Category: Rhode Island Landmarks
The William Watts Sherman House, located on Shepard Avenue, is another notable structure in Newport, Rhode Island. It was built in 1875 by talented architect H.H. Richardson, and its interiors were done by Stanford...
The recent years have seen the boom of condominium complexes in Providence, Rhode Island. This trend is the urban developers’ answer to the increase of population and the increase in demand for livable space...
A real estate company called the Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation is the mastermind behind the high-rise project called Waterplace. The Rhode Island Building Trades and Gilbane Building Company entered into a Project Labor Agreement...
During the 1870s to the 1920s, the affluent Vanderbilt family commissioned the very best and most expensive architectural and interior design firms to build a series of townhouses in New York and mansions in...
The Trinity Church is located at 141 Spring Street, Newport, Rhode Island. Built and founded in 1725, the Trinity Church is the oldest Episcopal parish in Rhode Island. It was designed by Rhode Island...
Atop a small hill in Touro Street, Newport, Rhode Island sits the oldest surviving Jewish synagogue in the whole of North America, the Touro Synagogue. It is over two centuries old and it is...
The Breakers is another one of Newport’s famous Gilded Age Vanderbilt mansions that is under the management of the Preservation Society of Newport County. It is located on Ochre Point Avenue and is designated...
Along Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island is a number of restaurants and shops where most of the people from the different schools on College Hill come together. These include the Avon Cinema, the...
The Rhode Island State House is situated in Rhode Island’s capital of Providence. The capitol contains the Rhode Island General Assembly and, of course, the offices of the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary...
A small twelve thousand dollar cement church building was opened on December 10, 1837. This modest structure was known as the church of Saints Peter and Paul. Over the years, the Catholics in Providence...