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TE Between Dyer Street and Providence River Y N D . N H E D P N E R M T E S Mon.–Fri.: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. T O KE G P S T H S . R A A S D Y S U G N IR L T O T T As part of a Jewelry District Master Plan, a new park was conceived onE the N E E . N E T S O P E 2 P . K P S K S A I R E E T. westernC side of the ProvidenceN River — an open space that retains the memory A L T L T H P R S D IN . A NOLD ST. G NN O I L . C G F S AR S E G L S E T D P of the formerU location of the I-195 highway. Following the idea of a RISD A T I A H A S T S .

T . . . L R S S . T R T T . 1 S M student toT use the foundations Sof the former highway overpass in the riverbed . E T JAMES S Y L R S T T as the substructureA for a pedestrian. bridge, a competition was held to identify Y V G A . S W R D N AD I E T O C E R R . a fi rm to designD the bridge, subsequently leading to savings in demolition costs, R TRANSIT ST . B T. E N IC O T. S 8 S E H F G S while keeping a visible sign of the former highway location. R M IF IN T R D S O R . E T L T . . N C EN . D Irons and Russell Building P T S R C S T. 95 Chestnut Street A . . T. C A T DON S T T. T C E SHEL S T. R S H N S O VE S G E I M RO CharlesN Irons and Charles Russell, manufacturers of pins and charms, D S P P A B G O IL TN I I E V N A U H N I R L T Y N VcommissionedE the building in 1903–04 from theS prominent local architects O S S S T R T D T ST. S T . . NDEN O Martin & Hall. The building consists of six stories. with a fl at roof, a bent- B N For an online map, visit: WICKE T N . IE GoProvidence.com/JewelryDistrictTour

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T. T A F AV S . ST. RONG HTON striking exterior.T The prominent brown stone entrance carries the company’s B SHIP ARMST T 3 RIG K B name. It was oneE of the city’s fi rst fully electrically powered. industrial structures. E N ST D Y 4 3 IG In 2017–18, the Providence fi rm Durkee, Brown,AIN Viveiros & Werenfels turned W 8 D H S OUNT IN Y AY T T EST F S DW the building into. lofts, and in theW process, carefully restored its historical details, L S 18 OA Little Nemo Building S O T BR T such as the ornate birdcage elevator and terrazzo tiles. W . . . W S 5 222 RichmondM Street T ST T 7 CH H . E A RAN S . I T T R S C G SPENCER The Brier Manufacturing Company, the second largest costume jewelry maker T NU S O T T H A N ST. S H INGTO in Providence, commissionedU this building in 1928 from the architect Frank B. WASH 6 T. . A B. OTHERK POINT OF INTEREST T A R S R E T L CA 9 Perry (who would also buildT the Coro Building on Point Street the following HIR IN K L R S . O L T T P B . T N T. S S year) and occupied it untilA the late 1970s. Its brand name “Little Nemo” was O ER S A AD . R E E T Chestnut Street Methodist Church M N T B T I . S I N S inspired by the successful comicD strip by Winsor McCay from 1905 to 1926 in T M C E L S Corner of Clifford and Chestnut Streets B E E H Y the New York Herald. Due toS the success of the jewelry, Brier changed its name S R M S T T. S S R S . 17 I E O T . ST T D TMIN A S 16 T Formerly, a wooden Methodist church stood on this lot across from the . to the Little Nemo Manufacturing Company. The building is today occupied by WES B H N G . I P T D ST. M 10 A U E OCUM Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. Irons and Russell Building from 1820–1954. A major restoration project O SL P R S S A added a spire in 1836 (like many in New England, based on designs from E S T V R O . E 15 a pattern book by British architect James Gibbs of 1728), but it fell victim E IA H N . A 11 O

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W . STM T WE L H H . D. H U A . . 12 R A D T T T OO A M S YW R H S S OL T H R A E S N D T I T O A E S N R W . A.T. WallT Company O O S A S S 9 N R R N T T 162 CliffordA Street B T . . R S S C T T . Simmons Building . Ashbel T. Wall established a company for the production of gold-plated wire in 14 4 rented quarters on Sabin Street in 1888. In 1908, Wall was ready to enlarge 10 Davol Square his operation and commissioned Bowerman Brothers of Boston to design a Originally the main building of Doran-Speidel Building new manufacturing building. The four-story reinforced concrete structure the Davol Rubber Company, the 70 Ship Street with a fl at roof and large windows represents an important milestone in the Simmons Building of 1880 was history of modern architecture. It is one of the earliest known examples of named after Eban Simmons, the James C. Doran commissioned the building in 1912 to house rental units for a reinforced concrete construction employing the mushroom-column-and- grandfather-in-law of Charles jewelry manufacturing next to his headquarters at 150 Chestnut Street. It was fl at-slab technique. This mode of construction, developed by the American Davol. It is one of the most designed by Monks & Johnson, a fl edgling Boston engineering fi rm, who Engineer C.A.P. Turner in 1905–06 and patented in 1908, allowed for a freer elegantly proportioned brick adopted the structure and aesthetics introduced four years earlier at the A.T. fl oor plan than the traditional beam-and-column structure. buildings in the Jewelry District. Wall Building. The earliest tenant was the German immigrant Albert Speidel’s When the company expanded Watch Chain Company. After WWII, Speidel shifted production from chains Imperial Place diagonally across the street, a to extendable bracelet watchbands designed by Albert’s brother Edwin. The 10 Between Imperial Place, Elm and 12 metal conveyor belt connected so-called “Twist-O-Flex” design of the band was one of the fi rst brands to be Bassett Streets the two buildings. In the 1940s, 17 advertised on television in 1949. Coro Company Building an overpass above Point What is today called Imperial Place 1 Hoppin Street Malcolm Grear’s Studio consists of the buildings of the former and Eddy streets let motorists 391–393 Eddy Street A. OTHER POINT OF INTEREST Vesta Knitting Mills and Imperial Knife Similar to the Little Nemo Building by the same architect, Frank S. bypass the notoriously crowded Perry, or the Doran-Speidel Building, this manufacturing complex, intersection. The structure was built for a jewelry manufacturer in 1919 and Company. The Vesta Knitting Mills enlarged in 1926 when a baking supply company moved in. Kendall Manufacturing Company (originally Elba Woolen Mills) grew built in 1929, belongs to the type of reinforced concrete, pier-and- spandrel factory buildings with expansive windows. The Coro Since the 1960s, it has been the studio of prominent American 90 Friendship Street from 35 knitting, carding and spinning graphic designer Malcolm Grear (1931–2016), whose work machines in 1888 to 175 knitting Company (founded as Cohn and Rosenberger in New York) had 15 A parking structure for the adjacent court house today, this site long a branch in Providence since 1911, and subsequently became encompassed visual identity programs, print publications, machines in 1908, producing women’s, environmental design, packaging, and website design. His fi rm housed the headquarters of soap manufacturer Kendall Manufacturing men’s and children’s underwear. the largest manufacturer of costume jewelry in Providence in the Company. The prominent American feminist and writer Charlotte Perkins 1950s and 1960s. After Coro closed in 1979, the structure was (now led by his son) is best known for visual identity work and That same year, Vesta built a second designed logos for the Guggenheim Museum, Brown University, Gilman (1860–1935), who lived in Providence during much of her youth L-shaped factory, as an investment, to refurbished as a health care facility. and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design in 1878, made her Vanderbilt University, the Department of Health and Human house jewelry manufacturing. In 1916, Services and the Veterans Administration. income with the design of trading cards and the writing of advertising for Italian immigrants Felix and Michael the Kendall Manufacturing Company, and its fl agship product, Soapine. Mirando founded the Imperial Knife D. OTHER POINT OF INTEREST Her most famous work, the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” appeared Company to produce specialized in 1892 in New England Magazine. knives for jewelers. By the 1930s, it Point Street Grammar School had become one of the largest pocket knife manufacturers in the world. One Point Street Grammar School previously stood roughly where of its best-sellers was the Kamp-King the access ramp descends down to I-95 from West Franklin camping knife. Street. It was designed by local architect Clifton A. Hall in the typical Second Empire Style (similar to City Hall at the same Manchester Street Power Station time) and was opened in 1874 by Mayor Thomas Doyle. It 40 Point Street stood at the center of the growing residential portion of the The power station was built in 1903–04 by the Rhode Island neighborhood. In 1889, adjacent land was converted into 5 (later, New England) Electric Company, which supplied energy Hayward Park, while dozens of houses and another school for electric street cars and trolleys in Providence at the beginning were built on land south of Maple Street. The school, the park James Doran and Sons Building of the 20th century. The original, northern building with its stepped and its neighboring buildings were demolished in 1960 to 150 Chestnut Street gable was added onto in 1913 and 1933. A major renovation make room for the I-95 highway. James C. Doran and his sons James and Joseph, who specialized in jewelry in 1992 was led by William H. Warner, the architect of the 18 fi ndings (also umbrella fi ttings, collar buttons, emblem fi ndings, box-settings, downtown river relocation and Waterplace Park. South Street Landing and a joint-and-catch tool for making collar pins) commissioned the building 11 360 Eddy Street in 1907. Most space was rented to other small jewelry companies. In 1909, an eighth fl oor was added and the building was expanded to the south. The Phenix Iron Foundry The Narragansett Electric Company Power Station was built load-bearing brick walls are reduced in depth as they go up, “slow burning” 110 Elm Street in stages between 1912 and 1952. An excellent example of early 20th-century power plant design, it burned coal to heavy timber beams carry the fl oors, and fi re escapes have been added to The Phenix Iron Foundry had a national monopoly on producing machines provide electrical power to the city. It was gradually replaced comply with codes. The Doran family sold the building in 1966. In 1979 it was for dying, bleaching and print works, which supported the textile industry. by the more modern nearby Manchester Street Station and was subdivided into condominiums. Founded in 1830, it fi rst had a shop on the waterfront on Elm Street, which was decommissioned in 1995. From 2013–17, Brown University, the demolished in 1903 after having been purchased by the Narragansett Lighting University of Rhode Island (URI) and Rhode Island College (RIC) Sarah and Thomas Company. This machine shop of 1848 is 2 ½ stories high, with gables on both 6 redeveloped the station into a URI/RIC nursing school and ends and heavy random-ashlar walls. Perhaps most memorable are the three Doyle House administrative offi ces, with a new parking structure and the River round arch freight doors on each side, with heavy granite sills. The original sash 137 Chestnut Street House student housing structure (architects: Spagnolo, Gisness & windows have survived. Thomas Doyle (1827–1886) was mayor of Associates) on its southeastern corner. Providence for 18 years for three separate periods between 1864 and 1886. He built C. OTHER POINT OF INTEREST 16 the current city hall and founded Roger 13 Barstow Stove Company Williams Park. The house at the corner of 120 Point Street Davol Rubber Company Bassett and Chestnut streets, where he lived Providence Children’s Museum The wood and coal stoves produced by Amos Chafee Barstow in Corner of Point and Eddy Streets 100 South Street from 1851–1869, had been built in 1825 his Point Street foundry starting in 1849 were immensely successful by the mason Samuel Lewis. Doyle’s sister In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company occupied a The museum was founded in Pawtucket in and won several national awards, as well as a medal of merit Sarah (1830–1922), a noted educator four-acre campus of connected brick buildings, which grew from Written by Professor Dietrich Neumann of Brown 1977. It moved to its current South Street at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair. Before the end of the century and reformer, also lived there. She was a smaller structures at the intersection of Point and Eddy streets. In University and his students, including Will Collier, Nadim location 20 years later — a simple, 1926 the company was the largest stove company in New England, charter member of the corporation of the contrast to its neighbors in the Jewelry District, the Davol Rubber Silverman, Anjoli Carroll, Charles Taylor, Luke Camery, industrial brick structure with large metal frame employing 200 workers and offering 50 different kinds of stoves. Rhode Island School of Design and served Company was a pioneer of American rubber medical supplies. windows. Since then, more than 2.5 million The Barstow Stove Factory fi lled the entire 2 ½-acre plot. The three Isabella Olea, Catherine Nguyen, Barton Bailey, Teri as secretary from 1877 to 1899. She The company started at the Simmons Building across the street people have visited. The 8,000-square-foot brick buildings remaining today are: the oldest, gable-roofed Minogue, Nia Gallaway, Ryan Miller, Abigail Tisch, successfully campaigned for the admission in 1880 and remained in that location until 1977. In 1980–82, museum is full of sophisticated interactive structure of 1849 with a clerestory monitor; east of this, a four- of women to Brown University. In the 1920s, “Davol Square” was developed into a shopping mall, which later Hannah Van, Kate Talerio, Ciprain Buxilla, Grant Menon exhibits designed by museum curators and story structure from 1855; and a later structure at the corner of the house was used by a small company to closed in the early 1990s, followed by offi ces moving into the and Ryan Walsh. educators. Point and Richmond streets. The company failed in 1930. make jewelry supplies and fi ttings. space.