Slide Title
Preview

Date
January 1990
Description
Designed by Marilyn Jordan Taylor of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLC, this is a typical SOM interior where all materials are falsified. The domed interior brings a sense of polite space to the public that finds its origins in the Pantheon and domed Renaissance spaces.
Creator 2 Role
Designer
Building Type
Train Station
Building Style
Post-Modernism
Themes
Urban Development
Subject Headings
Railroad stations -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Providence Station (Providence, RI); Architecture, Postmodern -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Interior design -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Public spaces -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
11 Dorrance St.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Marilyn Jordan, "Providence Station (interior)" (1990). Browse All. 47.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/47
Keywords
railroad stations, interiors, Providence Station, post-modernism, domed spaces
Notes
Bibliography: Woodward, Wm Mckenzie. PPS/AIAri Guide to Providence Architecture. Providence, RI: Providence Preservation Society, 2003, pp. 303-304. Fisher, Thomas. "Past Progressives: Providence Train Station, SOM." Hanley Wood Media, Inc., 16 Feb. 2010, www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/past-progressives-providence-train-station-som_o. Accessed 12 Dec. 2016. Heppner, Frank. "Railroads of Rhode Island." The History Press, 2012, pp. 186.