
Woonsocket (/ w ʊ n ˈ s ɒ k ɪ t, w ə n-/ ⓘ wuun-SOK-it, wən-[6]), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 census , making it the sixth largest city in the state.
It includes two properties previously listed on the National Register: Woonsocket City Hall, and the conjoined Honan's Block and 112-114 Main Street. [ 2 ] See also
In the town council–town meeting system, there is no full-time chief executive. [ 5 ] The largest municipality by population in Rhode Island is the state capital of Providence , with 190,934 residents.
This is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Included in the list are all properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States. Woonsocket is home to 44 of the more than 400 properties and districts listed in Providence County.
In 1964, after three men were killed in a Woonsocket blaze, the city’s chief housing inspector determined that 17 out of 19 licensed rooming houses weren’t meeting minimum safety standards.
"In Woonsocket, there is a sandwich known as a 'dynamite.' It is served on a torpedo roll. It is served on a torpedo roll. Often compared with Sloppy Joe's but dynamites have peppers and onions.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Woonsocket; Woonsocket City Hall; Woonsocket Civil War Monument; Woonsocket Company Mill Complex; Woonsocket District Courthouse; Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill; Woonsocket Senior High and Junior High Schools (1914 building) Woonsocket station