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

[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

verso of photograph; 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)

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