1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1775
Photographer
Norman Watson
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
meeting houses (religious buildings)
Image Type
photographic prints; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
width: 30 inches, height: 40 inches
Inscription
[typed label, bottom right:] 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 colours 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)