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Date

1987

Description

In this 1987 view the newly constructed Francis Street approach to the State House is complete thru the future intersection with Memorial Blvd. Interstate 95 separates Providence's West Side from downtown. The Foundry Building is on the left side of the highway, and URI’s College of Continuing Education is grouped below Veterans Memorial Auditorium. The college buildings will make way for the Providence Place Mall's construction concluding in 1999.

Notes

Bibliography: Leazes, Francis J. and Mark T. Motte, Providence, the Renaissance City. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004, pp. 264.

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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.

Themes

Urban Redevelopment

Subject Headings

Aerial photography in city planning; Urban renewal-- Rhode Island-- Providence; City planning-- Rhode Island-- Providence; Land use, Urban-- Rhode Island-- Providence; Capital Center (Providence, RI); United States Highway 95 (Providence, RI); Rhode Island State House (Providence, RI); Woonasquatucket River (Providence, RI); Automobile parking -- Rhode Island -- Providence

Country Name

United States

Region Name

Rhode Island

City Name

Providence

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Keywords

aerials, city planning, cityscape, highways, Capital Center, urban renewal, railroads, state house, automobile parking, Woonasquatucket River

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