1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1772
Photographer
Nicholas Romano
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
historic houses
Style/Period
American Colonial
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[verso, handwritten in pencil, left:] Providence / North Main / Dr. Throop / Zachariah Allen house / Clarendon Hotel / Raised / woodwork in lower story removed / and 1/2 in Brooklyn and 1/2 in Minneapolis[?] / woodwork in upper story removed by [illegible] ; [verso, handwritten in pencil in different hand:] Plate XXXVI Battey Langley / Builder's Assistant, Vol II / Shows this doorway very well / But, engaged columns not fluted / and back not rusticated. / A. F. Downing / [verso, handwritten in pencil in different hand:] neg in State House / perhaps retake [verso, bottom right:] [1772] / 118 N. Main St. Prov [verso, top right:] A2
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)