1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1775
Archives Identifier
Photographer
Norman Watson
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
meeting houses (religious buildings)
Image Type
photographic prints; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[8 inches x 10 inches verso, typed, left:] CATALOG NUMBER: / DATE: 1775 / EXHIBITIONS: / COLLECTIONS: / DESCRIPTION: FIRST BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE, Providence. 1775. By / Joseph Brown, 1733-1785. The tower, copied from Gibbs' Book of / Architecture, 1728, was originally painted in different colours / to suggest rich marbles. / BIBLIOGRAPHY: / NOTES: [enlargement, typed label, bottom right:] [upper right of typed label, handwritten in pencil:] 44 [typed portion of label:] FIRST BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE, 1775 / North MAin Street, Providence / Architect: Joseph Brown / The tower copied from Gibbs' BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE, 1728, was / originally painted in different colors to suggest rich marbles. / Photo by Watson
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)