1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Date Range
c.1809
Photographer
Nicholas Romano
Location
Harris, Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
villages
Image Type
photographic prints; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[8 inches x 10 inches, verso, handwritten in black ink:] Mill Village - Harris - Coventry Town / One of the largest and best preserved early / villages - the date is uncertain; but the houses, / although certainly later than those of about / 1809 and about 1810 at Hope, are probably / not as late as the mill of 1851. The site / planning of the group is as good as the / design of the individual cottages [enlargement, typed label, bottom right:] MILL VILLAGE / Harris, Coventry Town / One of the largest and best preserved early villages. The date / is uncertain; but the houses, although certainly later than / those of about 1809 at Lippitt and about 1810 at Hope are / probably not as late as the mill of 1851. The site planning / of the group is as good as the design of the individual cottages. / Photo by Romano
Description
neighborhood view of mill village houses; 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)