(11.17) The Providence Preservation Society has issued an advocacy alert. Can this glorious Victorian Gothic pile be saved?
Rhode Island Hospital will appear before the City Plan Commission to request the demolition of the the historic Southwest Pavilion. Located at the heart of the Hospital’s campus, the Southwest Pavilion was included on the PPS Most Endangered Properties list in 2010, and stands as one of the only survivors from the original Hospital landscape. Its loss would be devastating to the city’s sense of history.
The PPS website has details about the history and architecture of the building.
Begun in 1898 to designs by the Providence firm Stone, Carpenter & Willson, Southwest Pavilion was the third building erected in the Rhode Island Hospital complex.. . The red-brick, T-plan Southwest Pavilion was constructed to serve women and children—with wards for each and a playroom for the latter—and to house the hospital’s first pathological laboratory.
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City Plan Commission, 4:45pm, Tuesday, November 17, 444 Westminster Street, (directions)