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Date

4-1-1971

Description

Apponaug is the center, or downtown, of Warwick, the second largest city in Rhode Island. Centered in this photograph is the City Hall, completed as the town hall in 1894, the city spent $75,000 to complete what is one of the most significant 19th century structure in the city. Other notable structures are the post office, police and fire headquarters, and a museum. Apponaug is also the junction of three of the cities biggest routes: Routes 1, 5 and 117. The area has a one way traffic pattern that was established in the 1960s to help the efficiency of automobile traffic, the pattern remains to the present.

Notes

Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission. Warwick, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report K-W-1. (Warwick, 1981). pp. 32

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Photographer

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

Keywords

town center, city hall, aerial, 19th century architecture, roads, traffic flow

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