A show of shrunken windows enframed in white vinyl siding, at a four-story red brick wall from the 1920s.

The openness of the parking lot makes the building easy to see.

 

This is in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Nowadays the building is occupied by Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, but it was formerly a furniture store.

 

Per my review of Sanborn fire insurance maps on the Library of Congress website and Woonsocket city directories at ancestrylibrary.com, I think the building was built circa 1925-1926: A frame Universalist Church building is shown at the site on the 1911 insurance map. The Universalist Church was most recently listed at this location in the 1925 directory. The P.O. Kane Furniture Company was listed here in the 1926 directory; it was later listed as "Carney's Inc furn[iture]." That building is shown on this 1950 insurance map.

 

On this occasion were present: a Ford C-Max Energi from circa 2013-2014; a Ford Transit van from 2015 or later; and the front end of a 2017 Honda Ridgeline.

 

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In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, on April 23rd, 2025, was the Beacon Charter High School for the Arts at 320 Main St, at the northwest corner of Main Street and Church Street, as viewed from the northwest corner of Main Street and Cato Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Providence (county) (1002808)

• Woonsocket (2095214)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

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• white (color) (300129784)

• windows (300002944)

 

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• 23 April 2025 (Q69307515)

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• Honda Ridgeline (Q1626665)

• Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q945854)

• vinyl siding (Q7932947)

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