The Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Historic District is a predominantly industrial
historic district in
Providence, Rhode Island
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. It covers a roughly area in the city's
Jewelry District, just south of
Downtown Providence
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. While the area began as a residential neighborhood, it emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a center of Providence's jewelry manufacturing businesses. The oldest industrial building in the district is the 1848 Elm Street Machine Shop (116 Elm Street), a -story stone structure that now houses offices of
Brown University.
The district has an irregular L shape, reflecting a
since rerouted portion of
Interstate 195. The main north-south section of the district includes properties on Hospital and Imperial Streets between Davol Point Street and Bassett Street, while the east-west section extends along Bassett and Clifford Streets to Chestnut, and then extends further along Ship Street to Eddy. It includes 21 factory buildings, five shops or garages, and three residences.
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The district was listed on the ]National Register of Historic Places
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in 1985, and expanded by the inclusion of several buildings in 2012.[
]
Gallery
File:Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island.jpg, Little Nemo Building (Frank S. Perry, 1928), now part of Brown
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's Alpert Medical School
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See also
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References
{{National Register of Historic Places
Historic districts in Providence County, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Jewellery districts
Unofficial neighborhoods of Providence, Rhode Island