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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.
Municipalities in Rhode Island can incorporate as a town or city by a special act of the state legislature and there is no minimum population requirement. [4] Eight municipalities were re-incorporated as cities operating under a charter, while the other 31 remain as towns which perform similar services. [4]
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.
The Lafayette Worsted Company Administrative Headquarters Historic District encompasses the two surviving buildings of a once-extensive textile mill complex in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Located near the Woonsocket Middle School on Hamlet Avenue are a former guest house, built about 1920, and the mill's 1923 administration building, an elaborate ...
Rhode Island is one of the few places where someone asking for a "dynamite" is probably not looking for explosives. They're probably requesting a very specific sandwich. "In Woonsocket, there is a ...
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
Nationwide, the number of rooming house residents shrank from 634,000 in 1960 to 330,000 a decade later. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau doesn’t track that figure at all.