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)
Style/Period
American Colonial; Anglican (Church of England)
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[typed, top:] From the show called "RHODE ISLAND ARCHITECTURE", June, 1939- October / 20, 1939. At the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, / Providence, Rhode Island. / Exhibited Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, November and December, 1939. / Exhibited Lawrence College, January, 1940. / Selected examples exhibited Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, / March, 1940. ; [typed, bottom:] TRINITY CHURCH, Newport, 1725-26. By Richard Monday. / Photo by Covell. / This Anglican church follows the models provided by Wren's London churches / of a generation earlier rather than the American seventeenth century meeting- / house. Extended in 1762.
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); box pews; pulpits