Slide Title
Preview
Date
1986
Description
In 1986, the current Providence Station was built to replace the 1898 Union Station, as part of a redevelopment project to free up land from a mass of train tracks that had hemmed in downtown Providence. It is much smaller than its predecessor, reflecting the diminished local role of railroad transit. Designed by Marilyn Jordan Taylor of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP, local architectural historian William McKenzie Woodward lauds the building for its aesthetics, calling its saucer dome "an obvious yet very gracious gesture toward the (Rhode Island) State House."
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Role
Supervising Architects
Creator 3 Role
Designer
Building Type
Train Station
Building Style
Post-Modernism
Themes
Urban development
Subject Headings
Providence Station (Providence, RI);Architecture, Postmodern -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Railroad station; Capital Center (Providence, RI); Rhode Island State House (Providence, RI)
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
One Station Place
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Marilyn Taylor, "Providence Station and Rhode Island State House" (1986). Browse All. 54.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/54
Keywords
railroad station, state house, Providence Station, Capital Center
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.