Rhode Island State House from Prospect Terrace Park

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Title

Rhode Island State House from Prospect Terrace Park

Description

The Rhode Island State House is made up of 327,000 cubic feet (9,300 m3) of white Georgia marble, 15 million bricks, and 1,309 short tons (1,188 t) of iron floor beams (wikipedia). The dome is currently the fourth largest self-supporting stone dome in the world. The building’s Beaux-Arts design came from the McKim, Mead & White’s office contemporaneous to the “White City” look of the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago. The State House contains magnificent Neo-Renaissance interiors by Stanford White. It is the jewel in the crown that is the Capital Center. (date of photograph is approximated)

Creator

Chester Smolski

Source

Woodward, PPS/AlAri Guide to Providence Architecture (Providence, 2003), 107.

Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford, 2004), 122-4 .

Date

1987-01-01

Rights

Rhode Island College

Format

Photograph
Photograph

Identifier

5137

Smolski Image Item Type Metadata

Building Style

Beaux Arts Neo-Renaissance

City

Providence

Country

United States of America

Creator 1

McKim, Mead & White

Creator 1 Role

Architects

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Rhode Island State House (Providence R.I.); Historic buildings -- Rhode Island -- Providence;

Region

Rhode Island

Street Address

90 Smith St. from Congdon St.

Theme

Historic buildings