1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Date Range
1725 - 1726
Photographer
William King Covell
Location
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
churches (buildings); steeples (building components)
Style/Period
Anglican (Church of England); American Colonial
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[verso, typed:] DATE: 1725-26 / DESCRIPTION: TRINITY CHURCH, Newport. 1725-26. By Richard / Munday. This Anglican church follows the models provided by / Wren's London churches of a generation earliee [sic] rather than the / American seventeenth century meeting-house type. Extended in / 1762. (Rhode Island Architecture, Hitchcock.) / BIBLIOGRAPHY: / NOTES:
Description
exterior; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Keywords
architecture (discipline); churches (buildings)