Built 1893 Designated CP February 10, 1984 Phone +1 401-454-4835 Added to NRHP 4 August 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83000002 Opened 1893 Architectural style Renaissance architecture | |
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Part of Downtown Providence Historic District (#84001967) Address 112 Union St, Providence, RI 02903, USA Architecture firm Stone, Carpenter & Willson Similar Roger Williams Park, Roger Williams Park Zoo, Touro Synagogue, White Horse Tavern, Omni Providence Hotel | ||
The Providence Telephone Company is an historic commercial building at 110-116 Union Street in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Now a five-story brick, stone, and terracotta structure, it was built with three stories in 1893 to a design by Stone, Carpenter & Willson. The street level facade is limestone, with a three-part entrance bay and two smaller flanking bays. The entrance bay is partititoned by Ionic columns, and the smaller outer bays are flanked by Corinthian columns. A complex entablature of grotesquework separates the second and third floors. The fourth and fifth floors, added in 1906, are more simply treated, with a simple parapet at the top. The Providence Telephone Company, incorporated in 1880, occupied this building from its construction until 1917, by which time its rapid growth had outgrown the building's capacity.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.