Slide Title

Hay Building

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Date

Fall 11-1978

Description

Designed by James Bucklin, the Hay Block (1867) is a Second Empire commercial building composed of red brick with granite trim. On the street level are cast iron storefronts.

The Hay Block was then “married” to Stone and Carpenter’s Owen Building to form “one trapezoidal whole.”

Notes

Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford, 2004), 64.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_and_Owen_Buildings

contemporary photos:

http://www.showcase.com/property/123-135-Dyer-Street/Providence/Rhode-Island/1076497

http://www.showcase.com/property/123-135-Dyer-Street/Providence/Rhode-Island/1076497

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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.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Role

Designer

Recommended Citation

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

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