Design By Miss Ray

BUILDING STUDY

100 WASHINGTON STREET, PROVIDENCE, RI

In 1926 Providence’s real estate tycoon, George C. Arnold built Providence’s thinnest building when he saw the neighbor's building walls were on his territory. The land would only allow the building’s width to be 12 ½ feet above ground but below ground it extended a bit further with the sidewalk that was punctured with glass bricks to allow for light to filter into the basement. The building was bought by Cortellessa Properties in the early 1990s and has since been left it to deteriorate.