Captions List for Rhode Island Photos

Word index of all photos (without thumbnails) covering the: travel attractions, architecturally-significant buildings, monuments, museums.

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  • Providence: Skyline with One Financial Plaza (1973) by John Carl Warnecke.; 50 Kennedy Plaza (1985) & Bank of America (1927) Buildings by Walker & Gillette + George Frederick Hall.
  • Providence: One Financial Plaza, 50 Kennedy Plaza, & Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: One Financial Plaza, 50 Kennedy Plaza, & Bank of America Building tower over Kennedy Square.
  • Providence: Bank of America Building (former Industrial Trust Company) (1928) (Westminster St.) 26 floors.
  • Providence: Tower detail of Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Rhode Island crest on Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Relief of early settlers casting a canon on Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Relief of grinding grain using a millstone on Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Relief of paddle side-wheel steamship on Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Relief showing first Providence to Boston steam train on Bank of America Building.
  • Providence: Civil War Memorial (1866-71) or Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Kennedy Square.
  • Providence: Bronze sculptures on Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Kennedy Square by artist Randolph Rogers.
  • Providence: Providence City Hall (1874-78) on Kennedy Square.
  • Providence: Providence City Hall facade with roundel containing theoretical portrait of colony founder Roger Williams.
  • Providence: US Post Office, Court & Custom's Building on Kennedy Square.
  • Providence: Intermodal Transportation Center on Kennedy Square.
  • Providence: One Financial Plaza & 50 Kennedy Plaza.
  • Providence: 50 Kennedy Plaza (1985) 20 floors.
  • Providence: One Financial Plaza (1973) 28 floors.
  • Providence: Providence Arcade (1828) (65 Weybosset St.).
  • Providence: Interior of Providence Arcade, the oldest mall in the USA.
  • Providence: Interior details of Providence Arcade.
  • Providence: Turk's Head Building (1913) (76 Westminster St.) 16 floors.
  • Providence: Stone carving which gives Turk's Head Building its name.
  • Providence: Facade of Union Trust Building.
  • Providence: Federal Reserve (aka Union Trust) Building (1901) (60 Dorance St.) 12 floors.
  • Providence: Commercial building at 260 Westminster St.
  • Providence: Carving detail on 260 Westminster St.
  • Providence: Dormers on 260 Westminster St. against Biltmore Hotel.
  • Providence: Gaspee Building (c1891) (Westminster St.).
  • Providence: O'Gorman Building (1925) (232 Westminster St.).
  • Providence: Cast Iron corner of University of Rhode Island Providence campus (255 Westminster St.).
  • Providence: Tilden-Thurber Co. Building (292 Westminster St.).
  • Providence: Building at Westminster & Empire Streets.
  • Providence: Grace Church (1846) (175 Matthewson St.) is noted for it Tiffany windows.
  • Providence: Grace Church spire at 200 feet.
  • Providence: Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (1889) (1 Cathedral Square).
  • Providence: Beneficent Congregational Meetinghouse (aka Round Top Church) (1810) (300 Weybosset St.).
  • Providence: Summerfield Building (PAR Building) (1913) (274 Weybosset St.) was first reinforced concrete frame in city.
  • Providence: Richmond Building (270 Weybosset St.).
  • Providence: Providence Performing Arts Center former Loew's State Theatre/Ocean State Theatre (220 Weybosset St.).
  • Providence: Providence Performing Arts Center.
  • Providence: Providence Performing Arts Center.
  • Providence: 86 Weybosset St.
  • Providence: Wilcox Building (1875) (Weybosset St.).
  • Providence: Rhode Island State House (1904).
  • Providence: Front stairs of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Gold statue of Independent Man with spear & anchor on dome of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Detail of world's second largest marble dome on Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Entry facade of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Statue of Mathew Perry on grounds of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: View of dome & facade of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Rotunda of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Interior of Dome on Rhode Island State House, second largest marble dome surpassed only by St Peters in Rome.
  • Providence: Lamp stand in Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Mural to justice in dome of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Mural to education in dome of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Mural to commerce in dome of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Mural to literature in dome of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: House chamber of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Clock with two eagles in House chamber of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Senate chamber of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Speakers chair in Senate chamber of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Murals in Senate chamber of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Library in Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Spiral staircase of Library in Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Spiral staircase of Library in Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Ceiling of State Reception Room in Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1802), a Rhode Island native, in the State Reception Room of Rhode Island State House.
  • Providence: Department of Transportation Building opposite State House on Capitol Hill.
  • Providence: College Hill with an array of steeples.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House (1774-5) (75 North Main Street).
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House spire 56m 185 ft.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House spire top.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House spire weather vane.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House church built on the site where Roger Williams founded his congregation in 1638.
  • Providence: First Baptist Meeting House, the oldest Baptist church in America.
  • Providence: Fleur de Lys House (1885) (7 Thomas St.) features murals of the arts.
  • Providence: Three spires including Superior Courthouse & First Unitarian Church.
  • Providence: Domed spire of public building on Main Street.
  • Providence: Providence County Courthouse (1933) (250 Benefit St.) 7 floors.
  • Providence: Spire of Superior Court.
  • Providence: Superior Court & First World War Monument.
  • Providence: First World War Monument (1926) in front of Superior Court.
  • Providence: Riverfront buildings with restored river district.
  • Providence: Museum of Anthropology & First Unitarian Church.
  • Providence: Old Stone Bank dome on Main Street (1898) now Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
  • Providence: First Unitarian Church (1816) (One Benevolent St.).
  • Providence: First Unitarian Church facade.
  • Providence: First Unitarian Church steeple.
  • Providence: First Unitarian Church facade & windows.
  • First Church of Christ Scientist dome (1913) (Prospect St.).
  • Providence: College hill with Robinson Hall & Carrie Tower of Brown University.
  • Providence: Brown University Carrie Tower (1904).
  • Providence: Brown University Van Wickle Gates (1901).
  • Providence: Brown University's Robinson Hall (64 Waterman St.) (1878) was the New Library when opened.
  • Providence: Eagle gargoyle on Robinson Hall.
  • Providence: Robinson Hall octagonal tower.
  • Providence: Brown Manning Hall (1834) in front of University Hall (1770).
  • Providence: John Carter Brown Library (1901).
  • Providence: Wilson Hall (1891) originally built as a physics building of Brown University.
  • Providence: Sayles Hall (1881) of Brown University.
  • Providence: Lyman Hall (1890) of Brown University was originally a gymnasium & is now used for performing arts.
  • Providence: Lyman Hall archway & tower.
  • Providence: John Hay Library (1910).
  • Providence: John Hay Library facade.
  • Providence: Brown University's List Art Building (1969-1971) (64 College St.).
  • Providence: List Art Building projecting sections.
  • Providence: List Art Building slender support columns & louvers.
  • Providence: Soldiers Memorial Arch (1921) dedicated to Brown University alums killed in World War I.
  • Providence: Modern Sculpture on Brown University campus in front of Barus Hall.
  • Providence: Marston Hall (1926) modern languages building (20 Manning Walk) of limestone.
  • Providence: Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Center for Information Technology (1988) (5 floors) at Brown University.
  • Providence: Third World Center building in former mansion.
  • Providence: 72 Waterman St.
  • Providence: 70 Waterman St. (1859) now Center for Old World Archaeology & Art at Brown University.
  • Providence: 70 Waterman St. on Brown University campus.
  • Providence: Prospect House (36 Prospect St.)or former Admiral Inn now Political Science Dept. at Brown University.
  • Providence: Thomas Whitaker House (1821-4) (67 George St.).
  • Providence: Charles Lipitt House (1845-52) (5&7 Charlesfield St.).
  • Providence: William R. Watson House (c1865) (13 Charlesfield St.).
  • Providence: Nightingale-Brown House (1792) (357 Benefit St.) built for Captain Joseph Nightingale.
  • Providence: Nightingale-Brown House is the largest wooden Federal-style building in USA.
  • Providence: Daniel Smith House (c1750) (362 Benefit St.).
  • Providence: William Ashton House (1790-95) (368 Benefit St.).
  • Providence: Thomas Peckham House (before 1824) (395 Benefit St.).
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill complex on Blackstone River, on a site offered both water power & ship access.
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill Historic Site pond overview.
  • Pawtucket: Wilkinson Mill (1810) which milled the tools used in adjacent Slater Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Rough stone surface of Wilkinson Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Water wheel which powered Wilkinson Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Gears which transmitted power from water wheel in Wilkinson Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Planking machine which surfaced lumber boards in Wilkinson Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Wilkinson Mill & Sylvanus Brown house at Slater Mill Historic Site.
  • Pawtucket: Sylvanus Brown house (1758) occupied (1784-1824) by the patternmaker who made the machinery for the Slater Mill.
  • Pawtucket: Shaker boxes, part of the furnishings of the Sylvanus Brown house.
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill over mill raceway.
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill entrance tower.
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill bell tower once used to signal workers to wake up & then again to come to work when workers lacked clocks.
  • Pawtucket: Slater Mill & dam (1793), the first cotton mill in America, now an industrial museum.
  • Pawtucket: Cotton Gin (1930) by Carver Cotton Gin Company of East Bridgewater, MA automated process of removing seeds from cotton.
  • Pawtucket: 500 lb bale of cotton as shipped from Southern US plantations.
  • Pawtucket: Cotton bale breaker (c1840) where rotating spikes chipped off pieces from compressed cotton bales.
  • Pawtucket: Mannequin reminds Slater Mill visitors that running a cotton carding machine (replica c1790) was dangerous child labor.
  • Pawtucket: Cotton carding engine (c1870) by Franklin Machine Co., Providence RI.
  • Pawtucket: Cotton drawing frame (1922) by Howard & Bullough, Accrington, England & Pawtucket.
  • Pawtucket: Speeder / Roving Machine (c1830) by Locks & Canal Co., Lowell, MA.
  • Pawtucket: Arkwright Water Frame (replica c1775) after R. Arkwright, Derbyshire, England.
  • Pawtucket: Throstle Spinning Frame (c1835) Locks & Canal Co., Lowell, MA.
  • Pawtucket: Thread Manufacturing Machine or Spinning Mule (1909) by Hetherington & Sons, Manchester, England.
  • Pawtucket: Hetherington Spinning Mule in expanded position where child labor once worked under mechanism fetching broken threads.
  • Pawtucket: Jacquard loom where wooden punch cards programmed pattern to be woven.
  • Pawtucket: Details of Jacquard loom at Slater Mill Historic Site Museum.
  • Pawtucket: Narrow Fabric Loom (1899) by Crompton & Knowles, Worcester, MA.
  • Pawtucket: Circular Knitting Machine (1891) by Tompkins Brothers Machine Co., Troy, NY.
  • Pawtucket: Circular Knitting Machine technical details.
  • Pawtucket: Maypole Braider (c1872) by New England Butt Co, Providence, RI.
  • Pawtucket: High-Speed Braider (c1920) by Wardwell Braiding Machine Co., Central Falls, RI for wrapping electrical wiring with insulating thread.
  • Pawtucket: Stained glass advertising salvaged from New England Butt Co, Providence, RI.
  • Pawtucket: Church seen across mill waterfall at Slater Mill Historic Site.
  • Newport: Cliff walk & mansions of town once the summer enclave of America's wealthy.
  • Newport: The Breakers mansion ocean-side facade on Cliff Walk was home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II & family.
  • Newport: The Breakers columns & floral gardens.
  • Newport: The Breakers (1893-5).
  • Newport: The Breakers porch ceiling mosaics.
  • Newport: The Breakers arches detail.
  • Newport: The Breakers sculpted bronze lamp post.
  • Newport: The Breakers Children's House porch columns carved figures of bagpiper & player with mask.
  • Newport: Rosecliff mansion (1902) of marble.
  • Newport: Rosecliff mansion sculpted stone fountain of cherub holding fish over cranes.
  • Newport: Rosecliff mansion architectural details of neoclassical window surround.
  • Newport: Rosecliff mansion iron phoenix holds lamp over entrance.
  • Newport: Astor's Beechwood mansion garden with stone dogs & sea.
  • Newport: Astor's Beechwood mansion (1855) occupied by the Astors in 1880.
  • Newport: Astor's Beechwood mansion rococo details of ballroom.
  • Newport: Astor's Beechwood mansion ballroom ceiling mural of Neptune.
  • Newport: Marble House (1888-92) built for Alva Vanderbilt.
  • Newport: Marble House spouting head fountains along grand entry.
  • Newport: Marble House iron grill of sun god face over window.
  • Newport: Marble House garden stone urn & hydrangeas.
  • Newport: Marble House Chinese teahouse.
  • Newport: Chateau-sur-mer (1851-52) built by China Trade Merchant William Westmore.
  • Newport: The Elms (1899-1901) French-style chateau built by coal millionaire Edward Berwind.
  • Newport: The Elms sculpture of lion fighting a crocodile.
  • Newport: Salve Regina College on Cliff Walk.
  • Newport: Colony House (1734-76) later Rhode Island State House (1776-1900).
  • Newport: Trinity Church (1726) steeple.
  • Newport: Touro Synagogue (1763) neoclassical entrance.
  • Newport: Wilbour Ellery House (1801) front door on Washington Square.
  • Newport: Newport Artillery Company (1835) (23 Clarke Street).
  • Newport: Simon Pease House (1700) (32 Clarke St.).
  • Newport: Newport Art Museum in Griswald House (1864).
  • Newport: Griswald House (1864) now Newport Art Museum.
  • Newport: Commodore Mathew Galbraith Perry (1794-1858) Memorial detail showing US treaty with Japan.
  • Newport: Victorian house once location of US Naval Academy during Civil War 1861-65.
  • Newport: Bowen's Wharf shops & restaurants.
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