Slide Title
Preview
Date
Spring 3-1974
Description
Woodward describes the Thomas Aldrich House as an asymmetrical four bay Federal style house. It was moved to Power Street from 39 Benevolent Street in 1950 to make room for the Wriston Quadrangle of Brown University. While it was built by Aldrich, a painter, the house was occupied by Sarah Helen Whitman as a literary salon, seance parlor and sanitarium for her sister. Sarah Helen is best known for her relationship with Edgar Allen Poe during the 1840s when she lived in the John Reynolds House at 88 Benefit Street. The house has an excellent classical entrance with a pediment, flanking pilasters and a semi-circular fanlight.
Building Style
Neoclassical
Themes
Historic Preservation
Subject Headings
Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Thomas Aldrich House (Providence, R.I.); Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Architecture - United States - 19th Century; Historic Buildings -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Country Name
United States of America
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
140 Power Street
Recommended Citation
Aldrich, Thomas, "Thomas Aldrich House" (1974). Browse All. 108.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/108
Keywords
Thomas Aldrich; Sarah Helen Whitman; Federal Style; East Side Providence; Providence; domestic architecture; preservation
Notes
http://www.poetspress.org/poepref.htm
Wm. McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historical Resources. Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986, pp. 141 and 214.