Preview
Date
4-26-1987
Description
Railroad relocation was one of the core elements of the Providence Renaissance. In this aerial we can see the dirt lot where the railroad tracks were formerly located and sadly, the burned roof of Union Station. Union Station suffered severe fire damage on April 4, 1987, one year after the completion of its replacement station (Providence Station). Union Station had been in the works for a remodeling for other use (office space) alongside much of the area under redevelopment plans through the River Relocation Project and overall revitalization of Downtown Providence. The fire was not necessarily a setback for all projects, but its rehabilitation process conjoined itself to the (re)developments at Kennedy Plaza and of Waterplace Park.
Rights
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
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Recommended Citation
Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
Keywords
aerials, Union Station, city planning, Capital Center, Burnside Park, Woonasquatucket River, automobile parking, railroad stations
Notes
Bibliography: Woodward, William McKenzie. PPS/AlAri Guide to Providence Architecture. Providence Preservation Society, 2003. pp. 104. "One Union Station." Rhode Island Foundation, 2017, http://www.rifoundation.org/TransformingRhodeIsland/100YearsofCommunity/OneUnionStation.aspx. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.