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Still In Use:
1 Charles St, Providence
250 Esten Ave, Pawtucket
32 Branch Avenue
372 West Fountain Street
891 North Main Street
Apex department store
Atlantic Mill
Carpenter Mill
Chestnuts
Coro Building
Dryden Lane
Dyerville Mill
East Avenue Auto
Eddy Estate Carraige House
Fairhaven Mills, New Bedford
the George Arnold building
Greenville Mill, Putnam
Holiday Inn
Imperial Place
Jones Warehouse
Littlest building, downtown
Lincoln Mall
Louis Fink garage
the Modern Diner
Phenix Machine Shop
Poirier Diner
the Quay building
RI Tool / Greystone
Regal Plating
Smith Webbing, Pawtucket
Steeple Street
Teste Block
Union Station
Wanskuck Hall
Wanskuck Mill


STILL in USE {35 entries}

The properties listed below have, for the most part, not gone through any sort of renewal. Rather, they have been in constant use and have only teetered on the brink of decay in recent memory. And some properties here are worth having on the site, but have never been threatened by decay or neglect.

1 Charles Street
1 Charles Street, Providence
Built 1871 // Currently in use with a business called Textiles 2
250 Esten Ave
250 Esten Street, Pawtucket
Built early ?? // Currently in use for mixed artist studios and light manufacturing

32 Branch Ave
32 Branch Avenue, Providence
Built ?? // Currently on the market for lease, under ownership of the Groden Center

372 West Fountain Street
372 West Fountain Street, Providence
Built 1925 // Never vacant for too long, we think, and recently the focus of some attention and loving care

891 North Main
891 North Main Street, Providence
Built ?? // A small space currently on the market for lease or for sale

Apex department store
100 Main Street, Pawtucket
Built 1976 // Currently in limited use for retail

Atlantic Mills
120 Manton Avenue, Providence
Built 1863-1899 // Currently in use for studios, retail and manufacturing

Carpenter Mills
299 Carpenter Street, Providence
Built 1910 // Always in use. Once part of the Fruit of the Loom empire, now full of small work studios

Chestnuts
Corner of Chestnut and Pine Streets, Providence
Dunno much... help me out.

Coro Building
167 Point Street, Providence
Built 1929, and used for jewelry manufacturing until 1979; now used by Lifespan

Dryden Lane, for. Allen Printworks
27 Dryden Lane
Built 1830-1870 // In use as Providence Picture Frame Company and some small commercial spaces

Dyerville Mill
610 Manton Ave, Olneyville
Built 1835 // In use as State offices and light manufacturing

East Avenue Auto
East Avenue, Pawtucket
Built ?? // Cool 50s design, currently in use as a tire and repair shop

Eddy Estate Carraige House
159 Sutton Street, Providence
Built 1875 // Amazing ornate design, and in really great shape on the West Side.

Fairhaven Mills
Coggeshell Street, New Bedford
Built 1917 // Antique Mall to possibly become a Home Depot

George Arnold bldg
100 Washington Street, Providence
Built 1923 // Retail and commercial, known for being only 12 1/2 feet deep

Greenville Mill, Putnam
711 Putnam Pike, Chepachet
Built ?? // Mixed light industrial, retail, and small business spaces

the Holiday Inn / new Hilton
21 Atwells Avenue, Providence
Built 1970 // A shabby seventies version of a modern building, it got a facelift (of sorts) in 2006 and will be branded as a Hilton instead.

Imperial Place
14 Imperial Place, Providence
Built 1893, 1903 // A magestic group of buildings that were lucky enough to be one of the first mixed use conversions in the city.

Jones Warehouse
49 Central Street, Providence
Built 1895-96 // Been in business and at this location since 1896

Littlest Building in Providence
Corner of Clemence and Fountain Streets, Providence
Built ?? // Changed from a Dunkin Donuts to the Coffee King in fall 2004

Louis Fink
10 Ambrose Street, Providence
Built 1908-1918 // Currently a Jeep repair and parts shop

the Modern Diner
East Avenue, Pawtucket
Built 1940s // Still in use today as a great diner and a great example of a factory-made Sterling Streamliner dining car

Machine Shop for the Phenix Iron Foundry
110 Elm Street, India Point, Providence
Built late 19th century? // Brown University offices

Poirier Diner
for. Atwells Ave, Providence (Eagle Square)
Built 1947 // Moved to Westminister Street, Dec 2002. Still not up and running

the Quay building
146 Dyer Street, Providence
Built early 1800s // One of the few remaining waterfront warehouses, recently saved by Narragansett Electric

Regal Plating
85 South Street, India Point, Providence
Built 1940s? // Always been used as a metal plating facility in the Jewelry District... one of the few remaining working jewelry buildings

RI Tool
14 West River Street, Providence
Built 1861 as a rifle manufacturer // Recently changed hands and converted from light manufacturing to medical office space

Smith Webbing
1088 Main Street, Pawtucket
Built circa 1900 // The former home of Abaqus software, now available for purchase or lease

Steeple Street
3-9 Steeple Street, Providence
Built circa 1847 // Formerly the Congdon and Carpenter building, now restaurants and retail

Union Station
Exchange Terrace, Providence
Built 1896 // Revamped in the late eighties, early nineties from a working train/bus station for office and restaurant space

Wanskuck Hall
Branch Avenue, Providence
Built 1881-1882 // Part of the Wanskuck mill villiage, originally built for the workers

Wanskuck Mill
Branch Avenue, Providence
Built 1864 // Part of the Wanskuck mill villiage, now used for small businesses

 
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