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Armory District: Cranston Street Armory
Ebenezer Knight Dexter bequeathed this large parcel to the Town of Providence upon his death. In the 1840s, this was only a 10-acre tract for militia training. At the turn of the century it was supplanted by the new building seen today. It is by far…
Transformation of Capital Center
This image shows the transformation of Capital Center in progress. Francis Street construction is complete up until the over-passed train tracks and the bridge over the Woonasquatucket River. The former train tracks have been removed, but the land…
Portland: Street Scene
A street scene of Old Port, the historic waterfront district in downtown Portland, Maine. The neighborhood is popular for its waterfront views, galleries, and restaurants. As of 2016, this storefront located at 9 Moulton St is occupied by Mexicali…
Providence: Downtown
Downtown Providence in the early 1970s. Bovi's Records was an independent record store, owned by Bob Bovi, who was a contributor to the underground music scene in Providence in the 70s. He also ran a label called Bovi Records, owned another music…
Quincy Market
Faneuil Hall in Boston was expanded in 1826 to include Quincy Market, which was designed in the Greek Revival Style and later named after Major Josiah Quincy. The market became run-down in the mid 1900's, but was revitalized by Jim Rouse, architect…
Downtown Woonsocket (Aerial)
Downtown Woonsocket in 1979, featuring a view of Harris Pond and the Blackstone River. The Oak Hill Cemetery and the World War II Veterans Memorial Park can also be seen from the photo. Around the time this photo was taken, Woonsocket became the host…
Boston Landscape and Skyline (Aerial)
An aerial photo showing the skyline of the city Boston and the cloudy Quincy Bay to its right.
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
Apartment Building and Store in Mansfield, MA
An apartment building with a convenience store on its first floor. This fusion of living and consumerism perhaps exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing encouraged.
Milhaus Condos
The Millhaus at Mansfield is a condominium community near downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. Built in the early 1970s, the community exemplifies a stage of urban development in Mansfield when the town was being urbanized and community housing…
South of Boston (Aerial)
An aerial photo showing a housing subdivison located to the south of Boston, Massachusetts.
South of Boston (Aerial)
An aerial photo showing scattered housing located to the south of Boston, Massachusetts. The photo seems to overlook the town of Brockton, with Waldo Lake and Thirtyacre Pond at the top of the frame and with what is now the West Middle School at the…
Providence: Prescott O. Clarke House
This 2 1/2-story Tudor Revival house was designed by Prescott O. Clarke. Clarke was a principal in the architectural firm Clarke & Spaulding and designed the home for his own residence. The home was one of the first Tudor Revival houses in Providence…
Connecticut: Historic Saltbox House
A historical saltbox house in Litchfield, Connecticut. The saltbox style is a Colonial design that originated in New England in around 1650. They are characterized by having two stories in the front of the house and only one in the back, with a small…
Saint Basil Academy (Formerly Jacob Ruppert's Private Estate)
Jacob Ruppert Jr.'s private estate at Eagle's Rest, in Garrison, NY. After his death in 1939, the estate was converted into a school for at-risk children called Saint Basil Academy, opening in 1944. Long before Ruppert or the Academy, the property…
Rural North Carolina
Smolski described this as being part of the "rural slums" of North Carolina. In the 1970s, rural North Carolina was poverty-stricken and held the larger populations of African-American families. This photo is an example of the economic distress and…
Cornelius Vanderbilt II House (The Breakers)
The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1895 after its destruction in a fire in 1892. This home was originally a wood-frame house named The Breakers designed by Peabody and Stearns in 1877 and owned by Pierre…
Blackstone: Single Family Home in Winter
A single family home in the Blackstone neighborhood on Providence’s East Side, photographed during the winter of 1974. The East Side is the oldest, and most affluent section of Providence, containing some of the states earliest settlements.
Mobile Home / Camper in Cape Cod
A Winnebago RV camping in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A transportable residence, different from Smolski's usual documentation of permanent and non-moveable urban homes.
Bath: The Paragon
A street of Georgian townhouses in the city of Bath, in Somerset, England. The Hay Hill Baptist Church is on the left.
The layout of the city of Bath was established by John Wood the Elder from 1728 to 1775, where he and then his son, John Wood the…
The layout of the city of Bath was established by John Wood the Elder from 1728 to 1775, where he and then his son, John Wood the…
Street Scene in Copenhagen, Denmark
Example of a Copenhagen street scene, with a dairy shop on the far right and a wholesale agency next to it. The grey building on the far left belonged to the bicycle company Simonsen & Nielsen. The Danish movie director Jøneth Leth most likely filmed…
Royalton: Village of South Royaltown in Vermont
Aerial image of the downtown village of South Royalton in Royalton, Vermont from Interstate 89. Royalton is known for the Vermont Law School (Vermont's only law school) as well as being home to beautiful scenery such as the Kent's Ledge hiking trail…
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island and its harbor, in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat…
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island and its harbor, in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat…
Ray, Aerial Photography Pilot
Ray, the pilot who flew for (at least some of) Smolski's aerial photography.
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island and its harbor, in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat…
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat Island, and a…
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island and its harbor, in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat…
Massachusetts: Nantucket Island (Aerial)
An aerial view of Nantucket Island and its harbor, in Massachusetts. Nantucket lies thirty miles south of Cape Cod, and is approximately fifteen miles in length. The town of Nantucket includes Nantucket Island as well as Tuckernuck Island, Muskegat…
Aerial: Lake Ontario from Rochester, NY
A view of Lake Ontario and Rochester, NY in the early 1970s. Lake Ontario is the fourteenth largest lake in the world, and one of the Great Lakes of America -- Rochester, NY is often called a Great Lake City for this reason.
Willingboro Plaza
The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Acme,…
Levittown Shop-a-Rama
The Levittown Shop-a-Rama, originally called the Levittown Shopping Center, was a pedestrian shopping mall, planned and developed by William Levitt, the then-president of Levitt and Sons, a real estate development agency responsible for building the…
The Presbyterian Church in Willingboro, NJ
Pictured are two churches in Willingboro that are next to each other- The Delaware Valley Baptist Church, and the Presbyterian church of Willingboro. As of 2016, there are more than 23 different churches in the area that are accessible to Willingboro…
Willingboro Plaza
The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Sears and…
Willingboro Plaza
The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Sears and…
Willingboro Secondary School and the Levitt High School in Willingboro, NJ
Willingboro Secondary School and the Levitt High School in 1970. As of 2016, Willingboro has the Willingboro High School, the Levitt Middle School, one alternative education program school to include gifted and talented students, and five elementary…
The Delaware Valley Baptist Church in Willingboro, NJ
Two churches in the planned township of Willingboro: The Delaware Valley Baptist Church, and the Presbyterian church of Willingboro. As of 2016, there are more than 23 different churches in the area that are accessible to Willingboro residents.…
Willingboro Secondary School and Levitt High School in Willingboro, NJ
Willingboro Secondary School and Levitt High School in 1970. As of 2016, Willingboro has the Willingboro High School, the Levitt Middle School, one alternative education program school to include gifted and talented students, and five elementary…
Construction in Willingboro, NJ
In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…
Neighborhood in Willingboro, NJ (1/2)
In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…
Neighborhood in Willingboro, NJ
In 1954, William Levitt of Levitt & Sons, a leading residential firm, began purchasing property in Willingboro with the objective of building a residential community with few jobs and little commercial property so that the town's survival largely…
Willingboro Plaza
The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Sears and…
Residential Development in Worcester, MA
A residential area in Worcester, MA. An example of urban development and growth in Worcester's single family and duplex dwellings.
Main St. in Worcester, MA
Main St. in Worcester, Massachusetts. It connects to the Worcester Common, which is known for City Hall, the Worcester Common Oval, the Turtle Boy statue, and more. Up until 1993, the Worcester Center Galleria was also a part of the common. This view…
Main St. in Worcester, MA
At the intersection of George St. and Main St. in Worcester, Massachusetts. Looking down Main St. towards the Worcester City Hall with its notable clock tower.
Worcester City Hall, completed in 1898, features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance…
Worcester City Hall, completed in 1898, features aspects of the Italianate Renaissance…