Slide Title
Preview
Date
January 1989
Description
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.
Creator 1 Role
photographer
Creator 2 Role
Architectural firm
Building Type
Skyscraper
Building Style
Neoclassical
Themes
Historic Buildings
Subject Headings
Historic buildings -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Skyscrapers -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Downtown districts -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
62 Dorrance Street
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet and Stone, Carpenter, & Willson, "Union Trust Company Building" (1989). Smolski Images. 5.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/5
Keywords
skyscrapers, banks, historic buildings, financial district, downtown
Notes
Bibliography: Woodward, William McKenzie. PPS/AlAri Guide to Providence Architecture. Providence Preservation Society, 2003. pp. 88, 171. Jordy, William H. Buildings of Rhode Island. Oxford, 2004, pp. 51.