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Date
1-1-1983
Description
Fields Point was once considered the city’s premier park location as the site of popular restaurants and the Washington Park Yacht Club. However, in the mid-20th century the area was transformed into a sewage treatment plant and municipal dump. The Return Sludge Pumping Station at Fields Point was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Rights
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Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Dates
1934-1935
Creator 2 Role
Engineer
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Keywords
aerial, Port of Providence, Fields Point, Washington Park, sewage treatment, urban parks
Notes
Bibliography: "Historic American Engineering Record Providence Sewage Treatment System: Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station" Philadelphia: Historic American Engineering Record Mid-Atlantic Region Department of the Interior, 1989. Anderson-Nichols & Co. and Waterman Engineering Co. "City of Providence, Study of Sewage Improvements, Step l. Facilities, Plan, Engineering Report" 1979.