What a place to go to school! Classes have already begun for nursing students from URI and RIC, with Brown moving in later this month. Kate Bramson took a look around the rehabilitated Narragansett Electric Lighting Co. building at South and Eddy Streets — now dubbed South Street Landing. While the students tried to deconstruct […]
Thank you Jef Nickerson at Greater City: Providence for bringing to our attention an article in Tuesday’s New York Times hinting at renewed interest in the Narragansett Electric Lighting House, the vacant brick hulk on Eddy Street. The so-called “Dynamo House” made the Providence Preservation Society’s 2012 Ten Most Endangered Properties List after ambitious if
Another entry from the Providence Preservation Society Ten Most Endangered Properties list — back for a second year — the 1912 Narragansett Electric Lighting House at 360 Eddy Street. To the east stands a long, rectangular block (turbine house, built 1925; boiler house, built 1917). These blocks both feature granite trim, tall, round-arch window openings