Slide Title
Preview
Date
1-1-1977
Description
Charlesgate is one of several public housing projects, with a focus on low-income elderly residents, that were instituted following the first and oldest, Chad Brown. Many of these projects suffered from neglect and upkeep and were renovated by way of protests and pressure on the Providence Housing Authority. The area where Charlesgate was built is the same area of the historic Moshassuck (Randall) Square, where mills like the American Screw Company and the overall founding of Providence was once situated. The area suffered a fire and most buildings burned down in 1971, the ahistoric Charlesgate building survived however.
Building Type
Apartment building
Building Style
Functionalism
Themes
Urban Redevelopment
Subject Headings
Rental housing -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Functionalism (Architecture) -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban development -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Providence
Street Address
100 Randall St
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester, "Charlesgate Apartment Complex" (1977). Smolski Images. 968.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/968
Keywords
housing, elderly housing
Notes
Bibliography: Campbell, Paul. "A Community Apart: A History of Public Housing in Providence." Rhode Island Publications Society, 2007, pp. 257. Chase, David. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Moshassuck Square." Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1972.