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VIEW, LOOKING EAST, FROM ROUTE 6 (WEST END) - Union Station Viaduct, Spanning Gaspee, Francis, Promenade and Canal Streets, Providence, Providence County, RI
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VIEW, LOOKING EAST, FROM ROUTE 6 (WEST END) - Union Station Viaduct, Spanning Gaspee, Francis, Promenade and Canal Streets, Providence, Providence County, RI
Description
AMTRAK; New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad; Gagel, Edward; Federal Railroad Administration; DeLeuw, Cather, Parsons, contractor; Clement, Dan, transmitter; Owens, William, photographer; Barrett, William E, photographer
Depicted place Rhode Island; Providence County; Providence
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER RI,4-PROV,179-20
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: In the late 19th century the city of Providence began filling in its tidal basin and undertook construction of a new Union Station Complex. A viaduct, utilizing a series of box-girder bridges, was built above Francis, Gaspee and Promenade Streets on the north side of the new station complex.
  • Survey number: HAER RI-14
  • Building/structure dates: 1892- 1893 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1909 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: after 1983 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ri0360.photos.145785p
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