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Description
The building looks like a skyscraper due to its slender massing. The client for this building was bank president Marsden J. Perry. Building was built by architects Stone, Carpenter & Willson. A 12-story, brick and stone sheathed, steel frame office building. Finished with a melange Renaissance and late Georgian Revival detailing. Corinthian column entrance, bas-relief figures of an Indian and a Puritan, carved by Daniel Chester French, recline on their elbows. First skyscraper in Providence to use the classical base-shaft-capital organization for tall buildings. Refurbished in 1981, additions and renovations were made in 1920, 1928, and in 1964. Greater Providence Trust Company acquired the building in 1982 for use of its banking headquarters and undertook careful restoration of this historic structure.
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Creator 2 Role
Architectural firm
Building Style
Beaux-Arts
Subject Headings
Historic buildings -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Providence;
Country Name
United States of America
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
62 Dorrance St.
Recommended Citation
Stone, Carpenter & Willson, "Union Trust Company Building (Detail)" (2011). Browse All. 254.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/254
Keywords
Union Trust Co Building; Providence; architecture;
Notes
Wm. McKenzie Woodward, PPS/AlAri Guide to Providence Architecture (s.l., 2003) p. 86, 171
William H. Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island, (2004), p. 51.