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
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[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:
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)