Cranston

Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
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Eleanor Slater Hospital (Q5354388)
item type: hospital
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Eleanor Slater Hospital is Rhode Island's state psychiatric hospital with campuses at the John O. Pastore Center at 111 Howard Avenue in Cranston, Rhode Island and the Zambarano division at Wallum Lake in Burrillville, Rhode Island.

website: https://bhddh.ri.gov/eleanor-slater-hospital

Alex and Ani (Q16198810)
item type: business enterprise
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Alex and Ani is an American retailer and producer of jewelry located in Cranston, Rhode Island.

website: https://www.alexandani.com/

Auburn Theatre (Q43258616)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 553 Park Avenue, Cranston, RI 02910 (from Wikidata)

Cranston Drive-In (Q43258623)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater / former building or structure

Street address: 1400 Oaklawn Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920 (from Wikidata)

Garden City Cinema (Q43258630)
item type: movie theater / former building or structure

Street address: 151 Sockanosset Cross Road, Cranston, RI 02920 (from Wikidata)

Palace Theatre (Q43258634)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 1526 Broad Street, Cranston, RI 02905 (from Wikidata)

Rainbo Theatre (Q43258640)
item type: movie theater / former building or structure

Street address: 392 Dyer Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920 (from Wikidata)

Star Theatre (Q43258645)
item type: movie theater / former building or structure

Street address: 360 Dyer Avenue, Cranston, RI (from Wikidata)

William Hall Library (Q69525557)
item type: public library / library branch

Street address: 1825 Broad Street, Cranston, RI 02905 (from Wikidata)

Sheldon House (Q7493510)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Sheldon House is a historic house located in Cranston, Rhode Island. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1989.

NRHP reference number: 88001123

Edward Searle House (Q5345271)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edward Searle House is an historic stone ender in Cranston, Rhode Island in the village of Oaklawn. The house is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the state.

Arad Wood House (Q4783613)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Arad Wood House is an historic house in Cranston, Rhode Island. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built c. 1858 for N. Thornton, and is one Cranston's finest Italianate houses. Although it was built as a farmhouse, it was acquired in the 1890s by Arad Wood, one of Cranston's wealthiest businessmen, who operated a gentleman's farm of several hundred acres. The house was also later the first home of the Cranston chapter of the American Red Cross.

NRHP reference number: 88001125

Westcote (Q7987298)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Westcote is a historic house in Cranston, Rhode Island. This 1+12-story Greek Revival cottage was built c. 1843, and was originally located on Oaklawn Avenue before being moved to its present location. It was built by a member of the locally prominent Westcott family as a farmhouse, and is a well-preserved and little-altered example of vernacular Greek Revival style.

NRHP reference number: 88001126

John J. Moran Medium Security Facility (Q28446786)
item type: prison
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The John J. Moran Medium Security Facility is a medium-security state men's prison in Cranston, Rhode Island, owned and operated by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. The facility opened in 1992, and has an operational capacity of 1006 prisoners.

Rhode Island Route 37 (Q823249)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Route 37 is a state highway running 3.47 miles (5.58 km) in Providence County and Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. A freeway for its entire length, it serves the cities of Cranston and Warwick and is also a major east–west freeway in the Providence metropolitan area, linking T. F. Green Airport with Interstate 295. The western terminus of Route 37 is an at-grade intersection with Natick Avenue in Cranston. The freeway has numbered interchanges with I-295, Rhode Island Route 2, Pontiac Avenue, and I-95 before terminating at a trumpet interchange with U.S. Route 1 in Warwick.

Nathan Westcott House (Q6969409)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Nathan Westcott House is a historic house in Cranston, Rhode Island. This 1+12-story gambrel-roofed wood-frame house was built c. 1770 as a "half house", and extended about 20 years later, based on architectural evidence. The house was probably built by Nathan Westcott, a member of the locally prominent Westcott family, whose progenitor was among the area's early settlers. The house was later owned by the Joy family, whose homestead stands next door.

NRHP reference number: 88001124

Edgewood Historic District-Sally Greene Homestead Plats (Q28153415)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Sally Greene Homestead Plats is a residential historic district in the Edgewood neighborhood of eastern Cranston, Rhode Island. Bounded by Glen Avenue to the north, Broad Street to the west, Massasoit Street to the south, and the Providence River to the east, this area was developed between 1900 and 1963 as a streetcar suburb for middle and lower middle class residents on what was once a country estate. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

NRHP reference number: 16000787

Rhodes-on-the Pawtuxet (Q7320998)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rhodes-on-the Pawtuxet is a historic recreational complex at Rhodes Place, on the Pawtuxet River in Cranston, Rhode Island. Originally consisting of a series of buildings, including a stateroom, pavilion, and waterfront facilities, today only a ballroom and gazebo survive. The ballroom is a Classical Revival building designed by architects John F. O'Malley and Harry A. Lewis and built in 1915, after the entire complex, except for the stateroom and gazebo, was destroyed by fire. The stateroom burned in 1977. The gazebo was built c. 1880, and has long been a local landmark, with trademark Queen Anne scrollwork and turned corner posts.

NRHP reference number: 78000007

Rhode Island Route 12 (Q823173)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Route 12 is a numbered state highway in Rhode Island, United States. It runs approximately 17 miles (27 km) from Route 14 in Foster to Broad Street in Cranston.

Christopher Rhodes Greene House (Q5113130)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Christopher Rhodes Greene House is a historic house at 2 Potter Court in Coventry, Rhode Island. The 2+12-story house, with a matching stable, was designed by the Providence firm of Stone & Carpenter, and built in 1883 for Christopher Rhodes Greene, one of the owners of the Clyde Bleach and Print Works, located about 1 mile (1.6 km) away on the Pawtuxet River. The house features the irregular massing with numerous projections and window shapes and sizes, and a wraparound porch with porte-cochere. The exterior is sheathed predominantly in wood clapboards on the lower level, and shingles cut in a variety of shapes on the upper levels. The main, south-facing, gable peak has more elaborate siding, along with false half-timbering and a medallion.

NRHP reference number: 07000891

Knightsville Meetinghouse (Q6422576)
item type: church building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Knightsville Meetinghouse (also known as Knightsville-Franklin Congregational Church) was a historic church and meeting hall building at 67 Phenix Avenue within the village of Knightsville in Cranston, Rhode Island.

NRHP reference number: 78000074

West Winds (Q7987003)
item type: single-family detached home
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

West Winds, also known as the Burlingame-Quinn House, is a historic home in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The site was built c. 1740 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

NRHP reference number: 93000425

Rhode Island Maximum Security Prison (Q16899258)
item type: prison / human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rhode Island Maximum Security Prison, formerly known as Howard Prison, is a Rhode Island Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Cranston, Rhode Island. It is the state's oldest operational prison, with a current capacity of 430.

Thomas Fenner House (Q7789555)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Thomas Fenner House or the "Sam Joy Place" is a historic stone-ender house in Cranston, Rhode Island. It the oldest surviving house in the Providence Plantations portion of Rhode Island. The only older structure in the state is the White Horse Tavern in Newport. The house was built as a farmhouse in 1677 after King Philip's War by Captain Arthur Fenner for his son Major Thomas Fenner. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The House is available for short stays by those interested in the historical and architectural significance of the property. It also is made available to educational groups to visit and study.

NRHP reference number: 90000143

Potter-Remington House (Q7235244)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Potter–Remingston House is an historic house in Cranston, Rhode Island. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney, and a two-story ell attached to the west side. It is set on what was originally a 21-acre (8.5 ha) parcel of rolling woods and overgrown fields, adjacent to the Remington family cemetery. The outside of the house has relatively plain styling, but its interior public spaces include some elaborate Federal period woodwork. It is one of the few surviving 18th-century farm houses in Cranston.

NRHP reference number: 78000006

Edgewood Historic District-Aberdeen Plat (Q28153414)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Aberdeen Plat is a residential historic district in the Edgewood neighborhood of eastern Cranston, Rhode Island. Bounded by Berwick Lane and Sefton Drive to the north, Broad Street to the west, Chiswick Road to the south, and the Providence River to the east, this area was developed between 1901 and 1957 as a streetcar suburb for middle and upper middle class residents on what was once a country estate. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

NRHP reference number: 16000833

Edgewood Historic District–Anstis Greene Estate Plats (Q21197582)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Anstis Greene Estate Plat is a residential historic district in the Edgewood neighborhood of eastern Cranston, Rhode Island. The 34-acre (14 ha) area is bounded on the west by Broad Street, the east by Narragansett Bay, the south by Rosewood Avenue, and on the north by Marion Avenue, where it abuts the Edgewood Historic District-Shaw Plat. The area, originally part of a much larger property belonging to Zachariah Rhodes in the 17th century, was platted for residential development in the decades following the arrival of the streetcar on Broad Street, providing commuter service to Providence. The land was willed by Anstis Rhodes Greene to a group of heirs, who progressively developed their individual portions. The only significant surviving elements that predate this development are two small family cemeteries.

NRHP reference number: 15000497

Edgewood Historic District-Taft Estate Plat (Q5337900)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Taft Estate Plat is a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island that is bounded by Windsor Road, Narragansett Bay, Circuit Drive and Broad Street. The district represents the final subdivision of a country estate amassed by industrialist Orray Taft (1793-1865). It was laid out in 1904 and most of its residential stock was built between 1905 and 1930. The average size of the lots was 5400 square feet, although there was some variance in size, and a one-acre plot was reserved for the Taft mansion (demolished c. 1952 and the land subdivided). The houses are architecturally heterogeneous, reflecting all of the major styles of the period; some properties were designed by Norman Isham.

NRHP reference number: 03001069

Pontiac (Q7228208)
item type: village in the United States / unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Pontiac is a historic village in Warwick, Rhode Island, and part of the Pawtuxet River Valley .

USGS GNIS ID: 1218578

Cranston Stadium (Q5182268)
item type: stadium
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cranston Stadium is a multi-use stadium complex located in Cranston, Rhode Island. It consists of Magciacomo Field, a baseball field, as well as Stebbins Field, an athletic field suitable for playing football, soccer, field hockey or lacrosse.

Edgewood Historic District-Arnold Farm Plat (Q16890890)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Arnold Farm Plat is a residential historic district in the Edgewood neighborhood of eastern Cranston, Rhode Island. It is bounded on the north by Albert Avenue, on the east by Narragansett Bay, on the south by Columbia Avenue, and on the west by Broad Street. The district was primarily built out as a streetcar suburb of Providence between 1890 and 1930, and feature styles from Queen Anne and Colonial Revival to Dutch Colonials and two- and three-decker multiunit houses. Prior to its development, the area had been farmed by several generations of the Arnold family.

NRHP reference number: 10000733

Edgewood Historic District-Shaw Plat (Q16890889)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Edgewood Historic District–Shaw Plat is a residential historic district in the Edgewood neighborhood of northeastern Cranston, Rhode Island. It is bounded by Broad Street on the west, Marion Avenue on the south (abutting the Edgewood Historic District-Anstis Greene Estate Plats), and Narragansett Bay on the east; it consists of the properties that line the parallel streets, Shaw and Marion Avenues, and the short section of Narragansett Boulevard that runs between Shaw and Marion Avenues. On the north, it abuts the separately-listed Edgewood Historic District–Arnold Farm Plat. The area was platted out between 1867 and 1895, with the construction of most of its housing taking place between 1867 and the start of World War II, with the most construction going on between 1895 and 1930. The district also includes the previously listed Edgewood Yacht Club. In 1853, the 25 acres of land that became the Shaw Plat was sold to Allen Shaw of Providence for $3,660.

NRHP reference number: 13000120

Rhode Island Route 117 (Q823758)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Route 117 is a 28.4-mile-long (45.7 km) state route in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its western terminus is at Route 14 in Coventry, and its eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 1A (US 1A) in Cranston.

Rhode Island Route 51 (Q823261)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Route 51 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It runs approximately 5.4 miles (8.7 km) from Route 115 in West Warwick to Route 12 in Cranston.

Rosedale Apartments (Q7368160)
item type: apartment building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rosedale Apartments are a historic apartment house at 1180 Narragansett Boulevard in Cranston, Rhode Island. This U-shaped apartment block stands overlooking Narragansett Bay, with three stories facing the street and four toward the bay. The Art Moderne structure was designed by Herbert R. Hunt and built in 1939–40. It is a rare statewide example of a large-scale building in this style, and was one of only a few built in Cranston before the Second World War.

NRHP reference number: 07000301

Howard (Q5918885)
item type: human settlement
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Howard was originally a farming hamlet in the southern part of Cranston, Rhode Island.

Joy Homestead (Q6297150)
item type: museum / building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Joy Homestead, also known as the Job Joy House, is an historic house on Old Scituate Avenue in Cranston, Rhode Island. This 2+12-story gambrel-roof wood-frame house was built sometime between 1764 and 1778. It was occupied by members of the Joy family until 1884, and was acquired by the Cranston Historical Society in 1959. The house is believed to a stopping point on the first day's march in 1781 of the French Army troops en route from Providence to Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War.

NRHP reference number: 71000035

Rhode Island Route 2 (Q821372)
item type: road
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Route 2 is a 33.6-mile (54.1 km) state highway in Rhode Island, that runs from U.S. Route 1 in Charlestown to US 1 in Providence.

Lippitt Hill Historic District (Q6556946)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Lippitt Hill Historic District is a historic district in Cranston, Rhode Island along Hope Road between Laten Knight Road and Hope Road's junction with Burlingame Road and Lippitt Avenue. This area was settled by Moses Lippitt, who in 1735 built a Georgian farmhouse for his son Christopher. Christopher later (1805) built a Federal style house for his son William. These two farmhouses are the anchors of this rural district, which also includes a historical cemetery in which many generations of Lippitts are buried, and which features a unique heart-shaped planting of pine trees.

NRHP reference number: 89000142

Edgewood Yacht Club (Q5337929)
item type: yacht club
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Edgewood Yacht Club is an historic yacht club in Cranston, Rhode Island at 3 Shaw Avenue.

website: http://www.edgewoodyc.org/; NRHP reference number: 89000072

Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center (Q28446787)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center is a maximum-security state men's prison in Cranston, Rhode Island, owned and operated by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. The facility opened in 1985, and has an operational capacity of 1118 prisoners.