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Title
Aerial View of Fields Point in Washington Park, Providence
Description
Before Roger Williams Park (1871), Fields Point was considered the city’s premier park location and the site of popular restaurants and the Washington Park Yacht Club. Once a “bucolic landscape of rolling hills, quiet coves and shaded groves”, Fields Point was transformed in the mid-20th century into a sewage treatment plant and municipal dump. The Return Sludge Pumping Station (1934) at Fields Point was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. In 2008, Johnson & Wales University announced plans in conjunction with Save the Bay to build a public greenway on a quarter-mile of the shoreline at Fox Point.
Creator
Chester Smolski
Date
1983-01-01
Rights
Rhode Island College
Format
Photograph
Photograph
Identifier
5198
Smolski Image Item Type Metadata
City
Providence
Country
United States of America
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sewage disposal plants -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Aerial photography in land use -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Land use, Urban -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban renewal -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban beautification -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Urban parks -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Historic buildings -- Rhode Island Providence
Region
Rhode Island