Westminster Street Historic District is a commercial
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
consisting of six buildings along the north side of Westminster Street in
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
, a short way west of
Interstate 95
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. Three of the buildings are located just west of Dean Street, while the other three are just to its east. Five of the six buildings were constructed between 1870 and 1900, and the sixth in 1933. These five, the most prominent of which is the
Burrows Block are uniformly built of brick and masonry, while the Chiapinelli Block, at the eastern end of the district, is an Art Deco office building with a concrete main facade and brick sidewalls.
The district was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2003.
Gallery
File:Westminster Street Historic District East 2015.jpg, East half of the district
File:763 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 765–769 Westminster Street (Bongartz Building)
File:755 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 747–755 Westminster Street
File:741 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 735–745 Westminster Street ( Burrows Block)
File:719 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 719–725 Westminster Street
File:711-717 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 711–717 Westminster Street
File:705 Westminster Street 2015.jpg, 705 Westminster Street (S. Chiappinelli Building)
See also
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References
Historic districts in Providence County, Rhode Island
Geography of Providence, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
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