The Ontario Apartments are an historic apartment complex located at 25-31 and 37-41 Ontario Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The apartments were designed by Page & Page, and built in 1925 and 1927 by Harry Soren in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. The apartments consist of two three-story, flat-roofed, wood-framed buildings. The building at 25-31 Ontario Street was built in 1925, and forms a U-shape. 37-41 Ontario Street is to the west, is identical in detail but configured differently.[2]
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| Location | Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°48′0″N 71°25′11″W / 41.80000°N 71.41972°W |
| Built | 1925, 1927 |
| Architect | Page & Page; Soren, Harry |
| Architectural style | Mission/Spanish Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 98000214[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 5, 1998 |
These buildings are "well-preserved examples of early twentieth-century apartment buildings and are typical of ... apartment buildings in middle-class neighborhoods during the 1910s and 1920s." They were designed to appeal to wealthier tenants who did not want to care for single-family dwellings.[2] They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b Safdie, 1997
References
edit- Safdie, Joshua (1997) NRHP Registration form for Ontario Apartments (PDF)